ESRM / COMM Blog Post #5

Please read about the Paris Agreement and make a reply to this post with a piece of information about it here (who, what, where, when, how). Do read other's posts so that you can add new information!

Click here for  a good place to start.

ESRM / COMM 496 Blog Post#4

Please read about 'climate geoengineering' generally online and then post any example that interests you as a reply below. Use 2-3 sentences to describe the geoengineering technique you identify.

We will review the Moore et al. 2018 reading tomorrow in class!

ESRM / COMM 496 Blog Post #3

Lookup and revisit information on California's GHG Cap and Trade Program.
Focus on the current state of the program (cost, success, amount of GHG reductions, etc).
Summarize your information in a reply to this post and include a URL to an article or webpage with more information on California's GHG Cap and Trade Program.

UAS Geography 350: IPCC Blog Post 2

As part of their argument that the anthropocence demands we rethink the split between nature and society, Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz suggest we need to study both “natures pervaded by the social” and “societies pervaded by nature” (36).  One of the core conclusions of their book The Shock of the Anthropocene is indeed that these “two former supposed ‘compartments’ must thus be studied by combining approaches of the so-called social and so-called natural sciences, rather than by an interdisciplinarity of adjacency in which each would reign over its own compartment” (37). In this way, they echo a point made in Ted Toadvine’s short “Six Myths of Interdisciplinarity.”  Indeed, Toadvine posits that a “broad interdisciplinarity” is important for environmental studies--“broad” serving to mark what he calls “a conversation between the disciplines that range across the spectrum from the natural sciences to the humanities.”  

In this short writing assignment, we’d like you to meditate on interdisciplinarity and  climate change . You might start by considering the insights on climate change offered by your own discipline. Can you identify moments of incommensurability with other disciplinary ways of knowing in these climate insights?  What might be some barriers to the “broad interdisciplinarity” Toadvine outlines?    Can you identify places where “nature” and the “social” are compartmentalized? Is it necessary to overcome this compartmentalization?

Think about your answer for a few minutes, then try to quickly compose a reasoned response that represents no more than 20 minutes of writing and editing.   Post this writing in the comments below. If you encounter interface or technical troubles, or just have general questions about the assignment, shoot me an e-mail at kkmaier@alaska.edu and I’ll post the comments for you.