Geography 1000: World Ecology Problems

 

Class: Monday/Wednesday 10:00am – 11:50am

Sangren Hall 02303

 

 

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Dr. Greg Veeck

Office: Wood Hall 2114 (second floor across from computer labs)   Map

Office Telephone: (269) 387-3420

E-Mail: gregory.veeck@wmich.edu

 

 

Graduate Teaching Assistant Susan Benston

Office: Graduate Assistant Cubicles #3513  (third floor in Geography office)   Map

E-Mail: susan.benston@wmich.edu

 

Directions to Offices

 

Dr. Veeck’s office is on the second floor.  Walk in the main doors of Wood Hall, you can see his office with the lanterns across the courtyard.  The best way is to go left and right at the four-way intersection and then walk to the end of the hall and turn right again.  Halfway down the hall is his office on the right hand side.

 

To get to the Geography Office walk in main doors of Wood Hall and take a left.  You will come to a four-way intersection, take a left and go up the stairs.

 

 

LECTURES

The following is a list of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that will be used during lecture.  They are in numerical order, if there is an (a) that is the first part of the lecture and (b) is the second part.  For example, 4 (a) and (b) will both be presented on the same day.

 

1.  Lecture 1: Unifying Themes

 

2a.  Lecture 2a: The Politics of Gl  obal Issues

 

2b. Lecture 2b: Maps and Projections

 

3. Lecture 3: Major Environmental Debates

 

4. Lecture 4a: Eco-terms Defined and Classified

 

4b. Lecture 4b: Water Cycle

 

5. Lecture 5: Application of Concepts--China

 

6. Lecture 6: Population Change and Demography

 

7. Lecture 7: Global and US Energy-Production and Consumption

 

8. Lecture 8: Politics, Pragmatism and Power --Nuclear Power in America

 

9. Lecture 9: The Promise and Problems with Bio-FUELS

 

10. Lecture 10: Genetic Modifications, Agriculture, and Environment

 

11. Lecture 11: Changing Biodiversity in Agriculture

 

12. Lecture 12: Exotic and Introduced Species

 

13. Lecture 13: Human Food Systems and Environment

 

14. Lecture 14: Infectious Diseases and Environment

 

15. Lecture 15: Land, Air and Water as Ubiquitous Goods      

16. Lecture 16: What is water pollution--technical aspects of water pollution

 

17. Lecture 17 The really Great Lakes

 

18. Lecture 18: Air Pollution--Nuts and Bolts

 

19. Lecture 19: Global Warming is here to stay!

 

20. Lecture 20: The importance of rainforests

 

21. Lecture 21: Desert Ecosystems

 

22. Lecture 22: Tourism and Environmental Impacts

 

23. Lecture 23: Environmental Implications of the WTO

 

24. Lecture 24: Alternative Energy Advances

 

25. Lecture 25: Final Lecture and Class Themes