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Analyze global warming and globalization through the lenses of the natural and applied sciences and the social sciences.
First, analyze your issue or event in Globalization through natural and applied sciences by exploring the following questions:
• How does this issue or event provide a social commentary through the natural and applied sciences?
• In what ways can science help resolve or enhance your issue or event?
Analyze globalization and industrialization and how different industries have impacted the global economy through the history and humanities lenses, and address the following:
· How does this issue/event interact with the history lens and impact social issues?
· In what ways does the history lens help articulate a deeper understanding of the global issue(s) that inform your issue/event? Next, analyze your issue/event through the lens of the humanities by exploring the following questions:
· How is this issue/event portrayed creatively in a global society? What is the message or commentary of this representation?
· How does this representation interact with you in your personal and professional lives?
I. a. Examine the role of the individual in a global society and how Global warming influences aspects of culture and the individual.
b. Using the four lenses, History, Humanities, Natural, and Applied Sciences, and Social Science, explain how global warming has influenced modern society.
II. Analyze Global warming through each of the lenses (History, Humanities, Natural, and Applied Sciences, Social Science) to determine its impact on various institutions, using evidence and research to support each analysis.
The topic is more intense and frequent heat waves that result from climate change.
What are greenhouse gases and what impact do they have on global temperature?
Observed climatic trends and possible consequences associated with global warming
Write a two-page white paper briefing addressing the issue of the environment and the environmental challenges facing the nation’s critical infrastructure.
Write a two-page white paper briefing addressing the issue of the environment and the environmental challenges facing the nation’s critical infrastructure.
Select a recent natural, or man-made, disaster in the United States that occurred in the last 3 years. Provide elaboration and analysis on the selected event as well as the way critical infrastructure was impacted by that event.
Select a recent natural, or man-made, disaster in the United States that occurred in the last 3 years. Provide elaboration and analysis on the selected event as well as the way critical infrastructure was impacted by that event.
Reflect on the numerous environmental threats facing the Everglades or South Florida in general from what we have touched upon in class. Choose one current environmental challenge and address the following questions in your 300+ word response:
Describe the environmental threat. What caused it, and what are the major negative implications?
How is this environmental threat impacting us as human residents of South Florida? How may it continue to affect us in the future?
What are some things we can do to overcome this threat? Imagine you are an environmental manager and it is your job to come up with some solution to the problem. There is no wrong answer here so use your imagination! Consider how both human residents and the environment will be affected by your solution. What are some of the major pros and cons?
Reflect on the numerous environmental threats facing the Everglades or South Florida in general from what we have touched upon in class. Choose one current environmental challenge and address the following questions in your 300+ word response:
Describe the environmental threat. What caused it, and what are the major negative implications?
How is this environmental threat impacting us as human residents of South Florida? How may it continue to affect us in the future?
What are some things we can do to overcome this threat? Imagine you are an environmental manager and it is your job to come up with some solution to the problem. There is no wrong answer here so use your imagination! Consider how both human residents and the environment will be affected by your solution. What are some of the major pros and cons?