Spring 2025
ENS 202 - Natural Sciences and Policy J. Anthony Stallins University of Kentucky Dept of Geography |
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| Jan | 1. The world through body, mind and context: where science and policy begin |
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| Week | Day | Date | Quiz reading | Powerpoints | |
| 1 | Tues | 1/14 | Introduction Philosophy of science Scale and sampling |
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| Thurs | 1/16 | The Lost Norse (Science) | |||
| 2 | Tues | 1/21 | |||
| Thurs | 1/23 | Who Would Kill a Monk Seal? (NYT) | |||
| 3 | Tues | 1/28 | Birds Aren't Real or Are They? (NYT) | ||
| Thurs | 1/30 | Test 1 | |||
Feb |
2. Order, disorder and complexity: how conceptualizations of change relate to policy |
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| 4 | Tues | 2/4 | Ecological order and disorder Complex adaptive systems Resilience theory |
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| Thurs | 2/6 | Climate Change Forces Choices at National Parks (NYT) | |||
| 5 | Tues | 2/11 | The Game of Life | ||
| Thurs | 2/13 | ||||
| 6 | Tues | 2/18 | How Close Are the Planet's Climate Tipping Points?(NYT) | ||
| Thurs | 2/20 | Test 2 | |||
3. Human behavior, cognition, and the tools of sustainability policy |
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| 7 | Tues | 2/25 | Adaptive management Cognitive biases Game theory Models and modeling |
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| Thurs | 2/27 | Common Problems are Often Worse Than Realized (NYT) | |||
| Mar | 8 | Tues | 3/4 | The Evolution of Trust | |
| Thurs | 3/6 | Tit for Tat (Radiolab) | |||
| 9 | Tues | 3/11 | |||
| Thurs | 3/13 | Test 3 | |||
| 4. Sustainability as the coexistence of (all, most, some) life forms |
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| 10 | Tues | 3/25 | |||
| Thurs | 3/27 | ||||
| Apr | 11 | Tues | 4/1 | ||
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| 12 | Tues | 4/8 | |||
| Thurs | 4/10 | Test 4 | |||
5. The Anthropocene sciences: environmentalism and/or ecomodernism |
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| 13 | Tues | 4/15 | |||
| Thurs | 4/17 | ||||
| 14 | Tues | 4/22 | |||
| Thurs | 4/24 | ||||
| 15 | Tues | 4/29 | Prep day | ||
| May | Thurs | 5/1 | Reading day | ||
| Tues | 5/6 | Test 5 (8:00 - 10:00 am) | |||