Lesson 3 Overview

Complex Social-Ecological Systems:

As you work through this section, make sure you understand the different terms used well enough to use them correctly in your own thinking and writing (feedbacks, system state transition, thresholds, legacy, telecoupling, vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation). Can you identify examples of these outside of the course content?

More broadly, consider these questions as you go through the material for this week as well as when completing your assignment:

Do we ever consider the long term effects of our actions in regards to the environment?
How connected are our lives with the health state of the ecosystems?
Have we reached the threshold of ecosystem resilience? Or have we ventured into the territory of irreversible damage?

Lesson 3 Checklist

Tasks
To Read	Read the Lesson 3 course content.	Use the links below to continue moving through the lesson material.
To Read	Reading: Liu, J., Dietz, T., Carpenter, S.R., Alberti, M., Folke, C., Moran, E., Pell, A.N., Deadman, P., Kratz, T., Lubchenco, J. and Ostrom, E., (2007). Complexity of coupled human and natural systems. Science 317 (5844): 1513-1516.	Located in the Lesson 3 module.
To Watch	Films: Angry Inuk and Sustainability in a Tele-coupled World	Links to the films are provided in the Lesson 3 module.
To Submit	See Canvas, course announcements.

Note: Please refer to the Calendar in Canvas for specific time frames and due dates.