Course Details:

Instructor - John Rueter
Professor, Environmental Sciences and Management
email: rueterj@pdx.edu
website: http://web.pdx.edu/~rueterj/courses/esr102-201001/
Course studio (Blackboard):
CRN: 44657
lecture time: Thursday from 2 to 4:30
room: CH 53

Announcements:

Vocabulary 3 has been posted.

The quiz 2 preparation guide is available. This should help you prepare for quiz 2 next Thursday (Mar 4)

Vocabulary 2 has been updated.

 

 

Lab Details:

Lab schedule
You are required to be in one of the lab sections.
All labs are in SB2 149
102L section 1 - 2:00 PM to 4:20 PM Friday (Hannah)
102L section 2 - 11:30 AM to 1:50 PM Friday (Brian)
102L section 3 - 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM Tuesday (Brian)
102L section 4 - 9:00 AM to 11:20 AM Monday (Hannah)
102L section 5 - 9:00 AM to 11:20 AM Thursday (Tara)
TAs for the lab are:

Brian Turner (bcturner@pdx.edu)
Hannah McDonald (mcdonahb@gmail.com)
Tara Chesnut (chestnut@pdx.edu)

Syllabus, contains information about:

purpose of the course
learning objectives
reading assignments
online quizzes
quizzes
grading
student resonsibilities
student conduct code

Vocabulary lists:

vocabulary list 1 (lectures 1-4)
vocabulary list 2 (lectures 5 - 8)
vocabulary list 3 (lectures 9&10)

MP - framework
MP- Systems view
wiki - I_PAT
EofE - population growth
wiki - demographic trans.

Environment and poverty
Environment and health

MP - Values in science
MP - Choice and decisions
EofE - climate & health
EofE - water & poverty

Human energy use and sources: world vs. USA
Fossil fuel, CO2, and climate change

MP - risk and uncertainty
wiki - Fossil fuels
wiki - US energy use
wiki - Oil Reserves
wiki - Total energy consumption
EofE - Net Energy

MP - environmental accounting
EofE - Carbon footprint
EofE - Renewable energy
wiki - negawatt
other - genuine progress indicator

delayed until Tuesday

on-line mini-quiz 2

Water: resources
Water: Pollution
In-class quiz

MP - institutions
EofE - hydrologic cycle
EofE - water use
wiki- water pollution

sceond half of class - starting at 3:15 in classs quiz 1 (lectures 1 thru 4)
quiz1 prep guide

wiki - Agriculture
wiki - Green Revolution
wiki - Food vs. Fuel
wiki - Food security

Principles of Sustainabity
Sustainable food production
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wiki- Sustainability
eoe - Sustainability
wiki - Food Security
wiki - permaculture

Land use
Urbanization
Sprawl

eoe - Land use change
wiki - Urbanization
wiki - Surban Sprawl
eoe - Smart Growth

integrated management:
uncertainty and risk of different scenarios

MP - Uncertainty and Risk
MEA - Millenium ecosystem assessment (pages vi, 1 thru 7, 72 thru 74)
MP - Games