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Economics
of Sustainability ECON 412/612 |
5:15-7:45
M MAC 225 |
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with federal law and the policies of the University of Wisconsin, it is the
policy of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to provide appropriate and
necessary accommodations to students with documented physical and learning
disabilities. If you anticipate requiring any auxiliary aids or services, you
should contact me or the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities
at 465-2671 as soon as possible to discuss your needs and arrange for the
provision of services.
SOME DEFINITIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
and associated
very useful web sites
…meet
the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.
World Commission on Environment and Development, UN, 1987
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/and http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/
Act today with concern for the future for seven generations
Many Native American (in Canada First Nation) Cultures
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/multicultural/white mountain et al.htm
I have asked the people I work with at Interface to help me create a second industrial revolution because the first one is not sustainable.
Ray Anderson, CEO Interface and keynote speaker Sustainable Green Bay Conference 3/99
http://www.interfaceinc.com/goals/sustainability_overview.html
The future that is not sustainable will be
terminal.
Rocky Mountain Institute http://www.rmi.org/
...securing people’s quality of life within the means of nature
Sustain Dane, Madison,
WI http:/www.sustaindane.org/
Natural
capital: natural resources and ecosystem services that make possible all
economic activity, indeed all life.
Natural Capitalism http://www.natcap.org/
...do what is right, for our customers, employees, communities and environment
Tom's of Maine http://www.tomsofmaine.com/
Also check the new sustainability initiative at UW Madison
The gap between what we need to do to arrest deterioration of Earth and what we are doing continues to widen.
http://www.earth-policy.org/About/index.htm
Redefining Progress's Sustainable Econ Program works to develop
and promote creative, market-based policies that protect the environment, grow
the economy, and promote social equity.
http://www.redefiningprogress.org
EcoSecurities and ClimateBiz
announce the findings of their recent carbon offsetting trends survey 2008.
EcoSecurities - Carbon Offsetting Trends Survey 2008
Textbooks:
Brown,
Lester. Plan
B 3.0: Rescuing a Planet Under
Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. NY, NY: Norton. 2008
((Abbreviated LB below.) )
This book is entirely available on the web and, I expect, most of you have
already interacted with it in other courses.
Robert
Costanza , John
H. Cumberland, Herman
Daly, Robert
Goodland, Richard
B. Norgaard.An
Introduction to Ecological Economics St. Lucie FL: St Lucie Press 1997
(Abb. C) Costanza, Daly and Norgaard
are founders of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) http://www.ecoeco.org/ . This now available entirely on-line book and the vast
collection of web links, many to the new and very exciting Encyclopedia of
Earth, is our primary text book. You can
buy the book in a print edition but I strongly recommend working
with the web version for instant access to the very up to date web links.
Edwards, Andres. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Gabriola Island, CA: New Society Publishers. 2005. (Abb. E)
Also, while no book is required to support it, though the supplemental Senge et.al book below is very useful, systems dynamics perspectives and the social interaction tool of Dialogue will inform all aspects of this class. You can get a very useful economics-focused orientation to system dynamics (SD) from http://sustainer.org, especially SI Projects: commodities , http://sustainer.org/pubs/Leverage_Points.pdf , and, much lighter, SI - Dancing with Systems, and http://www.stewardshipmodeling.com which provide excellent links to many other resources. Among such resources http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/pubs/NatCapPrimer.pdf and http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/IGSD/IQPHbook/ch15a.html provide explicit SD-grounded discussions of issues related to the economics of sustainability. Also e-reserve readings numbers 1-3 provide useful perspectives on System Dynamics. An SD related assignment from electronic sources is included for each of the first several weeks of the semester and should be read and commented on in a one-pager as for all other text assignments. You are expected to include at least some SD perspectives, which can be borrowed or adapted from existing literature in most cases, in the personal project that serves as the major vehicle for documenting your engagement with this course. These sites will help you become acquainted with dialogue http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/bohm_dialogue.htm http://www.david-bohm.net/dialogue/ .
