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• 2010 Announcements
• 2010 Weekly Sessions
  • Session 1 09.13.10 Introduction
    • ASU: Agenda/Rules of Engagement
    • UMN: Structure of seminar
  • Session 2 - 09.20.2010 Sustainability Science and Sustainable Development (Speaker: Bill Clark)
    • Speaker Bio: Bill Clark
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book
    • Supplemental Readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental Readings from Moderator
    • Supplemental Readings from UMN group
    • Supplemental Readings from other Participants
    • Video Recording: Sustainability Science and Sustainable Development
    • Presentations
    • Session 2 Short Summary by U Minnesota students
    • Summary of Session 2.pdf
  • Session 3 - 09.27.2010 Long-term trends and transitions in nature and society (Speaker: Robert Kates)
    • Speaker Bio: Bob Kates
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental Readings from moderator/discussant Ann Kinzig, ASU
    • Supplemental Readings from Princeton students
    • Speaker presentations
    • Comments (temporary location)
    • SHORT SUMMARY 3-PRINCETON.pdf
    • Video Recording: Long-term trends and transitions in nature and society
  • Session 4 – 10.4.2010 The human-environment system: A conceptual framework (Speaker: B.L. Turner II)
    • Speaker Bio: Billie Turner
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental Readings from moderator/discussant Elizabeth King, Princeton Univ
    • Supplemental Readings from Cambridge students
    • Speaker Presentations
    • Video Recording: The human environment system: A conceptual framework
    • Summary of Session 4 - Coupled Human and Environmental Systems
  • Session 5 – 10.11.2010 The environmental services that flow from natural capital (Speaker: Steve Carpenter)
    • Speaker Bio: Stephen Carpenter
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental readings from moderator/discussant Patricia Balvanera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    • Supplemental readings from Univ of Minnesota students
    • Presentations by the speakers
    • Video Recording: The environmental services that flow from natural capital
    • Session 5 Summary from UMN Students
  • Session 6 – 10.18.2010 Divergent vs. convergent development models (Speaker: Ivette Perfecto)
    • Speaker Bio: Ivette Perfecto
    • Ivette Perfecto's web page
    • Required reading- Perfecto and Vandermeer 2010
    • Supplemental readings from moderator/discussant Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Univ of Minnesota
    • Supplemental readings from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico students
    • Video Recording: Divergent and Convergent Development Models
    • Speaker Presentations
    • Summary of session 6 UNAM-CIECO student group
  • Session 7– 10.25.2010 Human well-being, natural capital and sustainable development (Speaker: Stephen Polasky)
    • Speaker Bio: Stephen Polasky
    • Required Readings from the Sustainability Science Book
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental readings from moderator/discussant Steve Polasky, Univ of Minnesota
    • Supplemental readings from Princeton students
    • Supplemental: Updated drafts of the Sustainability Science Book chapters
    • Speaker Presentations
    • Short_Summary_Week_7.pdf
    • Video Recording: Human well-being, natural capital and sustainable development
  • Session 8– 11.01.2010 Emergent properties of coupled human-environment systems (Speaker: B.L. Turner II)
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book (Speaker: B.L. Turner II)
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental readings from moderator/discussant Jim Heffernan, Cambridge Group
    • Supplemental readings from Cambridge students
    • Speaker Presentations
    • Video Recording: Emergent properties of coupled human-environment systems
    • Session 8 Summary from Cambridge Students
  • Session 9– 11.08.2010 Institutions for managing human-environment systems (Speaker: Elinor Ostrom)
    • Speaker Bio: Elinor Ostrom
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental readings from moderator/discussant William Clark, Harvard Univ
    • Supplemental readings from Arizona State Univ students
    • Beyond Market States
    • Institutions_ ASU Response and Discussion Questions.ppt
    • Summary of Session 9
    • Video Recording: Institutions for managing human-environment systems
  • Session 10– 11.15.2010 Worked examples of concepts in human-environment systems
    • Summary
    • Speaker Bio: Elizabeth King
    • Readings from the speaker
    • Supplemental Readings from Florida International University students
    • Presentations
    • Video Recording: Worked examples of concepts in human-environment systems
  • Session 11– 11.22.2010 Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainability (Speaker: Bill Clark)
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental readings from moderator/discussant B.L. Turner II, Arizona State Univ
    • Supplemental readings from Florida International Univ students
    • Video Recording: Linking knowledge with action for sustainability
  • Session 12– 11.29.2010 Metrics for sustainable development (Speaker: Steve Polasky)
    • Speaker Bio: Stephen Polasky
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental readings from moderators/discussants Luis Garcia Barrios and Omar Masera
    • Presentations
    • Video Recording: Metrics for sustainable development
  • Session 13– 12.06.2010 Core questions of sustainability science (Speaker: Bill Clark)
    • Required reading from the Sustainability Science book (Speaker: Bill Clark)
    • Supplemental readings from the Reader
    • Supplemental readings from moderator/discussant William Clark, Harvard Univ
    • Video recording: Core questions of sustainability science
• Discuss
  • Suggest a topic for cross-institution collaboration
  • Session 3 - 09.27.2010 Long term trends and transitions
  • Session 6 – 10.18.2010 Divergent vs. convergent development models
  • Session 9 – 11.08.2010 Institutions for managing human-environment systems
  • Session 12 – 11.29.2010 Metrics for sustainable development
  • Session 13 – 12.06.2010 Core questions of sustainability science
  • Session 7 – 10.25.2010 Human well-being, natural capital and sustainable development
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  • Session 1 - 09.13.2010 Introduction
  • Session 2 - 09.20.2010 Sustainability Science and Sustainable Development
  • General discussion on the course
  • Session 4 - 10.04.2010 The human-environment system
  • Session 8 – 11.01.2010 Emergent properties of coupled human-environment systems
  • Session 10 – 11.15.2010 Worked examples of concepts in human-environment systems
  • Session 11– 11.22.2010 Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainability (Speaker: Bill Clark)
  • Session 5 – 10.11.2010 The environmental services that flow from natural capital (Speaker: Steve Carpenter)
  • Sustainability Science Seminar Survey Feedback
• 2010 Administrative
  • Schedule of Sessions
  • Instructions for student teams: Cambridge group
  • Instructions to connect to video and general procedures
    • Instructions to connect to UM Connect
  • Syllabi from participating institutions
    • Harvard Syllabus - IGA-904
    • University of Minnesota Syllabus
    • Princeton Syllabus
  • Sign-up for cross-institution student teams
  • How to log into the class sessions remotely.
• 2010 Events
• 2010 Readings
  • Sustainability Science Book draft
    • Chapters 1.1 through 3.1
  • Sustainability Science Reader
    • Reader in Sustainability Science
    • Session 2 (20 Sept) Sustainable development and sustainability science
  • Participants' Suggested Readings
    • General readings (not associated with particular session)
    • Session 2 (20 Sept) Sustainable development and sustainability science