printer friendly pageENVRES 202: Transforming Clean Energy System and the Services They Enable
This project-based course focuses on innovation to accelerate the transformation of energy systems. Students will address challenges at the nexus of energy and water, energy and IT, energy and food, and off-grid services. Teams will develop well-defined problem statements, a thesis and solution pathway, and conduct research toward validating the thesis value propositions. Scoping, analysis and evaluation of proposed solutions can include any combination of technology, policy and business model innovation. Team written reports and presentations are required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Arvizu, D. (PI)
;
Best, R. (TA)
ENVRES 203: Piloting and Transforming Clean Energy Systems and Services
This project-based course focuses on innovation to accelerate the transformation of energy systems and the services they enable. Students will pilot solutions to challenges at the nexus of energy, water, food, IT and off-grid services. Teams will build on projects from past courses to develop a pilot and hypothesis that can be tested to validate their solution pathway. Scoping, analysis, testing, and evaluation of solutions will drive policy and business model innovation. Team written reports and presentations are required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Arvizu, D. (PI)
;
Best, R. (TA)
ENVRES 220: The Social Ocean: Ocean Conservation, Management, and Policy
This interdisciplinary seminar examines current ocean issues and ideas through a series of readings, discussions, and guest lecturer presentations of seminal works about the complex relationships of human beings to the marine world. Through the lenses offered by several classic readings, we will examine and reinterpret the challenges of fisheries collapse, climate change, shipping, marine spatial planning, biodiversity conservation, and the management of land-sea interactions. Though the seminar is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, our course is designed especially for those with a particular interest in studying and solving key issues of ocean policy and management, from coastal adaption to fisheries management to cumulative impacts assessments. In addition to this interest, students must be willing to take the time to dig deeper into the foundations of environmental thinking about the relationship of human beings and the sea.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 5 units total)
Instructors:
Lewis, S. (PI)
;
Urteaga, J. (PI)
ENVRES 225: E-IPER Current Topics Seminar
For E-IPER Ph.D and Joint M.S. students only. Weekly presentations of E-IPER students' research and other program-related projects. Occasional guest speakers. Individual or team presentation, active participation, and regular attendance required for credit. May be taken for credit a maximum of two times.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Vitousek, P. (PI)
ENVRES 230: Field Survey Data Collection & Analysis
In this course we will examine a range of issues related to the collection and analysis of survey data. Topics will include initiating a survey, designing an instrument, conducting enumeration, converting data from questionnaires to digital files, data analysis, empirical modeling and presenting results. Technical components will also be highly focused on application and implementation, and while prior training in econometrics would be useful, it will not be a prerequisite. The course will be tailored so that some of the specific topics covered will be based on the needs and interests of the students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Burke, W. (PI)
ENVRES 250: Environmental Governance (CEE 277C)
This interdisciplinary course presents an overview of environmental governance through an examination of how and why societies manage the relationships between human beings and the natural world. By comparing regulatory, community-based, and incentive-based environmental management systems, we address why certain environmental problems are managed as they are, and what approaches to environmental management are more (or less) successful. Designed for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates with some exposure to both the natural sciences (ecology/environmental chemistry), and the social sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, or sociology). A pre-course incoming survey is required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Strong, A. (PI)
;
Ulibarri, N. (PI)
ENVRES 270: Graduate Practicum in Environment and Resources
Opportunity for E-IPER students to pursue areas of specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, governmental agency, non-governmental organization, or multilateral organization. Meets US CIS requirements for off-campus employment with endorsement from designated school official.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Vitousek, P. (PI)
ENVRES 280: Introduction to Environmental Science
For E-IPER Joint M.S. students only. This course functions as a gateway for E-IPER Joint M.S. students to learn about the variety of environmental science conducted by the program's affiliated faculty. Topics include oceans, green chemistry, water policy, energy, and others. Students engage in problem solving related to the application of science to business, law, and the conservation of natural resources.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Plambeck, E. (PI)
;
Szeptycki, L. (PI)
ENVRES 290: Capstone Project Seminar in Environment and Resources
Required for and limited to E-IPER Joint M.S. students. Propose, conduct and publicly present final individual or team projects demonstrating the integration of professional (M.B.A., J.D., or M.D.) and M.S. in Environment and Resources degrees. Presentation and submission of final product required. 3 total units required; can all be taken during one quarter or divided over two sequential quarters.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Richards, A. (PI)
;
Vitousek, P. (PI)
ENVRES 300: Introduction to Resource, Energy and Environmental Economics
Examination of environmental, energy and natural resource management problems through the lens of economics, with an emphasis on hands-on practical problem-solving. Topics include market failure, cost-benefit analysis, finance, risk & uncertainty, non-market valuation, regulation, green accounting, rent, renewable resources, exhaustible resources, including energy, and biodiversity. Prerequisite: proficiency in multivariate calculus. Knowledge of basic microeconomics helpful but not essential. Open only to E-IPER PhD students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
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