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1.00 Credits
This course teaches skills and strategies to make the writing process less intimidating and written work more clear and powerful. Comprised of online writing modules that provide examples of excellent nonfiction writing with the goal of identifying what makes the writing successful. Students develop and sharpen their own writing skills through incorporating feedback from a series of drafts. Student writing is reviewed in various forums-including writing workshops, peer reviews, and teacher conferences-to provide detailed feedback, allowing students to rethink and revise their writing. For DEL-MEM students only. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Reynolds
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3.00 Credits
Environmental management is pursued at increasingly larger spatial scales. As a direct consequence, we encounter more spatial heterogeneity and logistical constraints on empirical approaches. The field of landscape ecology specifically addresses issues of spatial scale and heterogeneity as these influence our ecological understanding and management of natural and seminatural systems. This course is an applications-driven survey of common tasks in landscape management, including inventory and monitoring programs and prioritizing sites according to various criteria (e.g., diversity hotspots, environmental impacts). Specific applications emphasize ecosystem processes (productivity, hydrology) and conservation planning at large scales. To address the uncertainty that naturally attends these applications, the course is developed in the framework of adaptive management. For Duke Environmental Leadership-Master of Environmental Management students only. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Urban
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3.00 Credits
In environmental management, things don't always turn out as expected. You must address multiple goals, even when those goals themselves conflict. You must respond to diverse stakeholders, with varying worldviews. The tools of decision analysis help you to - going beyond unaided intuition - organize and analyze difficult environmental management decisions. This course covers quantitative methods for analyzing environmental problems involving uncertainty and multiple, conflicting objectives. Topics include subjective probability, utility, value of information, and multiattribute methods. Students will apply these tools to an environmental policy decision in a group or individual project. For DEL-MEM students only. Instructor: Maguire
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3.00 Credits
Businesses are increasingly applying strategic management tools to incorporate considerations of sustainability into decision-making and operations. While some businesses incorporate sustainable practices because of an ethical conviction to do well for the environment, most businesses are motivated to do so to address pressures from stakeholders such as regulators, shareholders, customers and neighbors and to exploit knowledge and expertise for long-term competitive advantage. This course focuses on the development and implementation of strategies to promote environmental sustainability. Students examine roles and responsibilities of sustainable strategic managers and learn how to apply the tools of strategic management, such as external analysis, forecasting and stakeholder management to problems of sustainability. Business case studies are critical component to this course. For DEL-MEM students only Instructor: Gallagher
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1.00 Credits
Developing, maintaining and sharing high-quality information is one of the fastest growing challenges in the field of environmental management. Environmental researchers and managers are both the developers and consumers of extensive geographic data, imagery and statistical archives. Environmental managers now must meet expectations of real-time data sharing across widely distributed projects within detailed data assurance standards. In order to meet these challenges, managers must understand complex relational databases, internet-based data delivery systems, and international metadata standards. This course focuses on essential issues of database development, delivery and maintenance for environmental managers. The course highlights new developments in digital data archives, internet map servers and collaborative programs, and uses emerging projects, protocols and current case studies to demonstrate good management choices, strategies and evaluation processes. Instructor: Halpin
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1.00 Credits
This course will provide students with a broad overview of why and how we use energy, the complex system that has evolved for furnishing energy, the challenges that our energy use has spawned, specifically with respect to the environment, and possible paths to a sustainable energy future. The course is designed to give students a framework for thinking about why energy-related events are happening, what that means for future energy uses and societal well-being, and how we might change the system moving forward. For DEL-MEM students only. Instructor consent required. Instructor: Pratson
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1.00 Credits
This course will provide students with a broad, policy-relevant overview of contemporary scientific understanding of climate change. The recently-released IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) titled `Climate Change 2007' will provide the framework for discussion of various aspects of climate change, including the fundamental physical science basis, potential impacts and vulnerability, and mitigation of climate change. For DEL-MEM students only. Instructor consent required. Instructor: Kasibhatla
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1.00 Credits
California has long been the poster child for conflict over water management and appropriation. Much of that conflict has focused on the diversion of water from the Sierra Nevada and the Great Central Valley. In this 5-day field course we will provide an overview of the hydrology and history of water development of the Central Valley, and focus on three case studies: Hetch Hetchy, the Californian Aquaduct, and the re-watering of the San Joaquin River. For DEL-MEM students only. Instructor consent required. Instructor: Christensen and Hinton
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1.00 Credits
This course will address the following seven questions: 1) What is entreperneurship? 2) What is sociol entreperneurship? 3) What is environmental entrepreneurship? 4) What differentiates an idea from an opportunity? 5) Is climate/environmental change a source of entreperneurial opportunity? 6) Is market failure a source of entrepreneurial opportunity? 7) Are others' waste products a source of entrepreneurial opportunity? Students will craft an executive summary for a business model that will pursue a viable opportunity for environmental entrepreneurship. One credit. For DEL-MEM students only. Instructor: Archer
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2.00 Credits
In this 5-day field course we will provide an overview of international sustainable development in Chile, while focusing on environmental management at the government level, sustainable forestry, fisheries, and wineries, and eco-tourism. Two credits. For DEL-MEM students only. Instructor: Gallagher and Healy
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