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Mitigation and Adaptation Studies
Course: BIOL/OEAS 466; BIOL/OEAS 595 (three credits)
Course title: Introduction to Mitigation and Adaptation Studies
Instructors: Dr. Hans-Peter Plag and Dr. Tatyana Lobova
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Ms. Harmony Hancock hhanc003@odu.edu
Term: Spring 2017
Time: Mondays and Wednesday, 3:00-4:14 PM
Location: NEW ED BUILDING 1104
Note that all homeworks and other project documents (draft bibliography, draft paper, final paper, presentation) have to be submitted by e-mail to the two instructors and the graduate teaching assistant.
| Class | Date | Topic | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/11/2017 | The Challenge of Conservation in Times of Change | Class Page |
| X | 01/16/2017 | No Class | |
| 2 | 01/18/2017 | The Challenge we are Facing | Class Page |
| 3 | 01/23/2017 | The Holocene: A Period of Comfortable Stability | Class Page |
| 4 | 01/25/2017 | Entering the Post-Holocene | Class Page, Homework 1 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 01/24/2017, 8:00 PM |
| 5 | 01/30/2017 | Attempting a Diagnosis: Degradation of the Earth's Life-Support System | Class Page |
| 6 | 02/01/2017 | Attempting a Diagnosis: Ecosystem Services | Class Page, Homework 2 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 01/31/2017, 8:00 PM |
| 7 | 02/06/2017 | System of Systems View. What is the Prognosis? | Class Page, Selection of topic for student project and research paper due. See Topics for a list of the available topics. |
| 8 | 02/08/2017 | What is the Prognosis? Is there a Therapy? | Class Page, Homework 3 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 02/07/2017, 8:00 PM |
| 9 | 02/13/2017 | Knowing the hazards: Extinction | Class Page |
| 10 | 02/15/2017 | Knowing the Hazards: Ecosystem Services | Class Page, Homework 4 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 02/14/2017, 8:00 PM |
| 11 | 02/20/2017 | Knowing the Hazards: Ecosystem Services (continued) | Class Page |
| 12 | 02/22/2017 | Student Project | Class Page, Homework 5 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 02/21/2017, 8:00 PM |
| 13 | 02/27/2017 | Knowing the Hazards: Climate Hazards, Public Health, Food-Water-Energy Nexus | Class Page, Draft bibliography, concept and summary of project and research paper, due on 02/27/2017, 10:00 AM |
| 14 | 03/01/2017 | Vulnerabilities of natural and human built environment; Economy, Inequality and Injustice | Class Page, Homework 6 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 02/28/2017, 8:00 PM |
| X | 03/06/2017 | Spring Break | |
| X | 03/08/2017 | Spring Break | |
| 15 | 03/13/2017 | Developing Foresight | Class Page |
| 16 | 03/15/2017 | Decision-Making: Socio-Economic and Political Contexts | Class Page, Homework 7 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 03/14/2017, 8:00 PM |
| 17 | 03/20/2017 | Decision-Making: Human Nature | Class Page |
| 18 | 03/22/2017 | Decision-Making: Facing Threats | Class Page, Homework 8 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 03/21/2017, 8:00 PM |
| 19 | 03/27/2017 | Student Project | Class Page |
| 20 | 03/29/2017 | Student Project | Class Page, Draft research paper, due on 03/30/2017, 6:00 PM |
| 21 | 04/03/2017 | Developing options: Avoiding Adaptation or changing paradigms? | Class Page |
| 22 | 04/05/2017 | Developing Options: Resilience and Anti-Fragility | Class Page, Homework 9 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 04/04/2017, 8:00 PM |
| 23 | 04/10/2017 | Developing Options: Economy and Governance | Class Page | 24 | 04/12/2017 | Developing Options: Mitigating the Degradation of the Life-Support System | Class Page, Homework 10 due: Answers to questions for class, due on 04/11/2016, 8:00 PM |
| 25 | 04/17/2017 | Student Presentation | Class Page, Final research papers are due on 04/16/2017. Presentation due on 04/16/2017, 8:00 PM (for those presenting on 04/17/2017) |
| 26 | 04/19/2017 | Student Presentations | Class Page, Presentations are due on 12/18/2016, 8:00 PM (for those presenting on 04/19/2017) |