CRS 246: Interdisciplinary Study of an Estuary: Integration and Action
Course Topics
The general outline for the course includes:
- An orientation to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research
- Logic models and outcome assessments
- Problems of the Chesapeake Bay
- Policy, programs, and practice
- Examining successes and failures
- Environmental economics
- Competing resource use and resource valuation
- Visual Impact assessments
- Geographic information systems and other data management and modeling tools
- The Gulf of California as a counterpoint to the Chesapeake — similarities and differences
- Global trends — problems and solutions
- Visioning for the future