Supplemental Books: (Purchase is not necessary but you should become aware of these and other relevant books and other materials)
Barnes,
Peter. Capitalism
3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, Inc 2006 (Abb. PB) (Available in full at http://www.eoearth.org/.)
Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by
Nature. New York: William Morrow.
1997. (Abb.
JB) http://www.biomimicry.org/
. Though excellent, this book is a bit dated. Purchase is not necessary
but at least check the web site and reviews of this outstanding book and
essential perspective. This would be a wonderful book for your
library. Try to find a clean used copy.
Common, Michael and Sigrid Stagl, Ecological Economics: An Introduction.
New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005 (Abb. CS) Here’s a useful review
http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/172593218.html. (This or the Daly and Farley Book below are recommended for students with limited economics background.)
Daly, Herman E. and Joshua Farley. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications Washington D.C.: Island Press 2004 (Abbreviated DF below.) Daly is a founder of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) http://www.ecoeco.org/ . (This or the Common and Stagle Book above are recommended for students with limited economics background.)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin.
2005. (Abb. D) but not included in the "assignment table. This
important book will interest many of you and some of you may be reading it for
other classes. At least become aware of the book and the general outline
of what it addresses. There are many useful reviews of the book, one, in Science,
considers it one of the most important books ever written.
Edwards,
Andres. The
Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Gabriola
Island, CA: New Society Publishers. 2005. (Abb. E)
Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. New York: Viking. 2007 (Abb. PH) This Wiki, which is a real-time live version of the roughly one-third of this book that is its appendix, is all you need explore beyond a few reviews of the book WiserEarth: Community Tools for Creating a Just and Sustainable World (wiserearth.org).
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins
and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution. New York: Little Brown. 1999. (Abb. HLL) Purchase
not necessary: available in full at http://www.naturalcapitalism.com/ and
reviewed here (www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/pubs/Seville.Nat.Cap.html)
in system dynamics
perspective.
Hokikian, Jack. The Science of Disorder: Understanding the Complexity, Uncertainty, and Pollution in Our World Los Angeles: Los Feliz Publishing: 2002 (Abb JH) Purchase not necessary, but seeking out a used copy is strongly suggested for those of you unfamiliar with thermodynamics. Useful overviews available at http://www.losfelizpublishing.com/. Introduction and final summary chapter available on e-reserve as electronic reserve readings #s 4 and 5.
Ikerd, John.
Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense. Bloomfield,
CT: Kumarian
Press. 2005. (Abb. I)
Peter Senge,
Joe Laur, Sara Schley and
Bryan Smith, Learning for Sustainability. Cambridge, MA:
Society for Organizational Learning. 2006. (Abb S) Here’s a link to
continuing work in this direction Learning
and Leading for Sustainability with Peter M. Senge | GreenBiz.com
Topics to be covered:
Course Requirements (approximate
proportion of course grade allocated to this item = .x)
Class attendance and prepared participation with preparation and
participation regularly documented by writings, especially one-pagers; some
postings and responses to D2L on at least three days per week other than
Mondays, to avoid treating the class as if it were only a once a week episode,
and self reflections in your portfolio (explained next) (.4)
A course portfolio (which you
can accumulate mostly electronically, perhaps in D2L) documents all aspects of
your work. The portfolio should include
especially (.3)
And a formal, appropriately
documented, at least third-draft, research proposal - paper and class
presentation on appropriate aspects of your selected
topic. (.2)
(Undergraduate
maximum 12 pages, min 20 bibliographic resources; graduate minimum 12 and maximum 18 pages,
min 35 bibliographic
resources. Your paper/proposal
must be
properly
documented
[for the realm
in which
you
aspire to work
see
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ and printed
in an easily
read
type no smaller
than
12 point or 10 characters
per inch.
If needed,
supplement
your
proposal
with
an appendix
or appendices to elaborate
on issues you
are not able to cover
fully
in the allotted
page limits.)
