Weekly class notes and
guidelines for practicals
Week
1 - August 30 -- Held values of environmental goods
Supplemental
References
Practical
1--Searching the library and internet.
Week
of September 6 -- Monday is Labor Day Holiday
Practical
2-- Creating web documents and a homepage.
Week
2 - September 13 -- Who are the stakeholders and what are their values?
Supplemental
References
Practical
2 (continued)-- Creating web documents and a homepage.
Week
3 - September 20 -- Economic evaluation of land resources - I
Supplemental
References
Practical
3-- A simple spreadsheet evaluation and using the EXCEL Internet Assistant
Link
to
those practicals
Week
4 - September 27 -- Economic evaluation of land resources - II - Cost-benefit
Practical
4-- A more comprehensive spreadsheet evaluation
Week
5 - October 4-- Economic evaluation of land resources - III - Indirect
estimates of costs and benefits, TCE; Time, risk, uncertainty
Practical
5-- Discounting in cost-benefit analysis
Week
6 - October 11-- Visual quality -- overview
Practical
6-- The beauty meter and its application.
Week
7 - October 18-- Visual quality -- expert-based assessments and other
views
Practical
7 -- Visual quality assessment
Practical 7
-- Site
Pictures
Week
8 - October 25-- Landscape Suitability
Practical 7 continued
Week
9 - November 1-- Land resource sustainability
Practical 9-- CITYgreen - Introduction
Week
10 - November 8-- Wildlife resources
Practical 10-- Using CITYgreen
Week
11 - November 15-- Cultural and other values
Practical
11-- More CITYgreen
Practical
11 example-- Worked-out before and after, 0 and 30yrs growth for each
Link
to
current
projects
Week 12 - November 22-- CITYGreen
presentation
Thanksgiving
Week
13 - November 29-- Back to Values: Equity and Environmental Justice
Practical
12-- Final project assembly
Week 14 - December 6-- Envisioning the
Future of Suburbia and the City
Practical 12-- Final project assembly continues
Modified: 18 October, 1999, Brian Orland
