Write first part of the paper clearly identifying, introducing and signifying the SSI. Include the current status of our energy use and why we need changing our current approaches.

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SSI Deliberative Exercise

Instructions

1. Read and understand the rubric. This is an individually written paper from your SSI Deliberative Exercise. Paper must be typewritten with 3-4 pages of text (12 font, 1.5 line spacing). Use sub headings as appropriate.

2. Write a title for your paper – title is an overview of the specific content you present.

3.Write first part of the paper clearly identifying, introducing and signifying the SSI. Include the current status of our energy use and why we need changing our current approaches.

4.Write first part of the paper clearly identifying, introducing and signifying the SSI. Include the current status of our energy use and why we need changing our current approaches.

5. Last portion should include the following.

  • A) What approach you recommend as your energy choice(s) for the future (based on above mentioned reasoning)
  • B) Specific goals of this approach and steps/tasks to achieve the goals of this approach.
  • C) Reasons as to why the steps you suggest are workable and acceptable to the stakeholders.

Define the region and each municipality involved, include brief stats on where you understand the region/province to be heading in response to climate change – what does the future look like? Why the need for action? What are the specific threats?

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Introduction on New Brunswick

Introduction –

Define the region and each municipality involved, include brief stats on where you understand the region/province to be heading in response to climate change – what does the future look like? Why the need for action? What are the specific threats? Why must the response and adaptation speed up with new initiatives and more urgency?

NOTE: The intro has to be about the province of New Brunswick and the following municipality.

New Brunswick: Provincial Organizer

  • Moncton (72K)
  • St. John (67K)
  • Fredericton (58K)
  • Dieppe (25K)
  • Riverview (20K)
  • Quispamsis (18K)
  • Edmunston (16K)
  • Miramachi (17.5K)
  • Sackville (6.5K)

Make a table of services and assets and rate the impact of climate change on each, which indicates the level of urgency and prioritizes investments. Find the partners for your municipality. Do they belong to ICLEI? Who do they get money from for climate issues? Do they need new partners?

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City Assessment

1. Check out your municipal website. Explore beyond the initial pages. Dig into the planning information. Is there a climate report somewhere you can download? Information on extreme weather and emergencies for citizens? Gather all that you can including news reports. Check out the local CBC reporting or CityNews. If you know of a climate emergency in the past couple of years that affected your municipality, do some research on it.

Record what you find. Summarize it in 2 paragraphs

2. Call a planner. Yes, find someone, anyone who can answer your questions. Make contact. Collect stories. Ask questions. Locals are a font of information. Don’t ignore the possibility of learning lots. Find who in the municipality does the planning and reach out. If there are no planners you can find aim high. . . right up to the mayor’s office or the CAO or anyone else in the administration. Be polite. Identify yourself as a student. Ask when you could meet with them for a call or a video call. Make sure you are prepared with your questions. Listen. Thank them.

Who is your contact in the city? What position do they hold? If you have already made contact, what did you learn?

3. One of the problems with planning is the inability to measure progress. How will we know when we get there? Goals should involve action and measures of the results. FCM (Federation of Canadian Municipalities) provides a number of tools to municipalities to measure their progress on climate adaptation goals.

FCM climate and sustainability

Review these videos

Climate resilience and asset management

Note the emphasis on knowing the numbers in order to manage well. Of planning for climate impacts now. When renewing infrastructure climate impacts for the future must be built into the planning. Think about service delivery of all the many services a city does for residents. How will climate change impact that?

You can go further into asset management with these resources

Asset management learning

Think through the services and assets in your municipality. What will be impacted by the extreme weather and climate impacts specifically. Don’t try to come up with numbers here. You don’t have them unless you examine the budget or speak with someone. Instead, the point is to think through the totality of impact and the requirement for wholistic thinking. What does the muncipality do? What services are provided? What infrastructure exists? How will it be impacted? You might want to color code your table from small impact to large and urgent impacts.

Make a list or a table with services and assets and the ways they will be affected by climate extremes.

While you will submit the table for Monday, consider it a work in progress as you will update it as you go along.

4. The main issue in asset planning is the culture among those who set policies for the municipality. Are they committed to dealing with reality? Planning that puts off major changes until 2050 or somewhere down the line, demonstrate a lack of commitment. They merely hope it will be someone else’s problem. They don’t want to have to worry about it. Unfortunately, the pace of change is increasing requiring that many of us reassess our own engagement in transformation. Leadership counts. Is there a way to assess municipal leadership?

FCM is teamed with ICLEI for a program that walks cities through the how to on setting up a climate plan. The plan should include milestones and when those actions are to be completed and by whom. Is your city using a program like this or this one in particular?