Tentative
Schedule:
Week 1 (Jan 26) In-class activities
NOTE: The rest of this table is divided for each week into an Assignment portion and a Class Activity portion. In general, to help you avoid falling into the trap of treating the course as just a single weekly episode and to qualify for a grade of B or higher in the course, at least some of the assignments must be "completed" by noon on Thursday of the week for which they are assigned and posted to the Course D2L. Sometimes specific parts of the assignments are specified for "completion" by Thursday and sometimes not, but in general you must make several substantial postings to D2L and respond to several others' D2L postings before noon on Thursday each week. The remainder of the assignment for each week must be "completed" BEFORE class on Monday and at least a few of your one-pager reactions must be brought to class on paper and circulated early in the class. The proportions of your class work that you do on D2L or in hard copy, and accumulate with other materials in your course portfolio, are for you to choose, but you must do at least several, 3 or so minimum, activities in each mode each week.
Week 2 (Feb 2) assignment: Reading, reviews of texts, and one-pagers (some to be completed
before and shared on D2L by Jan 29
1. Readings: Try to find at least two
formal reviews for each of the Brown (LB), Costanza et.al (C), and
Edwards (E) books and find at least one review each for at least two of the
supplemental books: Barnes (PB,) Benyus
(JB), Common and Stagl
(CS), Daly and Farley (DF), Diamond (D), Hawken (PH), Hawken,
Lovins
and Lovins
(HLL), Hokikian
(JH), Ikerd
(I), Kuttner
(K) and Senge
et.al. (S). Make sure that (1) all the reviews are substantive -
not either written primarily for librarians about audiences the books might
interest or general interest reviews posted by readers at electronic
bookstores, for examples of less substantive reviews you will probably also
find -
and (2) that at least one of them is from a formal academic publication
accessed through Cofrin
Library data bases , this exercise will help you do this
Using Scholarly
Articles Exercise-Cofrin Library-University of Wisconsin Green Bay - Cofrin
Library - University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, and at least one is from a purely electronic but
document-ably credible, www, source. Try to find reviews that express at least
two different perspectives on each book. Be sure to read the system
dynamics (SD) oriented review of HLL available at http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/pubs/Seville.Nat.Cap.html
(click on http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/pubs/NatCapPrimer.pdf
for a clearer view of the diagrams) and include at least some reference to SD
in at least some of your overview one-pagers. In developing the overview
one-pager for each book, overview each book’s Table of Contents and preliminary
sections, such as Acknowledgements, Prologue, Introduction, Notes on Usage
("Resources" sections for LB and E) and documentation styles
(notes, bibliography, etc.) and "read"
(NOTE: In this course “read” means spend some quality time with and
produce a reaction (one-pager) to what you found in the time available. It does NOT mean r-e-a-d every word) each book’s first chapter and prepare at least
part of a one-pager
touching on each of the three primary books and at least one supplemental book,
based (1) on your reaction to the reviews of the book, (2) on having
spent 30 to no more than 45 minutes over-viewing each book in general and (3)
having spent no more than 30 minutes with each book's first chapter or web
site. Eventually include hard or
electronic copies of the book reviews and of your reaction one-pagers for each
book and a summary one-pager on your experience with book reviews and systems
perspectives in general in your course portfolio. Your portfolio and the
course D2L site will accumulate and document all of your work in the
class. Be sure to share some of
your work, say at least 3 or 4 one-pagers, and to respond to at least several
other's one-pagers on D2L by Thursday Jan 29 and to bring hard copies of at
least 3-4 different one-pagers to class.
2. Getting started toward a project over the
next two to three weeks
Edit, and elaborate on or rewrite the hand-written statement you prepared the
first night of class in light of this week’s readings. The ISEE web site, especially
its encyclopedia,
C and the Encyclopedia of Earth web site, LB (Plan B 3.0)
and E (The Sustainability Revolution), the resources and
annotated bibliography sections where available, should be especially useful
for this assignment. Turn that statement or subsequent revisions, or complete rewrites,
of it into a 2-4 double-spaced page preliminary proposal accompanied by a
preliminary bibliography of at least a dozen to twenty mostly scholarly or
peer-reviewed or, if books, widely-cited, potential sources (which need not be
retyped or otherwise processed from the electronic or photocopy form in which
they were initially generated). The goal
of this exercise is to help you get started on a project for this course that
addresses issues like those suggested by the questions behind the initial one-
to two-page, in class, statement. Append
any brief materials like book reviews, or abstracts of scholarly articles, that
you can find on several, and write brief annotations on at least half a dozen,
of the most promising bibliographic resources.
