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Student Activities for Human Capacity and Resilience:

1.            Perform comparative accounting across areas where different systems are used (which take into consideration more or less externalities); conduct scenario modeling of different gasoline tax increases; examine case studies of businesses before and after; perform life cycle analysis

2.            Correlate characteristics of local governance and environmental policies; e.g., what is the role of “Offices of Sustainability?”; network analyses of governance actors (e.g., neighborhood associations, NGOs, municipal agencies); describe trends in capacity for trans-national governance (e.g., international treaties, Debt for Nature swaps, 3rd party certification)

3.            Gather their own survey or interview data and analyze it; analyze data from existing publicly available survey datasets; compare the insights gained from interviews and surveys

4.            Perform network analysis of key community actors; examine the role of social capital in comparative studies of adaptation and resilience; examine the role of social capital in acute disasters/extreme events

5.            Examine variation in campus coal divestment movement; comparative studies of environmental practices across communities; interviews and surveys about community/local norms

6.            Content analyses of climate change news articles; examine media coverage of IPCC versus media coverage of individual empirical studies


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  • Assessment
  • Activities
    • Climate Change Activities
    • Climate Processes Activities
    • Human Drivers Activities
    • Climate Impacts Activities
    • Human Capacity and Resilience Activities
    • Adaptation Activities
    • Mitigation Activities
  • About