Suggestions for an environmental policy "topic" for reading exercise

[Beth DeSombre]

Hi again, folks:

Here's a more nebulous request for suggestions (and a recommendation for a class exercise -- this has worked really well for me).

On the first day of my Environmental Policy seminar I have students all do a reading exercise, where they all get 10-15 minutes to "read" a source (each student has a different source) on a collective topic and report back to the class on what that source tells us about a specific set of questions.  We gather that info, use it in a discussion about the topic, and then talk about what reading strategies they used to get info out of their sources when they didn't have enough time to fully read them -- and how those reading strategies are helpful for course reading and research more generally.  (I use widely varying types of sources, from complex econometric articles, to memoirs, to government documents, history, etc; some really long, some short, some directly on topic, some tangential.)

This will be complicated this year because I have to do this all electronically, and I also want to do a different topic than I've done in the past (which has been about the health of the NE Atlantic Fisheries and causes of decline).

So I'm looking for suggestions of an empirical issue that has a lot of (electronically-available) literature of varying types (like REALLY different -- history, memoir, quantitative analysis, qualitative, advocacy, etc.). Policy related, and ideally not US-based.  

Weird request, I know . . . thanks in advance if anyone has suggestions.

Beth

[Ronald Mitchell]

And, while we are on the topic of online/remote exercises, a reminder that this simple but rather effective simulation of the Tragedy of the Commons is at https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/commons , including teaching resources and even a 20 year-old video of me teaching the class session at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRjhm8kUONQ (yep, was already bald then!).

You can fill out a request form at https://pages.uoregon.edu/rmitchel/commons/requests.htm

Ron

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