Lecture List

Natural Resources Conservation
NRPI 110
Humboldt State University
Fall 1997
Susan Bicknell

  1. Introduction
  2. Considerations of Scale
  3. Historical Perspective on Human Resource Use
  4. Inventory of Resource Problems
  5. System Model - An Analytical Tool
  6. System Model Theory - Charactereistics and Conventions
  7. System Model Application - Tragedy of the Commons
  8. Energy I - Sources, Flows and Transformations
  9. Energy II - Connections
  10. Geologic Processes
  11. Atmospheric Processes I - Climate and Weather
  12. Atmospheric Processes II - Global Climate Change
  13. Atmospheric Processes III - Stratospheric Ozone
  14. Atmospheric Processes IV - Air Pollution
  15. Water I -- Properties and Transformations
  16. Water II -- Global Hydrologic Cycle
  17. Human Health - Hazards and Risks
  18. Bioaccumulation
  19. Renewability and Sustainability I - Theory
  20. Renewability and Sustainability II - Application to Soil
  21. Lands and Oceans I - Terrestrial Ecosystems
  22. Lands and Oceans II - Freshwater and Marine Ecology
  23. Scientific Validity and Cultural Acceptability
  24. Worldview
  25. Population Biology I - Theory
  26. Population Biology II - Application to Humans
  27. Adaptation - An Evolutionary Process
  28. Biodiversity
  29. Vocabulary Review
  30. Review Questions