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Case Study: Agriculture and the Global Bee Colony Collapse (m41055)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: bees, colony collapse disorder, tipping points
Summary: A case study about colony collapse disorder
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 48.04%
Revised: 2012-05-02
Revisions: 5
Case Study: Energy and the BP Oil Disaster (m41066)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: BP Oil Disaster, complex human systems failure, Deepwater Horizon, environmental disaster
Summary: The BP Oil Disaster of 2010 is presented as an example of complex human systems failure.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 52.03%
Revised: 2012-05-02
Revisions: 5
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Anti-Environmental Discourse, Behavior, and Ideology (m41067)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: connectivity, normalization
Summary: In this module, you will learn about the complex connections that tie our modern lifestyles and the consumption of goods to human and environmental impacts across the world.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 62.51%
Revised: 2012-05-01
Revisions: 4
Sustainability Ethics (m41069)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: common but differentiated, Cornucopian, precautionary principle, remote responsibilities, Responsibilities
Summary: In this module, the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" is related to global environmental problems such as climate change and ocean acidification. The principal of the intergenerational social contract is described as the core or sustainability ethics.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 52.35%
Revised: 2012-07-05
Revisions: 6
Sustainability Studies: A Systems Literacy Approach (m41039)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: biocomplexity, carbon neutrality, closed loops, diachronic/synchronic, interdisciplinarity, lifecycle, metabolism and footprint, resilience and vulnerability, systems literacy
Summary: In this module, you will learn how systems literacy is tailored specifically to the understanding and remedy of environmental problems, and the ways in which it differs from traditional disciplinary approaches to academic learning.
Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 42.40%
Revised: 2012-05-02
Revisions: 5
The Human Dimensions of Sustainability: History, Culture, Ethics (m39378)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: adaptation, mitigation
Summary: This module introduces the chapter "The Human Dimensions of Sustainability: History, Culture, Ethics" in "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation"
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 56.81%
Revised: 2012-05-01
Revisions: 5
The Industrialization of Nature: A Modern History (1500 to the present) (m40821)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: biodiversity and extinction, externalization, instrumentalist
Summary: In this module, you will learn about the industrialization of nature by examining a timeline of global economic development and relating the concept of externalization of environmental costs to industrial development.
Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 65.88%
Revised: 2012-05-02
Revisions: 5
The Vulnerability of Industrialized Resource Systems: Two Case Studies (m41068)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: BP oil spill, colony collapse disorder, faust, sustainability
Summary: In this module, two case studies are introduced and our Faustian bargain with Mother Nature is discussed.
Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 59.60%
Revised: 2012-05-02
Revisions: 4
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