Exchange your proposal with at least two other class members with each of you making editorial suggestions and commenting on the other’s proposal and re-write the proposal based on that feedback. Get Larry's initials on one copy of your draft statement, that includes other student's comments, and take another, clean, copy of the redrafted statement and annotated bibliography to the Writing Center, CL 109, for assistance in rewriting it yet again and to learn about the Center and the help it provides. Call the Writing Center at extension 2338 for an appointment before you go there. While you are at the Center ask about suggestions and handout materials they may have on formal bibliographic and research documentation styles. On this topic also check Research and Documentation Online and include reference to your experience in this regard in relation to your career aspirations, and documentation styles common for such careers, in your one-pager on the Writing Center experience.
Start to prepare a "formal" self-reflective statement about your research topic
selection choices or process with the topic finally chosen clearly identified
along with at least some (5-8 minimum) properly (per your explained choice of standard formats) formatted and annotated
bibliographic entries and a preliminary draft timeline. Note: You MUST file
this statement and have it returned signed and dated by Larry by Feb. 23 and subsequently
include it in your portfolio to qualify for a grade of B/C or higher in this
course.
Include copies of and comment on papers in either electronic form (Word's
comment and track changes functions, in the Word Review Tab menu, is especially
useful for this) or hard copy of all iterations of your proposal and of your
one-pager(s) on the experience in your evolving portfolio. NOTE: Serious
work on the research project has been the weakest and most frustrating area of
work by students in this and others of Larry's upper-level courses in the past.
Thus, if you choose not to pursue the research project identification
activities as and when suggested above, and do not secure Larry's signature of
approval by Feb 23, either drop the course immediately or PROVIDE A WRITTEN
STATEMENT Indicating CLEARLY AND
WITHOUT ARGUMENT that you understand that you will be unlikely to earn a grade
above C for the course.
Week
2 (Feb 2) Class First part of class: share one-pagers;
dialogue review of introductory chapters of C, LB and E and the resources
and annotated bibliography sections of LB and E, and some (at least via the
web) of PB, JB, CS, DF, D, PH, HLL, JH, I, K and S in context of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
, http://www.rprogress.org/, http://www.stewardshipmodeling.com
and Sustainability Institute and other related web
sites with special reference to global trends and system dynamics, see
especially this climate
change modeling site . All
students are expected to participate in this and all subsequent dialogues on
assigned and optional reading, and, if you miss a class you MUST initiate a
catch-up discussion on D2L.
Second part of class; form interest groups among class members where possible and share preliminary bibliographic, including especially Internet and library database, leads among interest group collaborators or the whole class. Share one-pagers over-viewing texts and individual chapters in these groups and when relevant with the whole class. Continue discussion / overview of sustainability-related projects with emphasis on this region and globally.
Week 3 (Feb 9) assignment (some to be
completed before and shared on D2L by Feb 5)
NOTE: In this course “read” means spend some
quality time with and produce a reaction (one-pager) to what you found in the
time available. It does NOT mean r-e-a-d
every word.
“Read”
Chapt
1 of C, Chapt
2 of E, and Chapt
2 or 3 of LB, and prepare several one-pagers touching on each
chapter. Continue to explore some
of PB, JB, CS, DF, D, HLL, JH, I, K and S and examine Donella
Meadows' classic article on SD available at http://sustainer.org/pubs/Leverage_Points.pdf and prepare at
least one and probably two, three or four one-pagers on your explorations as seems
appropriate. (If you choose not to buy course books that are not
available on the web, seek book reviews, other, related, articles the authors
have written or web resources related to the books and write your one-pagers on
them. ISEE -
Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of
Earth are great places to start for this
alternative activity.) Finally, also
prepare a one-pager
integrating the issues covered by all of your reading and reflections to
date. Be sure to share some of your work, say at least 3 or 4
one-pagers, and to respond to at least several other's one-pagers on D2L by
Thursday Feb 5 and to bring hard copies of at least 3-4 different one-pagers to
class.
