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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisites: Economics 41 or Statistics 12 or 13, and Economics 101 (may be waived with consent of instructor). Introduction to major ideas in natural resources and environmental economics, with emphasis on designing incentives to protect environment. Highlights important role of using empirical data to test hypotheses about pollution's causes and consequences. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of specific environmental challenges that California faces. Microeconomic perspective used, with special emphasis on incentives of polluters to reduce their pollution and incentives of local, federal, and state government to address these issues. Focus on measurement and empirical hypothesis testing. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Study of systematic changes of natural environment in the U.S. during historical time, with emphasis on interplay between and among natural factors of climate, soils, vegetation, and landforms, and human factors of settlement, economic activity, technology, and cultural traits. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Relationship of built environment to natural environment through whole systems approach, with focus on sustainable design of buildings and planning of communities. Emphasis on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and appropriate use of resources, including materials, water, and land. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisites: Mathematics 3A and 3B (or 31A and 31B), Physics 1A and 1B (or 6A and 6B), Statistics 12 or 13. Examination of physics of energy, history of energy development, and role that energy plays in our economy, particularly in transportation and power grid. Prospects for decreasing availability of fossil fuels and impact of global warming on energy development. Current and potential future government and social responses to energy issues. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Political Science M122B.) Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Recommended requisite: Political Science 20. Politics and policy of major global environmental issues such as climate change, integrating law, policy, and political science perspectives. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Examination of institutional and historical evolution of land use in U.S. Comparison and contrasting of how cities have evolved in different parts of U.S. and some recent trends in urbanization. Relationship of state-level land-use policies and politics and ways in which localities plan. Environmental, social, and equity aspects of different patterns of urbanization and likely trends into future. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Environmental planning is more than simply finding problems and fixing them. Each policy must be negotiated and implemented within multiple, complex systems of governance. Institutions and politics matter deeply. Overview of how environmental governance works in practice and how it might be improved. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Honors Collegium M119, Public Policy M116, and Political Science M139B.) Lecture, three hours. Examination of critical decisions regarding nuclear weapons, starting with President Roosevelt's decision to build atomic bomb and ending with current policies on containing nuclear proliferation and on avoiding nuclear catastrophe. Letter grading.
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3.00 Credits
(Same as GE Clusters M1A-M1B-M1CW.) Course M1A is enforced requisite to M1B, which is enforced requisite to M1CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Letter grading. M1A-M1B. Multidisciplinary Perspective I, II. Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Human effects on Earth's ecosystem and social and technological solutions to environmental pollution and overpopulation. History and ecology in lectures; laboratory exercises included in discussions. M1CW. Special Topics. Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisites: course M1B, and English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Examination of specialized environmental topics such as air and water, global warming, and feeding Earth's population. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
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