Reading Schedule
Natural Resources Conservation
Humboldt State University
Spring 1998
Susan Bicknell
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Natural Resources Conservation Humboldt State University Spring 1998 Susan Bicknell |
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Textbook:
The required text is Miller, G. Tyler. 1998. Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions (Tenth Edition). Wadsworth. San Francisco, CA. The reading assignment refers to pages in the required text (Miller 1998). The reading should be completed before attending class on the specified date.
Week of January 19
Introduction to Natural Resources Conservation
Considerations of Scale
Chapter 3, pages 50-56.
Week of January 26
Historical Perspective on Human Resource Use
Inventory of Resource Problems
Chapter 1 and 2, pages 1-49.
Week of February 2
System Model - An Analytical Tool
System Model Theory - Characteristics and Conventions
Chapter 3, pages 56-67.
Week of February 9
System Model Application - Tragedy of the Commons
Energy I - Sources, Flows and Transformations
Chapter 4, pages 68-89, and Chapter 15, pages 394-429
Week of February 16
Energy II - Connections
Geologic Processes
Chapter 16, pages 430-461, and Chapter 9, pages 234-257.
Week of February 23
Atmospheric Processes I: Climate and Weather
Atmospheric Processes II: Global Climate Change
Chapter 7, pages 156-201 and Chapter 14, pages 364-393.
Week of Mar 2
Atmospheric Processes III: Stratospheric Ozone
Atmospheric Processes IV: Air Pollution
Chapter 17, pages 462-487.
Week of Mar 9
Water I - Properties and Transformations
Water II - Global Hydrologic Cycle
Chapter 18 and 19, pages 488-539.
Week of Mar 23
Human Health: Hazards and Risks
Bioaccumulation
Chapter 10, pages 258-283 and Chapter 23, pages 618-632.
Week of Mar 30
Renewability and Sustainability I - Theory
Renewability and Sustainability II - Application: Soil
Chapter 22, pages 594-617 and Chapter 20, pages 540-563.
Week of April 6
Lands and Oceans I - Terrestrial Ecology
Lands and Oceans II - Freshwater Ecology and Marine Ecology
Chapter 5 and 6, pages 90-155.
Week of April 13
Scientific Validity and Cultural Acceptability
Worldview
Chapter 26, 27, and 28, pages 700-761.
Week of April 20
Population Biology I - Theory
Population Biology II - Application to Humans
Chapter 11 and 12, pages 284-337.
Week of April 27
Adaptation - An Evolutionary Process
Biodiversity
Chapter 8, pages 202-233, and Chapter 24 and 25, pages 634-699.
Week of May 4
Deforestation
Cities - Sustainability and Design
Chapter 13, pages 338-363 and Chapter 21, pages 564-593.
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