Continue to develop bibliographic and web resources focused around your personal interests. Look for brief overview materials related to your evolving bibliography especially book reviews and abstracts of scholarly writings like journal articles or overview materials from relevant web resources. Bring copies of, or urls to access, these overview materials and of your evolving bibliography to class to circulate among others who share your interests.
Prepare the statement referenced below to file regarding your research
topic.
Week 3 (Feb 9) Class
First part of class share one pagers on C, LB and E; dialogue review
of these "readings" with reference to related issues raised in
other resources as examples where relevant.
Share one-pagers on and discuss
perspectives from PB, JB, CS, DF, D, HLL, JH, I, K and S and Meadows'
"Leverage Points" article.
Second part of class: gather in evolving interest groups that started
forming the previous week and share your integrating one-pager and any others
of your one-pagers that seem especially relevant. After sharing your perspectives on reviewed
materials, share your bibliographic resources with others, presumably in your
interest group, who may find them interesting.
Continue discussion of sustainability related activities in NE Wisconsin and beyond and begin to define individual projects or internship possibilities in relation to those projects.
File a preliminary "formal" self-reflective statement about
your research topic selection choices or process with the topic finally chosen
clearly identified along with at least some (5-8 minimum) properly (per your
explained choice among standard
formats formatted and annotated bibliographic entries and a start on a
draft timeline. Note: You MUST present a final version of this statement and
have it returned signed and dated by Larry by Feb. 23 and subsequently include
it in your portfolio to qualify for a grade of C or higher in this course.
Week 4 (February 16) Assignment (some to be completed before and shared on
D2L by Feb 12)
"Read" C Chapt 2 through
item 2
Economics and Ecology Specialize and Separate, E Chapt 3, LB Chapts
5 and 4 or 6 and continue to overview / explore some
of PB, JB, CS, DF, D, HLL,
JH, I, K and S and write one-pagers as before. Pay
special attention to LB in relation to C chapt 1, the "Waste
Not" theme of HLL Ch 3, the "Waste Equals Food" theme of the
video The Next Industrial Revolution." As before, spend more time
with C and less on the other resources but do at least one and preferably 2 or
more one-pagers on other resources and on your evolving sense of our
subject. Be
sure to share some of your work, say at least 3 or 4 one-pagers, and to respond
to at least several other's one-pagers on D2L by Thursday and to bring hard
copies of at least 3-4 different one-pagers to class.
Week 4 (February
16) Class
First part of class share one pagers on
readings assigned above; dialogue review of these readings with reference
to issues raised
in other resources as examples where relevant.
Second part of class: share the current
version of the proposal you started the first night of class and have redrafted
based on classmates and Writing Center suggestions, and your one-pager on
the experience, within interest groups and possibly more widely. Schedule first round, prospective, research
proposal presentations for next three weeks.
Week
5 (February 23) Assignment (some
to be completed before and shared on D2L by Feb 19)
Read C Chapt 2.3 The
Reintegration of Ecology and Economics, E Chapt 4 and LB Chapt
8 and 7 or 9. Continue exploring
your choices of optional books and begin to explore chapters 3 "In the Gallery of
Global Trends" and 4 "It's the System" of Alan AtKisson's Believing Cassandra and JH
Introduction and Chapter 11 “The Thermodynamic Imperative” which are available on e-reserve and
check the Redefining Progress web site http://www.rprogress.org/
with special emphasis on their Genuine Progress Indicator http://www.rprogress.org/newprograms/sustIndi/gpi/index.shtml
and prepare one-pagers touching on each chapter and
Redefining Progress as before.
Continue to overview other books and read either http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/cloudy_skies.html or
http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/pubs/siclimate.PDF both of which
address public awareness of climate change in system dynamic perspective.
Start preparing an annotated bibliography
that will ultimately include at least 15-20 items, a related and elaborated
draft timeline on your research topic and a preliminary outline of the research
proposal / paper you plan to write.
Secure Larry’s signature on your evolving research proposal plan by the
end of class this week or submit a statement of your acceptance of a grade of C
or less for the course.
