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Sustainability & Social Studies

Instructor: Thomas Chandler, PhD;

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2 billion people lacking eveningillumination or a  clean source of heat for cooking meals.

Urgent demand for energy

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• Show chart of emissions from the U.S.

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9 Billion People by 2050

5 planets needed

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- City the size of Seattle forms every 5 days- Agricultural work declining

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Unimaginable Problems

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Pandemic Influenza1918: 100 million people died

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• Cartogram…draught

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• Cartogram…flooding

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Images courtesy of Antonia LoyzagaManila Observatory

Typhoon Ketsana26 September 2009

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2010 BP Oil Spill: Belief that technology can solve any problem

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Solutions Also Unimaginable

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• 3% of the Btu value of coal becomes usable light

• 5% of a palm oil plant gets used to make detergent

• 8% of the sugars in barley are fermented to make beer

• 0.2% of the coffee plant becomes the coffee we drink

We Manufacture “Waste” All Day, Every Day

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Coal• The United States has the largest coal reserves in the world. • Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as all other fossil fuels combined• 52 U.S. Senators from coal mining states

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Liquid Coal

Germany, South Africa

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Politics

• Senators from coal states

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Clean Energy?

• Nuclear: not enough uranium• Carbon Sequestration: only 30 years global

capacity...it could leak• Solar: Most potential, but solar cells too

expensive• Wind: Not enough land• Hydroelectric: Already tapped out• Geothermal: Not enough energy generated

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Social Studies Textbooks

• “Profound disagreement” within the scientific community

• Questions whether the greenhouse effect itself “exists at all.”

• “Activist scientists”

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Project learning tree: curriculum materials to more than 20 million U.S. students.

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• Pew Research Centerhttp://pewresearch.org

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- Gloom and doom message has not been Effective. Eg, 1988 Congressional Hearing

-Is it human nature not to care about slowMoving long term problems?

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Middle School students reading various geography text books during class in 1927, at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Emphasis on memorization. Difficult to layer data.

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1980s: Databases, Not Easy to Interpret

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1990s: GUI, Visualization

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These four layers might be part of one city's geographic dataset. The layers all contain features located within the city's boundaries, but each one represents a distinct "theme."

Earth Sandwich

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Map based problem solving has been done without digital tools for centuries.

John Snow: Cholera outbreakin London, 1854

© Edward Tufte

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© David Rumsey, 2007

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Public Policy:Digital mapping is used to enable policy makers

to more easily detect patterns pertaining to: - census demographics- public health concerns- crime- tax rates- transportation routes- pollution levels- real estate development- weather patterns- gas / electric power consumption- the impact of various types of natural and

human made disasters

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2000 West Nile Virus Cases

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2001 West Nile Virus Cases

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2002 West Nile Virus Cases

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2003 West Nile Virus Cases

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© Ethnologue, 2007

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Bangladesh

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• Spatial Intelligencenot usedextensively in schools

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• GeoBrowser• Social Networking• 3D drawings• Server based• Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

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Key concept: Adding images regarding Hurricane Katrina

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Key concept: Studying satellite imagery. “Before and after” images

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Holly Beach, LA

2004

2005, after Hurricane Rita

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Key concept: Analyzing historic maps in 3D: Eg, David Rumsey collection

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Key concept: Adding video from YouTube

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Key concepts: Visualizing census data to examine social vulnerabilities. This image displays a 3D visualization of the African American population in Louisiana.

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New York City

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Key concept: Using Sketchup to design better levees, pumps, and FEMA trailers

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Key concept: Longitude and Latitude

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Key concept: Analyzing the oil industry’s impact on Louisiana.

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Key concept: Real-time mapping, viewing storm tracks and social vulnerabilities

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Conclusion….