directions for the resource kit:  goals and guidelines 

 

goals:

  1. overall: to gain a more thorough understanding of the issues in sustainable development through a comparative study of resource areas (fisheries, biodiversity, soils), of theories and models for resource management (natural science; social science), and of different types of resource management programs (technological innovations;  economically-oriented policies and programs;  socially-oriented processes and forms of participation; forms of addressing “root causes” of over exploitation of resources.).
  2. to have the class discussions support this goal by having students gain some additional familiarity with their resource area in which their group specializes.
  3. to have the resource group paper and the final exam develop this comparative study.
  4. to make the course website a useful resource for students in the class, even after the end of the quarter, as a source for materials for papers and grant proposals.
general guidelines:
  1. each of the three resource groups will focus on a particular resource
  2. each group will contain students from the Graduate Group in Ecology and the Graduate Groups in International Agricultural Development/Community Development.
specific guidelines: Each resource group will provide the instructor with an html file that will contain the following resources:
  1. three or four books that offer overviews of the particular resource
  2. eight to ten articles of studies of management of the resource to promote sustainable development
  3. six to eight web pages about the resource
format: For each resource, include a paragraph that summarizes its contents and contributions. Give a full bibliographic reference for the printed materials and the url for the websites.  

date: These materials should be provided by first meeting of the class that discusses the resource (with considerable flexibility for the first resource group and some flexibility for the second).

remember: In choosing resources, follow out your own interests. And keep in mind the overall course goals: What broader issues in the study of sustainable development are touched by the books, articles and websites? Are the questions of scale (temporal, spatial, social, political)? Are there data issues? What sorts of interactions of human and natural systems are being studied?

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