Week 5 (February 23) Class First
part of class; Share one pagers on readings assigned above and Redefining
Progress web site http://www.rprogress.org
with special emphasis on http://www.rprogress.org/projects/gpi/
Share relevant one-pagers on biomimic, thermodynamic or other systems perspectives including AtKisson's Chapters 3 and 4 and JH’s Intro and Chapt 11 followed by dialogue review of these topics.
Share one-pagers and dialogue review of continued exploration of other books and either global warming article.
Second half of class meet in interest groups and share / work on evolving proposals and bibliography. Perhaps move to computer lab to work on bibliography.
Week 6 (March 2) Assignment (some to be completed before and shared on D2L by Feb 26)
Read C Chapt
3 through part 3 Substitutability vs Complementarity…, E Chapt
5, and LB Chapts
11 and 10 or 12 and prepare one-pagers referencing each chapter as before.
Continue to overview other books and
prepare one-pagers as before and explore http://www.iseesystems.com/
(suppliers
of STELLA SD software) and http://www.vensim.com/ (suppliers of Vensim
SD software). Explore the http://www.sustainer.org web site and
especially the Commodity
Sector Project Model Reports and the Donella Meadows Archive
available there for examples of SD commentary and applications and prepare
appropriate one-pagers.
Week 6 (March
2) Class First part of class;
Share one pagers on and dialogue review of assigned readings.
Share one-pagers on and dialogue review of other books, SD examples and
software vendor sites.
Last part of class work on projects and bibliography as appropriate.
Note: See statements below about draft project proposal progress due March 23.
Week 7 (March 9) Assignment (some to be completed before and shared on D2L by Mar 5)
Read C Chapt
3,
parts 4 Population and Carrying Capacity through 7 Trade and Community, E Chapt
6 and prepare one-pagers addressing each chapter as before.
Continue to overview other
books and prepare one-pagers as
before, overview and prepare a one pager on "Designing an environmental
mitigation banking institution for linking the size of human activity to
environmental capacity" by Khalid Saeed available at http://www.csdnet.aem.cornell.edu/papers/Saaed.pdf Note. This is a large and complex paper. Please just try to
comprehend what it addresses and the way it suggests SD can be used to
"test" social innovations but don’t worry about reading the whole
paper.
Week
7 (March 9)
Class
First part of class; Share one pagers on and dialogue review of assigned
readings.
Share one-pagers on and dialogue review of Saeed paper and, later,
other books.
Last part of class work on projects as appropriate. Note: See statements below about draft
project proposal progress due March 23.
Week
8 (March 23) Assignment
(some
to be completed before and shared on D2L by Mar 12)
C Chapt 4, parts 1-4 through and including Successes, Failure and Remedies and E Chapt 7 and prepare one-pagers as before.
Continue to explore other books and begin to "play" with Vensim
which you can download from http://www.vensim.com/freedownload.html
and prepare one-pagers as before.
Note: Preliminary Draft Research Proposals / Papers, in
the form of a minimum of 12 scholarly bibliographic references annotated
regarding their citation history, which you can get from Web of Science, and
probable importance to your research proposal and identification of at least 10
other references you expect to use, based on included information about their
citation frequency, but have not yet annotated, an associated draft timeline,
and an outline of your final draft paper with comments from at least two other
class members, is due March 23. NOTE: If
you choose not to submit this evidence of work toward your research proposal /
paper at this time you MUST submit a statement indicating your acceptance of a
grade no higher than B/C for the course.
Week 8 (March 23) Class First
part of class; Share one pagers on and dialogue review of material assigned
above including discussion of your experience playing with Vensim or other SD
software.
Second
part of class, first share with appropriate class members and then turn in preliminary
draft research proposals / papers, in the form of a series of
"properly" formatted and extensively annotated, especially regarding
citation history, bibliographic references and identification of other
references you expect, based on indicated citation history, to use but have not
yet annotated, and an associated draft timeline, and a proposed outline of your
final draft paper with comments from at least two other class members. If you choose not to submit the expected
draft materials, submit a statement indicating your acceptance of a grade no
higher than B/C for the course. Students
failing to meet either of these requirements will be immediately assigned a
grade no higher than C for the course and will have no recourse for earning a
higher grade. Note: absence from class is not an acceptable alternative to
meeting these expectations as the material can be submitted electronically if
you must miss class.
