EESA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Resource Depletion, Easter Island, Biocapacity
16 Sep 2016
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Office hours: mondays 1:30- 2:30pm & wednesday 3:30- 4:30 pm and by appointment, where available. Course is meant to give broad ideas about environmental science. Labs start in the second week of class. If you have an questions about any course content then post on blackboard instead of the professor. All course materials can be found on blackboard, including assignments, due dates, and your grades. All late assignments receive a mark of zero. 4 laboratory assignments worth 10% each: 40% of final mark. Mid- term: 20% of final mark (~60 multiple choice) Final exam: 40% of final mark (~100 multiple choice) Make sure you are sending it from your student email and has included the course code as the title. Any course material is fair game for tests and exam (lecture, textbook, tutorial material) Concept proposed by garrett hardin (ecologist from ucsb) in 1968. Resource users are tempted to increase use until the resource is gone.
