Each lecture should be about an hour followed by discussion or presentation by research teams.
Lecture 1: Introductions and survey
- Purpose of course
- Survey of topics and activites
- Personal introduction
- Set the stage for the importance of "transdisciplinary" science
Activities:
- go through reading list
- who's read what already and in what context
- any other sources to suggest
- background on history of science, philosophy of science
- create a categorization scheme for environmental science and management
- discuss where you think your current project fits
- suggest who to invite to speak/ be interviewed
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Lecture 2: Paradigms and paradigm shifts
- Historical paradigms
- different views of why they shift
- Kuhn - burden of
- destined- like industry, alignment of external forces and context (Muir 2000)
- Muir, Diana 2000. Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in
New England. University Press of New England.
- limiting old paradigm (Primack and Abrams)
- What to do when you are in a paradigm shift
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Lecture 3: Current approaches (Alexander, Norton, )
- Null hypothesis testing (NHT)
- Information-theoretic (IT)
- Bayesian inference (BI)
- Scientific adaptive management (Norton)
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Lecture 4: Importance of interdisciplinarity
- Using a diverse set of approaches to problem solving
- Page - all problems
- Homer-Dixon - environmental problems and the innovation gap
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Lecture 5: Examples of research approach: Guest to interview
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Lecture 6: Examples of research approach: Guest to interview
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Lecture 7: Examples of research approach: Guest to interview
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Lecture 8: Examples of research approach: Guest to interview
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Lecture 9: Examples of research approach: Guest to interview
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Lecture 10: Short Presentations
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