Final part of class can be used for research if useful.
Week 9 (March 30) Assignment
(some
to be completed before and shared on D2L by Mar 26)
C Chapter 4, Part 5,
Policy Instruments and LB Ch 13,
prepare one-pagers as before.
Continue to explore other books and uses of Vensim, ot
other SD software, perhaps in your paper, and prepare one-pagers as
appropriate.
Week 9 (March 30) Class First part of class; Share one pagers on and dialogue review of C and LB assigned above.
Share one pagers on other books and Vensim or other SD software; continue dialogue in light of global warming and other planetary scale impacts of economic activity, and prospects for mitigation or other market adjustments.
Second part of class: Dialogue on applications of sustainability to individual’s real-life contexts. Schedule research project presentations for weeks 11-14 (Apr13 – May 4). Note: Draft of final paper / proposal must be brought to class April 6 for Larry to initial and to circulate among interest group members for comment and taken to Writing Center no later than April 7 in preparation for Final Draft which is due April 13.
Week 10 (April 6) Assignment (some to be completed before and shared on D2L by April 2)Explore optional books, SD software, useful web links, or issues arising from your research and submit one-pagers as previously, at least 3 by April 2 and at least 3 more by April 6.
Week
10 (April 6) Class
Share
one-pagers as indicated above and dialogue review of issues
linking to previous discussions and themes.
Further
dialogue about or presentations by those engaged with sustainability projects
in NE Wisconsin and by members of the class in relation to their individual
projects.
Schedule project presentations
for April 13 -
April
30.
Note:
Final Proposal / Paper must be submitted April 20 complete with a properly
formatted bibliography, based on your choice of format, and timeline to qualify
for a course grade of B or higher.
Week 11 (April 13) Assignment
Continue to explore optional books, SD, dialogue, or other topics of
interest and post a minimum of 3 one-pagers to D2L by April 9 and bring a
minimum of 3 others to class.
Portfolios with self evaluations of
work done to date and planned for the rest of the term due.
Include general discussion of work posted to D2L but do not include copies of
items posted.
Week 11 (April 13) Class
Share one-pagers followed by dialogue review linking issues raised back to previous discussions and themes.
Second
Part of Class: Project presentations as scheduled April 6
Week 12 (April 20) Assignment Continue
to explore optional books, SD, dialogue, or other topics of interest including
topics covered by class member’s projects and post a minimum of 3 one-pagers to
D2L by April 16 and bring a minimum of 3 others to class.
Final
proposal / papers due with properly
and consistently formatted bibliography and timeline due, with Writing
Center feedback on a prior draft, also submitted..
Week 12
(April 20) Class
Share
one-pagers followed by dialogue review.
Second
Part of Class: Project presentations as scheduled April 6
Week 13 (April 27) Assignment Continue to produce one-pagers on optional books or other topics with at least three completed and shared on D2L by Apr 23 and at least three brought to class.
Course Evaluation April 27. Attendance required or otherwise-earned course grade will be reduced by ˝ letter grade.
Week 13 (April 27)
Class
Dialogue
review of issues of interest to class members.
Course Evaluation. Attendance required,
Second Part of Class: Project presentations as scheduled
April 6
Week 14 (May 4)
Prepare one-pagers and
circulate in class as previously.
Final course dialogue.
Final project presentations as scheduled
April 2
Final Exam May 11 5:15 p.m.
Answer
to Final Exam question can be written in class or filed by D2L or e-mail by
7:00 p.m. Monday May 11.
DO
NOT USE ATTACHMENTS. Enter or copy and paste your answer directly
into D2L or e-mail body.
Final
Exam Question:
Review your engagement with the course and the products you produced in it and
discuss how you might or will continue to engage with issues at the interface
of sustainability and economics as you proceed through your education and on
into your life after graduation.