Teaching
Courses
- Short Course in Multi-scale Analysis of Sustainability: This online resource includes materials for a graduate-level course on integrated analysis of sustainability. It draws heavily on the research developed under the GLASS project.
- Global Change and the Challenges of Sustainably Feeding a Growing Planet: This online resource contains materials for teaching a graduate-level course on global agricultural change and food sustainability. It heavily draws from the textbook “Global Change and the Challenges of Sustainability Feeding a Growing Planet” by Thomas Hertel and Uris Lantz Baldos including supplementary reading materials and lab assignments using the SIMPLE model.
- Understanding Food Waste Through the Trade-off and Opportunity Cost Concepts: When it comes to food, consumers and producers are faced with choices. Producers must consider how much food to produce, how to process it and how to get it to the consumer before it goes bad. For consumers, they may decide not only what to consume, but what producers to buy from and how much to purchase and consume. Consumers must make these choices given a scarcity of time and limited budgets. This raises questions for economists to consider. What are the choices and trade-offs that consumes make when it comes to buying food? What opportunity cost do consumers and producers incur to get want they want or to meet social goals of reducing food waste? Are these opportunity costs related to the amount of food wasted? What trade-offs do producers make when selecting methods of production, processing and transportation?