Summer 2018: Sustainability Leadership

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Sustainability Leadership

Course: BIOL/OEAS/IDS 467, BIOL/OEAS 567 (three credits)
CRNs: 35510, 35861, 35874, 35855, 35856
Course title: Sustainability Leadership
Instructors: Dr. Hans-Peter Plag, Dr. Tatyana Lobova, Dr. Eddie Hill
Term: Summer 2018 (season 1)
Time: Mondays and Wednesday, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: BAL 2068 -- SRC 1009

NOTE: Make sure that your document includes your name and the title of the question set. In your answers, provide detailed citations of all sources you used to write the answer. Preferably, base your answer on peer-reviewed literature. At the end of the document, provide a list of the references. Insufficient citation or missing list of references will result in subtraction of up to 20 points.

Question Set 3

Answer five of the seven questions.

  1. What modeling approaches for different system classes are discussed by Köhler et al. (2018)?
  2. What are the main advantages of taking a systems theory approach to sustainability?
  3. Provide a simple sketch that explains risk assessment in a systems theory context.
  4. Why are some low risks often overemphasized and high risks almost ignored? Use Anderson (2017) as a starting point.
  5. Discuss the relevance of the “normalcy bias” for disasters and the recognition of trends that could pose threats. Use climate change, land use changes and/or extinction as examples.
  6. Why do anthropogenic landuse changes constitute a threat to the Earth's life-support system? Use Barnosky et al., 2012 as a starting point.
  7. What are the main processes that determine local sea level changes? Which are the processes that introduce the largest uncertainties for future local sea level rise? Use Plag and Jules-Plag (2013) as starting point.

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Please, submit the answers by e-mail to the two instructors. Note that your answers to the questions should be concise and in a scientific writing style. Please, include your name at the top and the questions before each answer. The answers have to cite the sources consulted in writing the answer and a list of references. Citations and Reference have to follow the documentation style defined by the Council of Scientific Editors, known as the CSE style. See SSF-Guide or the WISC page for more information on the CSE style. Examples of correct references can be found here.