|  Dr.
Steffen Schmidt, Ph.D.
Welcome to CoastalPolicy.com
Our Coastal Policy Blog - http://coastalzonemanagement.blogspot.com/
We have a series of tools and projects targeted at the
study of coastal policy and coastal zone management (CZM).
I am prof. of Political Science at Iowa State University.
I am also an Associate of the Nova Southeastern University
Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach, Florida. Our consulting
firm SEAS L.L.C. has designed and developed and holds copyright
on the video's, graphics, and copyrighted material used
in these programs or courses.
We are releasing our book on chartering sailboats "Other People's Boats" soon and our Intra Coastal Waterways Wiki, where guests can share their ICW experiences.
You may contact me at:
Below is one example of a coastal course I developed with
Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center. This is offered as an undergraduate as well as graduate course at Iowa State University every summer. (Grad students do a very focused research project with me for this class).
"Port Security and Terrorism" is a new distance course that I am developing in partnership with an innovate East Coast law school. Stay tuned for announcement when this is ready for prime time.
Steffen Schmidt
International
Integrated Coastal Zone Management - CZMT-0614-DE1
January 4-March 26, 2010
With Special Coverage of Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Dec. 2009 - short video
Readings and
Unit Assignments
http://coastalzonemanagement.blogspot.com/ Please check our blog
"Social
demands for outputs from a coastal area usually exceed
the capacity of the area to meet all demands simultaneously"
from
NOAA ICM web site ..........
First print this
page and check off each assignment as it is completed. Please
do this now! Assignments are also in WebCT the course management system we will use in this class.
The
reading assignments in the table below are listed by the
week. Please try to complete the work and, where appropriate,
submit or do assignments. Also, please start a folder on
your computer to keep all assignments in case something
goes wrong in cyberspace.
Required
Books:
Colin
Woodard, Ocean's End: Travel Through Endangered Seas,
(New York: Basic Books, 2000). Paperback or hardback edition.
Defying
Ocean's End: An Agenda for Action, Edited
by Linda K. Glover and Sylvia A. Earle, http://www.islandpress.org/DOE/book.html,
There
are also required reading assignments from material that
will be available on the Internet or pdf files inside the
WebCT site for the class.
Assessment/Grading:
1.
Weekly assignment journal worth 80 points of the final
grade.
2. Short Research proposal. 8-10 pages on a topic on
IICZM of interest to you. Topic must be approved
by the instructor. 120 points of final grade.
3. Weekly Discussions WebCT. These are asynchronous
(not real-time live chat). (100 points of final grade).
Go to WebCT.
You will have been automatically enrolled in that web site
as soon as you register and get an e-mail account. You
must post your discussions the week of the assignment. You
can and should post when you have ideas on the discussion
topic. Read others discussions and respond to at
least one per week. The postings should be as long
as you want but at least a normal paragraph. The discussions
are just like a good discussion in class. They should be
honest, they could be "hot" and controvertial
but respectful. You should look at them as a way to enhance
your knowledge, test out your ideas, and engage
in learning and educate others! They are NOT just a necessary
assignment but are a vitally important part of your learning
in this class.
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Total Points Possible 300
This calendar is in
revision so DO NOT USE IT Until this notice is deleated!
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Dates |
Assignment |
Content
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Other
Assignments |
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Week 1
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Start
the Book:
Ocean's End
Foreword and
Preface
Chapter 1
"Dead Seas"
Chapter 2 "Ocean Blues" |
The
death of the Black Sea is described in this first
chapter. Forces and processes that contributed
to the destruction of this body of water and the
adjacent coastal systems are examined.
Chapter 2 is an
overview of the oceans, how they contribute to
life on earth and the current crisis of the oceans |
The
coastal disasters of recent years provide
a rich new source of insights and theoretical
questions about coastal management and policy.
Check out these quickly:
Galveston
Post IKE 2008 Video images
The
Tsunami Explained - The BBC
Disaster
Mapping - Tsunami - click on mapping application
Science
on Line - Hurricane Material
Louisiana's
Vanishing Wetlands
Solutions
to Coastal Disasters
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Week
2
|
Chapter 3
"Run on the Banks"
Chapter 4
"Muddied Waters" |
Overfishing
of the Newfoundland Grand Banks was not only an
ecological disaster. It also had profound consequences
on the coastal societies that were founded on
cod fishing and related enterprises and institutions.
The drastic changes
in the "engineering" structure of the Mississippi
river triggered massive consequences in the Gulf
of Mexico downstream and in the coastal zones
of the Louisiana bayou coastal ecosystems are
analyzed in this chapter. |
Check out:
Principles
of ICZM
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Week 3
|
Chapter 5
"Fall of the Magic Kingdom
Chapter 6
"Paradise Lost" |
5.
The decline of the recently pristine coastal areas
and coral reefs of Belize is documented in this
chapter.
6. The Marshall
Islands in the Pacific face almost certain destruction
as a result of changes in global climate and the
changes in sea levels. This chapter documents
an example of the most extreme threat to a coastal
zone - it's complete disappearance! |
"Scientists
Weigh In On The Politics Of Climate Change" or read pdf in webCt
Also listen to brief audio file
in WebCT.
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Week 4
|
Chapter 7
"Message from the Ice"
Chapter 8
"Sea Change |
In Chapter 7 the
same problems - global warming as well as ozone
depletion - are further explored by examining
the Antarctic Peninsula.
Ch 8 This final
chapter suggests several strategies to slow and
hopefully reverse some of the trends discussed
in the previous pages of the book. |
2009
Climate Change Conference Copehnagen- Please review
this site. We will assign specific material -
http://en.cop15.dk/
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Week
5
|
Start
the Book: Defying
Ocean's End
pp.
xi - Chapter 1 - 2
|
Background.
How can we challenge the issues identified in
Ocean's End?
Chapter 1. The Caribbean
Chapter 2. Seamount
Biodiversity, Exploitation and
Conservation
Chapter
|
Conservation.org
Home of Defying Ocean's End.
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Week
6
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Read:
Defying Ocean's End Chapter 3-4
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3. The Southern Ocean: A Model System for
Conserving Resources?
Chapter
4. Coral Triangle
Chapter |
The "Climate Gate" e-mail controversy
and the politics of climate change.
"Hacked
E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute"
- The New York Times |
| Week
7
|
Read:
Defying Ocean's End Chapter 5 |
Chapter 5. The Gulf of California:
Natural Resource
Concerns and the Pursuit of a Vision
Chapter |
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Week
8
|
Read:
Defying Ocean's End Chapter 6-7 |
6. Lines on the Water: Ocean-Use
Planning in Large Marine Ecosystems
Chapter
7. Rationality or Chaos? Global Fisheries
at the Crossroads
Chapter
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More material coming! |
| Week
9 |
Read:
Defying Ocean's End Chapter 8-9 |
8. A Global Network for Sustained
Governance of Coastal Ecosystems
Chapter
9. Restoring and Maintaining Marine Ecosystem
Function
Chapter
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| Week
10 |
Defying
Ocean's End Chapter 10-11 |
Chapter
10. Defying Ocean’s End through
the Power of Communications
Chapter
11. Ocean Governance: A New Ethos
through a World Ocean Public Trust
Chapter
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| Week
11 |
Defying
Ocean's End Chapter 12 |
12. The Unknown Ocean |
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Week
12 |
Read:
Defying Ocean's End
Chapter
13-14 and conclusion
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Chapter
13. Business Plan
Chapter 14. Technology Support to Conservation
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