Ronald B. Mitchell, Professor

Lecture notes, or class session notes, will be posted here prior to class in most weeks.

• Lecture #1: Introduction Powerpoint.
• Lecture #2: Climate Change Science: the Basics  Powerpoint.
• Lecture #3: Exposure, vulnerability, adaptation, and impacts. Powerpoint.
• Lecture #4: IPAT and the Drivers of Climate Change – Population Powerpoint.
• Lecture #5: IPAT and the Drivers of Climate Change – Affluence and Technology Powerpoint.
• Lecture #6: Glacier Politics and Climate Change – Guest Lecture by Mark Carey, University of Oregon, Director of Environmental Studies and Honors College Professor
• Lecture #7: Ethics and Climate Change Powerpoint
• Lecture #8: Why should you trust the science, Part 1? Powerpoint
• Lecture #9: Why should you trust the science, Part 2? Powerpoint
• Lecture #10: Economics of climate change  Powerpoint
• Lecture #11: Psychology of climate change  Powerpoint
• Lecture #12: Sociology of climate change  Powerpoint
• Lecture #13: Responses to Climate Change: the local level – Guest lecture Prof. Jennifer Hadden, U-Maryland – No Powerpoint Available
• Lecture #14: Law and climate change – Guest lecture Coreal Riday-White, Our Children’s Trust – No Powerpoint Available
• Lecture #15: International Negotiations   Powerpoint
• Lecture #16: Did the Kyoto Protocol influence member states emissions? Powerpoint
• Lecture #17: Climate Policy in Oregon: Guest lecture by Taylor Smiley Wolfe, former Policy Director for Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek and UO Alumni
• Lecture #18: No Class — Happy Thanksgiving
• Lecture #19: Student Presentations (send powerpoint!) and Adaptation, Geoengineering, and Grieving Powerpoint
• Lecture #20: The Good News about Climate Change — Review of the term Powerpoint