PCP program

Research and make a list on your municipality and the programs they partner with or belong to. Or if you cannot find any info on that, note it.

Who are they connected with? Are they using the tools available?

5. Now gather your information together and assess your city on the MCIP Climate Adaptation Maturity Scale. As an outsider looking in, what do you see? How far along are they? Are there indications they are speeding things up, moving along, achieving their goals?

MCIP Climate Adaptation Maturity Scale

Complete the Maturity analysis scale for your city.

Here is a summary of the tasks

  1. Summary of general research on your municipality.
  2. Make a contact within the municipality.
  3. Make a table of services and assets and rate the impact of climate change on each, which indicates the level of urgency and prioritizes investments.
  4. Find the partners for your municipality. Do they belong to ICLEI? Who do they get money from for climate issues? Do they need new partners?
  5. Complete the maturity analysis scale for your municipality.

Write first part of the paper clearly identifying, introducing and signifying the SSI. Include the current status of our energy use and why we need changing our current approaches.

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SSI Deliberative Exercise

Instructions

1. Read and understand the rubric. This is an individually written paper from your SSI Deliberative Exercise. Paper must be typewritten with 3-4 pages of text (12 font, 1.5 line spacing). Use sub headings as appropriate.

2. Write a title for your paper – title is an overview of the specific content you present.

3.Write first part of the paper clearly identifying, introducing and signifying the SSI. Include the current status of our energy use and why we need changing our current approaches.

4.Write first part of the paper clearly identifying, introducing and signifying the SSI. Include the current status of our energy use and why we need changing our current approaches.

5. Last portion should include the following.

  • A) What approach you recommend as your energy choice(s) for the future (based on above mentioned reasoning)
  • B) Specific goals of this approach and steps/tasks to achieve the goals of this approach.
  • C) Reasons as to why the steps you suggest are workable and acceptable to the stakeholders.

List and briefly explain three ways in which human activities are Impacting the biogeochemical cycles. How is climate change currently affecting the earth’s ecosystems?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

1. List and briefly explain three ways in which human activities are Impacting the biogeochemical cycles.
2. How is climate change currently affecting the earth’s ecosystems? Include examples from at least two different geographic regions in your answer.

In 2-3 short paragraphs, explain why western conservation organizations fail to understand Rosewood demand in China, according to Dr. Annah Lake Zhu. How could attention to Chinese culture and history inform more responsible, sustainable, as well as effective forms of conservation to ensure rosewood species do not go extinct in the near future?

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Midterm

This is an open-note, open-book take home exam but it is also an individual exam- this is not a group exam! UA plagiarism and code of ethics apply.
You will submit this via TurnItIn which includes a plagiarism checker. Anyone plagiarizing sources or their peers will receive a midterm grade of 0 as well as be reported through the UA student code of ethics review process. Your response should not include lengthy direct quotes. Responses and ideas should be phrased in your own words.
Answers that merely string together direct quotes from your readings, etc. will only receive partial credit (at best). You do not need to include formal referencing or in-text citations (e.g. APA formatting) in your responses, but you should still explain in your responses where/who your answers are supported or derived from.
Example: “As Professor Wyatt explain in her chapter on wildlife trafficking actors, the perpetrators of wildlife poaching who are seen to hold the least responsibility compared to other actors are subsistence poachers. This is because…”
My goal here is to make sure you are understanding key concepts and ideas from our readings and class lectures and discussions. Consider this an opportunity to reflect on some major ideas and topics we have encountered! Do not spend more than a couple hours developing these responses- I am therefore not expecting formal, polished essays, but they should still be sufficiently thorough, and you are still expected to write in complete sentences largely absent of grammatical and spelling errors. Each question is worth 50 points. Quality is more important than quantity! Take note of how long your responses should be. I would encourage you to write your answers in a word document/word processor and save them regularly before finally submitting them.

Midterm Questions:
1) In 2-3 short paragraphs, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of using Wyatt’s hierarchy of victimization chart to understand the prioritization of victims within the illegal wildlife trade. To receive full credit for your response, your answer must:
#1: draw on 1-2 concrete examples from class discussions;
#2 include your personal opinion (with justifications) for why or why not plants should be understood as victims in illegal wildlife trade;
#3 in responding to the above, include an explanation of how your opinion is informed by an anthropocentric, biocentric, or ecocentric approach to understanding victimization in wildlife trafficking.

