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
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
