Environmental Planning

Schedule

On this page you will find the full schedule and links to the four modules, lectures, practicums and readings as well as all submission and posting due dates.


Readings include focus readings and (BR) background readings. Background readings are optional.

INTRO: OVERVIEW

Week 1:  Ecology for an Urban Planet

Lecture 1: Environmental planning in an eco-evolutionary perspective [Tues, March 29, 2022]
Objective:

  • Cities and urbanizing regions as hybrid ecosystems
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics and feedback
  • How the questions we ask define our search for solutions
  • Environmental planning and management: myths and paradoxes

Readings:

→ Alberti, M., 2016 Chapter 10. Cities That Think Like Planets: Complexity, Resilience, and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems. UW Press.

→ Alberti, M., 2017. Simulation and Design of Hybrid Human-Natural-Technological Systems. Technology| Architecture+ Design, 1(2), pp.135-139.

→ Folke, C., Carpenter, S.R., Chapin III, F.S., Gaffney, O., Galaz, V., Hoffmann, H., Lamont, M., Polasky, S., Rockstrom, J., Scheffer, M. and Westley, F., 2021. Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies. Ambio 50:834-869.

+ Pörtner HO, Roberts DC, Adams H, Adler C, Aldunce P, Ali E et al. Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. 

+ 2017 National Climate Assessment. U.S. Global Change Research Program https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/

Practicum 1: Intro to Practicum

Class exercise: Imagining the Future: Cities and Climate Change [Thurs, March 31, 2022]

Readings:

→ UERL Report on the State of Sound 2016

→ Driving Forces in the Puget Sound – Puget Sound Trends Report