2) In 2-3 short paragraphs, explain why western conservation organizations fail to understand Rosewood demand in China, according to Dr. Annah Lake Zhu. How could attention to Chinese culture and history inform more responsible, sustainable, as well as effective forms of conservation to ensure rosewood species do not go extinct in the near future? For full credit, give concrete examples from your reading of Dr. Zhu’s book, Rosewood, as well as discussions from class.

3) In 1-2 paragraphs, make an argument about who and/or what Dr. Rosaleen Duffy holds most responsible for the ongoing militarization and securitization of conservation in relationship to wildlife trafficking. Do you agree or disagree with her arguments? Use concrete examples from the book and class discussions to support your response. If scholars recognize the militarization of conservation and responses to wildlife trafficking as doing more harm than good, why does militarization and securitization of conservation persist? Again, reference examples from class and our readings in crafting your response.

4) In 1-2 paragraph, and in your opinion, what major ideas/topics related to wildlife trafficking do you believe Professors Duffy and Wyatt would most agree on AND ALSO most disagree on based on your readings? Who do you think you agree most with and why? For full credit, you must give examples of both sites of agreement and disagreement. Use examples and concepts from your readings and class to support your argument.

Sources:
Wildlife Trafficking by Tanya Wyatt
Security and Conservation by Rosaleen Duffy
Animal Traffic by Rosemary-Claire Collard
Rosewood: endangered species conservation and the rise of global China – by Annah Lake Zhu

Write a paragraph summary for the article in the link provided.

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mod 5 current event

Write a paragraph summary for the article in the link provided.

  • https://e360.yale.edu/features/bioeconomy-bio-based-materials

What are implications if the issue does not change or improve? What measures are being taken at the local, state, territory, and/or governmental level to address the issue?

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Grizzly Bears

You will be required to write a report on one animal or plant about the topic below..
• The animal or plant species must be from the states of Montana, Nebraska, or Wyoming, found in the wild (no cats or dogs). There are plenty of species to choose from, so take your pick.
• Your report should be at least 7 pages: 1 title page (include student name, animal or plant name, and state–do not list these on the second page as well or points will be taken off), no less than 5 pages for the body of the paper, and no less than 1 page for citations/sources. Note: an extra 1 page can be included for pictures or graphics (optional), but it does NOT count as part of the seven pages.

Additionally, DO NOT add pictures in the body of the report.
• The report must be double-spaced, 1-inch margins, and typed in Times New Roman 12pt font.
• The report must be saved in Word format (not PDF nor Pages).
• The citation page must use APA or MLA format with at least 7 entries.
• At least 50% of your sources need to be published books, journals, or reputable print material (i.e. not websites). Note: e-books, e-journals, etc. are permissible
• Other websites used must be reliable and as high quality as possible (i.e. scientific institutions, university databases, reputable naturalists-i.e. not Wikipedia)
• Sources should be as recent as possible as many organisms get reclassified or have had new information discovered about them that contradicts the old.
• When discussing the habitat (as talked about below), you must include relevant information regarding your chosen species such as scientific and common names, diet, reproductive habits, social grouping, interaction with other species, natural habitat, etc.

• REPORT TOPIC (If these line items are not covered entirely and equally, points will be deducted):

Select an animal or plant species (wild) native to Montana, Nebraska, or Wyoming.
Describe the habitat of the specie is within its state and how it functions (see the line above in the requirements).
Identify a human-related issue impacting the animal or plant species and its habitat. Describe the nature of the issue: i.e. development, deforestation, overpopulation, etc.
What are implications if the issue does not change or improve?
What measures are being taken at the local, state, territory, and/or governmental level to address the issue?
Find an example (either within that state or elsewhere) of how the issue has been or can be addressed/resolved?

What would happen if the market price of nuclear-generated electricity included all the costs of the fuel cycle? Explain. How are the costs of the nuclear fuel cycle paid today? How would this affect the use of nuclear power to produce electricity? How would this affect the development of sustainable energy?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Compose a 300-word (minimum) essay on the topic below. Essays must be double-spaced and use APA-style in-text citations to reference ideas or quotes that are not your own. You must include a separate bibliography.

What would happen if the market price of nuclear-generated electricity included all the costs of the fuel cycle? Explain. How are the costs of the nuclear fuel cycle paid today? How would this affect the use of nuclear power to produce electricity? How would this affect the development of sustainable energy?

Is it possible for us to greatly improve energy efficiency and shift to a variety of renewable energy resources before we do even more serious harm to our own life-support system and to many of the world’s other species? Is it necessary? How could it be accomplished? Explain.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Is it possible for us to greatly improve energy efficiency and shift to a variety of renewable energy resources before we do even more serious harm to our own life-support system and to many of the world’s other species? Is it necessary? How could it be accomplished? Explain.