Category: USP514 Sustainable Development
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…