Environmental Science Policy and Management

Course details the fulfillment of human needs through forest operations, coupled with the management required to make operations culturally and environmentally appropriate. The framework for understanding human interaction within forested environments includes the operational mesh of technical, financial, organizational, legal, and ecological factors. The worldwide range of stewardship activities studies includes access, product harvest, tree tending, regeneration, and protection

Covers the basics of how wildfires behave at the interface of homes and wildlands. Included are the interactions between vegetation and structural fires, the relationship of fires with different kinds of biomass, modeling fire behavior given different development and vegetation scenarios, impacts on air quality, and case studies from around the globe.

Fundamentals of wildland fire including fire behavior modeling, fire history methods, prescribed fire techniques, fire ecology, fire management, fire in the urban-wildland intermix, wildland fire, and ecosystem sustainability. Laboratories on inventory methods, fire history, modeling of fire behavior and risk, and prescribed burning

An introduction to air pollution and the chemistry of earth's atmosphere. The fundamental natural processes controlling trace gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and how anthropogenic activity has affected those processes at the local, regional, and global scales. Specific topics include stratospheric ozone depletion, increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, smog, and changes in the oxidation capacity of the troposphere.

Students are teaching fellows in local schools or environmental education organizations. Students develop and present an environmental science curriculum, and mentor students in 178A. Includes classroom management, lesson planning, presentation skills, and readings in environmental education. Units vary depending on hours committed.

Introduces theories of cognitive development and the practices of curriculum design and lesson presentation for environmental education. Ecology and natural resource management provide the context of curriculum development. Students create lesson plans integrating core concepts and their knowledge of local environmental issues. Lessons are presented to Bay Area high school and middle school students in field and classroom settings

This course introduces the concepts and principles of photogrammetry and remote sensing, specifically aerial photography, as important data collection and analysis tools for natural resources management in spatial sciences such as ecology, geography, geology, civil engineering, and environmental design. Photo measures of scale, area, and object height, flight planning, an introduction to the electromagnetic spectrum, photo interpretation and mapping, digital remote sensing, and data management in geographic information systems will be discussed.

The dynamics of international politics are examined over the last 25 years. Attention is paid to different perspectives in global environmental politics, the actors involved, how well international agreements address the problems they are supposed to solve, and the main debates in the field, including trade-environmental conflicts, security, and environmental justice issues. Issues covered vary, but may include climate change, biodiversity, population, and toxics.

Analysis of environmental problems in an international context with a focus on political and economic processes, resource access, and representations of nature. Discussion of the ways in which film, literature, and the news media reflect and influence environmental politics. Approaches to policy analysis arising from recent social theory.

Impact of environmental alterations resulting from development programs and other human activities which affect the health of people in developed and less developed parts of the world. Case studies and mitigation measures of diseases associated with water storage utilization.