ESM102/week8-201701/outline-links.html

Opening slide

Main points today

• benefits of local solutions
• how to know when you need a big solution
• examples of local solutions

Loopback and preview

Week 8: Local Solutions to Environmental Problems

Risks and Benefits of Local Solutions

• grass roots identification and action
• engagement -good environmental stewardship leads to good governance
• small projects and trials have less risk - PP vs CBA
• multiplier effect on local economy - example

Limits to local solutions

• open system - inflow and outflow are large or dominate - hydrologic cycle
• the problems may be bigger than we think - local solutions might be too small of a response
• border or boundary issues
• political will
  • democracy and science
  • people basically don't agree - review of underlying world vies
  • people will follow rules if they agree with them
• subsidies needed from the larger economy
• necessary but not sufficient - biodiversity

Examples

• suggested by class
• food production, distribution, security
• transit (parking, etc) is inherently local
  • smart growth and urbanization (see the description of the factors that lead to sprawl)
• use of renewable energy, distribution
  • PacifiCorp - energy sharing community
  • use search engine to find examples of "smart microgrid"
• smart city design for transit vs. sprawl
  • transition PDX
  • transitionnetwork.org
  • these are like you are using in lab
  • examples from street to neighborhood to small cities