Download ES (Spring) Unit 1 - Day 1 Monday 1/12

ES (Spring) Unit 1 - Day 4 Thursday (1/15) - hour long lab
Class Activities
1. Allocation of Renewable Resources Activity - (See article)
 Open access - you are given a bag to collect your fish harvest in, you can
catch as many fish as possible in 20 seconds, after 20 seconds the "season"
is over and any fish left will double in number before the next season's
harvest up to the capacity of the fishing grounds (40 to start with)
- after the harvest record the number of fish you caught scenario #1
- teacher replenishes fish up to 40 (holding 5 back)
- do two more harvests (rounds) recording numbers
- open access - everyone can take what they like from an open resource - tragedy of the commons - everyone wanting to use common resources
to maximize their gain can deplete them - alternatives include community
resource management system or government intervention/regulation
 regulation for scenario #2 - you can only fish for 5 seconds per round and
you can't use your hands
- regulation was time and fishing equipment/methods
- how did it effect harvest? Profits? Sustainability of Fish Population
- what are regulations that might be put on other industries which effect
natural resources (restricted oil and coal, restricted mineral rights,
restricted water use, etc.) question 2 in hw
 tradable permits for scenario # 3 - there are 3 permits to sell which allows
you to catch up to 10 fish ( you subtract $ from your profits for the round)
- sell permits then run 3 rounds (can sell permits)
- government decides how much can be harvested and the market sets the
price for permits
-how did it effect harvest? Profits? Sustainability of Fish Population
- what other tradable permits put on other industries which effect natural
resources (sulfur emissions & fishing question 9 in hw)
 community resource management - common property for scenario # 4 you can discuss with the group and decide to do whatever you want and
then each group fishes for 20 seconds while the other groups don't look
- community rather than government sets up a system and enforces it
-how did it effect harvest? Profits? Sustainability of Fish Population
- what other things community resource management might work for
Maine lobster fishing, irrigation in Spain, Native American rice and
hunting grouds, Swiss village -owned mountain forests and pastures
- factors that usually are in place for crm to be effective
people lived there or involved for a long time, defined boundaries,
community group size defined, recourse is scarce and highly
valuable; strategies evolve over time, conflict resolution
mechanisms in place, economic incentives for compliance
 other approaches from reading and hw - tax shifting (question 5 & 6)
- subsidy shifting - (question 7)
- full cost pricing
- ecolabeling (question 8)
- policies and laws
- selling services instead of goods - text page 410 - Interface carpets
- use environmental indicators like GPI instead of GDP
2. Discuss each scenario and relate it to open access, regulation, common
property, and tradable permits
3. Bring in other tools - taxes - tax shifting (for full cost pricing), ecolabeling,
subsidy shifting, laws and policies, selling services, etc.
4. Go over any other questions to homework from yesterday. (see notes on
previous page)
Homework for Friday 1/16
1. Finish Lab sheet
2. Saturday - Design a survey to give to 100 people which surveys to see if
people are willing to restructure the economy to address environmental
problems.
 Make sure the questions differentiate between different approaches
such as internalizing costs, pollutions taxes, tax shifts, subsidies,
ecolabeling, etc.
 For respondents who respond favorably to one or more of the
approaches above, determine what kinds of environmental issues
people would like to see addressed (i. e. - global warming,
wilderness preservation, water quality, overpopulation, etc.)
NOTES:
Name_______________________________
Date__________________
ACCOUNTING SHEET - Allocation of Renewable Resource Activity
- a round represents a fishing season!
- Your company needs to make catch fish worth $40,000 to make a sustainable
profit
- Each goldfish represents $10,000 worth of fish
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Round 1
Profit for
your
business
Round 2
Profit for
your
business
Round 3
Profit for
your
business
Total
Profit for
your
business
Total
Industry
Profit
Fish
population
after 3
seasons
Scenario # 1 - conditions:
Scenario # 2 - conditions:
Scenario # 3 - conditions:
Scenario # 4 - conditions:
Describe the effects that each set of conditions had on: your profit, total industry profit, and the fish
population.
Harvest 1 - effects:
Harvest 2 - effects:
Harvest 3 - effects:
Harvest 4 - effects: