Introduction to Environmental Science and Policy: ESP 10

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100 AD
55 BC
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Current issues in the environment

• ESP 10
• Fall 2007

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What YOU need to know!

• http//www.des.ucdavis.edu/courses/esp10/
• You can get there three ways
• my.ucdavis.edu
• Env Sci Policy Dept page
• URL
• http//www.mhhe.com/arisHome/index.php

CC4-88-8B3
Practice chapter quizzes
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MYUCDAVIS provides websites for all courses. I
WONT BE USING THIS!!!!
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• ESP 10 Base Page
• Used for
• List course requirements, guidelines, grading,
  etc.
• Posting lecture notes.
• Posting announcements

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Cunningham and Cunningham, 4th ed. 1
Understanding Our Environment 2 Environmental
Systems Connections, Cycles, Flows, and Feedback
Loops 3 Species Populations, Interactions, and
Communities 4 Human Populations 5 Biomes and
Biodiversity 6 Environmental Conservation
Forests, Grasslands, Parks, and Nature Preserves
7 Food and Agriculture 8 Environmental Health
and Toxicology 9 Air Climate and Pollution 10
Water Resources and Pollution 11 Environmental
Geology and Earth Resources 12 Energy 13 Solid
and Hazardous Waste 14 Economics and
Urbanization15 Environmental Policy and
Sustainability
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The Book

• Lecture material will center around topics from
  book, but will not be from the book.
• I will assume knowledge of your having read the
  book.
• Test material will be primarily from lecture, but
  augmented from the book

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A book comparison
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Other important details

• Instructor Mark Schwartz
• E-mail mwschwartz_at_ucdavis.edu
• Teaching Assistant Kevin Welch
• Email krwelch_at_ucdavis.edu

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Class etiquette

• Out of class
• Email
• Office hours
• In class
• Cell phones
• Newspapers, iPods, etc

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Format of the Class

• Powerpoint Lectures
• Powerpoint pre-lectures / lecture ppt discussion
• All materials will be posted on the class website
• TAKE NOTES ANYWAY
• Not all the figures reproduce well in the lecture
  notes
• Taking notes reinforces information in your brain
  better than downloading webpages, printing them,
  and shoving them in a notebook.
• Environews break for the news
• Discussion I lecture. We discuss. We cant have
  a discussion unless you speak up. (Team points)

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On the web page
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My goal for you in this class

• Understanding your environment and the myriad
  ways that it affects your daily lives.
• Understand how to access information on your
  environment and the decisions that are being made
  about it (policy structure).
• Become a sophisticated consumer of environmental
  information.
• Consider focusing on the environment as a central
  component of your professional or personal life,
  no matter what profession you choose.

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National Public Radio

• Coverage of environmental issues is now daily in
  the press.
• Legislators are now expected to have
  sophisticated platforms on a variety of
  environmental issues.
• Virtually every profession has input into
  environmental policies, ethics, management.
• Americans remain under-equipped to deal with
  environmental information because of poor
  training in science.

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UC Davis
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Announcements
Please consider going to this talk, if you can. A
growing issue with the military and conservation.
Tuesday, Oct 2 Buehler Alumni Center
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GRADING

• Midterms 100 points each (2)
• Essay 50 points
• Final 200 points
• Team Points 50 points
• Total 500 points
• A 90
• B 80
• C 70
• D 60

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Test Points

• 2 midterms
• 100 points each
• T/F Multiple Choice
• Blue Scantron Form
• - 1-2 short answer

• Final Exam
• Dec. 17 610 PM
• T/F Multiple Choice
• Blue Scantron Form
• Plus 1-2 essays
• 200 points

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Essay

• Beginning in week 4, written assignments will be
  due. In order for me to consider what you write,
  I am randomly choosing 25 of you to have your
  assignment due each week. You may trade due dates
  with willing partners. The writing assignment is
  to describe to a lay audience one environmental
  problem of your choosing (suggestions below) and,
  in 1000 words describe the following (1) what is
  the environmental problem (2) why is society
  concerned about it (3) what is the current
  scientific understanding of the problem (4) to
  what extent is this a human-generated problem and
  how confident are we in that assessment (5) what
  are the policy mechanisms to deal with the
  problem (what laws, what agencies) (6) are there
  any large changes in the scientific or policy
  status looming on the horizon, and (7) what
  single thing could be done, in your mind, to
  improve the situation? You MUST address all 7
  issues to get full credit.
• Topic ideas Species loss, habitat loss, urban
  expansion, population growth and poverty
  reduction population growth and economic
  development air pollution, water pollution,
  pesticide use on farms, ozone depletion, ice
  sheet melting, global warming, sea level rise,
  extreme weather events. Can you pick a topic not
  on this list? Yes, but it has to be a general
  problem. I don't want a paper on sewage effluent
  in Napa, or the endangerment of California
  gnatcatchers. You can, however, take on the
  endangerment of salmonids, air pollution in Asia,
  or some topic that is regional in scope and falls
  within the scope of the major problems addressed
  in this class.

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Participation Team 1
people
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Team 2
billionaires
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Team 3
nuclear
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Team 4
End sp
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Team 5
End fact
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Team 6
sp on earth
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Team 7
newest mammal
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Team 8
o3hole
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Team 9
O3-warm
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Team 10
Warm 20
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Team 11
Warm 21
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Team 12
biofuels
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Team 13
Ca water
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Team 14
kyoto
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Team 15
Davis H2O
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10D Discussion
Discussion is NOT repeating content from
lecture. Discussion alternates between readings,
debates, and decision cases Topics will
generally follow lecture topics Schedule for next
week Week 1 Human population reading see
website
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ESP 10D --Discussion

• Please go to your regularly assigned discussion.
  IF you are unable to do so, you may attend a
  different section. Please notify the TA prior to
  doing so.
• You ONLY have discussion if you registered for
  ESP 10D in addition to registering for ESP 10.
• Discussion meets for 1 hour / week. There are 4
  scheduled because there are four sections.

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Other groups and discussions

• Science and Society
• Career Discovery groups
• Honors Section
• Mondays 210-300

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We will be starting with human populations as a
driver for our environmental concern