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strategic and political implications of ongoing trends in global energy markets, particularly markets for crude oil and natural gas, world's major oil and natural gas producing regions (Middle East, the Caspian Region, Russia, Venezuela, and the North Sea), Producer-consumer relationships for China, India, Japan, and the US, foreign policy implications, especially with respect to China

• Economics of a Sustainable Society - economic fundamentals, sustainability as an ethic and as a policy standard, interrelationships between sustainability and factors such as income, poverty, educational attainment, empowerment of women and ethnic minorities, international trade, population growth and taxes, policy proposals, discounting, economic development assistance programs, methods for measuring progress, issues, case studies

• Environmental and Natural Resources Economics - normative foundations, supply and demand, property rights, externalities, natural resource economics, fisheries economics, benefit cost analysis, political economy, compliance and deterrence, incentive regulation, cap & trade, RPS, climate change

Mineral Definition & Properties, Classification, Physical Properties, Environments, Crystal Systems & Classes, Point & Space Groups, Crystal Structures, Coordination, Structure and stoichiometry, X-rays, powder diffraction, Density, optics, Birefringence & Pleochroism, Indicatrix, Biaxial Interference figures, Light, Biaxial Indicatrix, Isotropic, Phase Diagrams, Classification, Uniaxial Mineral, Systematic Mineralogy, Native Elements, Sulfides, Halides, Oxides, Hydroxides, Carbonates, Systematic Descriptive Mineralogy, Sulfates, Phosphates

formation and composition of the solar system (Nucleosynthesis, atoms, and isotopes, solar nebula, Proto-planetary disks, Condensation and Accretion), Physics (Heating and cooling of celestial bodies), Moon, Small bodies

spatial interpolation, error and uncertainty, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Multi-objective decision making: spatial data sets

Systematic study of the physical environment including human-environmental interaction, environmental hazards, and natural resources: readings, labs, study guides, Online lectures about maps (Projections, Scale, Symbolization)

teaching initiative to improve teaching of geographical techniques: aerial photography & remote sensing, application areas, cartographic communication, coordinate systems, data sources, database concepts, error, accuracy & precision, geodetic datums, GIS (context, concepts & definitions, in workplace), problems & exercises, study questions

basic principles of economic geography, location theory, regional economic development and trade: homework, quizzes, map assignments, links

Examines in detail the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications: Fundamental Concepts, Terrestrial Data Structures, Land Ownership Systems, Data (Structures, Quality, Input, Analysis and Modelling, Output and Mapping Principles), Map Examples, Future of GIS, Exercises and Projects, Data Files for Exercises, General Info

minerals, igneous rocks, volcanoes, weathering, erosion, soils, sediment & sedimentary rocks, metamorphism & metamorphic rocks, mass wasting/movement, running & groundwater, shorelines, glaciers, wind & deserts, geologic time, deformation & mountain building, earthquakes, plate tectonics, application of relative ages