USP 514 Term Paper

USP 514 – Sustainable Development Term Paper Summarize what you learned from each and every session in this course. You are required to refer to each session separately and individually with the name of the session on top of each part of your answer.   Session 1 “Introduction” There was a lot of metacommentary in… Continue reading USP 514 Term Paper

USP 514 Session 15 Notes

November 18th Session Fifteen: The Covid 19 Pandemic  REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION FIFTEEN (click on Session 14 on left side to access reading)   The Fullest Look Yet at Racial Inequalty of Covid 19 –https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html How Covid 19 is laying bare inequality in Europe Black New Deal  Community Ready Corps and The Anti Police-Terror Project convened a wide… Continue reading USP 514 Session 15 Notes

USP 514 Session 14 Notes

November 16th Session Fourteen:  Green New Deal  REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION FOURTEEN   Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition – https://report.gndforeurope.com/ Austerity is not a solution to the climate collapse. Progress is expensive. You can’t get progress with austerity. Economic inequality is another major problem facing civilization. Democracies are collapsing around the world as a result of the unaddressed economic… Continue reading USP 514 Session 14 Notes

USP 514 Session 13 Notes

November 9th  Session Thirteen: Cost Benefit Analysis and Precautionary Principle  REQUIRED READING FOR SESSION THIRTEEN (click on Session 13 on left side to access reading)   Pricing the Priceless (this is a legal article so you may have to review it several times Cost-benefit analysis is a deeply flawed method that repeatedly leads to biased and misleading… Continue reading USP 514 Session 13 Notes

USP 514 Session 12 Notes

November 2nd and 4th   Session Twelve: Sustainable Urban Energy Management   This session will focus on the approaches, policies, and practices we can promote sustainable energy management and use. The discussion will be guided by the following questions: What are the major characteristics of energy? Energy: the ability to do work Energy sources Human energy… Continue reading USP 514 Session 12 Notes

USP 514 Session 11 Notes

October 26th and 28th   Session Eleven: Sustainable Urban Transportation Management This session will examine a range of issues critical to sustainable urban transportation. We will examine case studies of Curitiba, Brazil and Bogata, Columbia transportation systems. We will be guided by the following questions. What are basic characteristics of urban transportation systems? Mobility Some relationships are backwards… Continue reading USP 514 Session 11 Notes

USP 514 Session 10 Notes

October 19th and 21st Session Ten: Sustainable Urban Waste Management This session will focus on the approaches, policies, and practices that can promote sustainable waste management and resource recovery. We will be guided by the following questions. Waste is unwanted material intentionally thrown away for disposal. What are the basic characteristics of waste as it… Continue reading USP 514 Session 10 Notes

USP 514 Session 9 Notes

October 12th and 14th Session Nine: Sustainable Urban Water Management This session will focus on the approaches, policies, and practices that can promote sustainable water management and use.   Homework Write down all the ways in which you used water on the day you did this assignment. Remember to include all of the activities you engaged… Continue reading USP 514 Session 9 Notes

USP 514 Session 8 Notes

October 7th Session Eight – Urban Infrastructure  NOTE: REQUIRED READING FROM TEXTBOOK EVERY WEEK BEGINNING THIS SESSION This session will focus on the concept and functions of urban infrastructure, and on how infrastructures are designed and managed to deliver water, waste, energy, transportation, building, food, and social services to urban populations. The following questions will guide… Continue reading USP 514 Session 8 Notes

USP 514 Session 7 Notes

October 5th   Session Seven: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Plans This session will focus on how urban administrators have developed approaches to promote sustainable development. The following questions will frame our class discussion. What are the SDG’s? The SDGs are a uniform set of goals for sustainable development which evolved out of decades of work… Continue reading USP 514 Session 7 Notes