ESM102/week9-201701/outline-links.html

Opening slide

Main points today

• large environmental projects cause problems in their own right
• three approaches that are used by environmental professionals (multi-criteria, project management and scientifice adaptive management)
• certain characteristics indicate the need for large approaches
• examples to illustrate these points

Loopback and preview

• week 4 - efficiency, extending to optimal projects
• week 5 - unintended consequences, big projects create their own problems
• last week - small projects
• next week - integrative solutions, looking at applying all the tools we've learned over the term to some examples

Week 9: Large Environmental Projects

Big projects are desired if problem is:

• basically big - obvious but consider both time and space scales
• crosses boundaries
• open system
• trying to fixing other big projects
• involve many diverse stakeholders
• require subsidies (from outside immediate area) such as taxes

Big Projects (not problems) may require

• Government action
  • financial backing or funding
  • taxes
  • legal standing
• institutions or hierarchy
• Environmental management approaches
  • project management (Oprimization of processes - Chapter11), Gantt chart for example
  • scientific adaptive management (Chapter 13)
  • multicriteria decision - many stakeholders (Chapter 15)
    • similar to techniques used in many disciplines
    • interest based bargaining
    • start with yes, begin with yes, improve "yes - and"
    • non-zero sum game
    • win-win negotiations

Examples

Green squares are what I plan to focus on in discussing the examples.

	BIG	BORDERS	OPEN	FIX	VALUE DIVERSITY	SUBSIDY
REDD Columbia		X				X
Everglades	X		X	X	X	X
Y2Y	X	X	X		X
CO2 - wedges	X	X	X	X	X	X
renewable energy	X			X
open ocean	X		X		X

• REDD
  • Forest harvest and carbon storage
• Everglades
  • background
  • map of project
  • fact sheet
• Yellowstone to Yukon
  • background
  • geography
• CO2 mitigation
  • wedges
• Replacement of fossil fuel with renewable energy
  • Economist article
  • Economist article 2
  • Lovins - Small is profitable
  • distributed - pay as you go model
• Open ocean fisheries
  • discussed this last term as a "common pool resource"