Introduction: Tackling the Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century → Local Garbage in a Global Controversy

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Lesson 1: Understanding the Challenges We Face
This introductory content sets the stage for why the problems we face are so urgent, and why it’s not an option to use only the tools and approaches that have been traditionally used in environmental conservation. An overview of the drivers of environmental problems will give you a sense of the different problems and opportunities you might engage in, and set you up to select a topic to work on.
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  Intro: Understanding the Challenges We Face View
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  Our Biggest Environmental Challenges View
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  The Challenges We Face View
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  Overview: the Drivers of Extinction View
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  Why we need to design collaborative, just, and inclusive environmental solutions View
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  Blue Ventures: a systemic approach to environmental solutions View
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  The Future of Conservation Survey View
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  Assignment: Choose Your Challenge View
Lesson 2: Analyzing Complex Environmental Problems
In the face of pressing environmental problems, it is natural to want to jump straight into action and focus on an immediate solution. But in order to design successful, equitable, and lasting interventions, we need to take a step back and get a deep and contextualized understanding of the problem.
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  Intro: Analyzing Complex Environmental Problems View
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  Primer: What is Systems Thinking? View
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  A Systems Thinking Framework for Conservation View
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  Systems thinking: a cautionary tale (cats in Borneo) View
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  What’s at Stake: When Systems Interventions Fail View
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  Local Garbage in a Global Controversy View
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  Tools for Systems Analysis View
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  The Iceberg Model View
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  System Map Examples: Food System Map and Saving Water for Nature Map View
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  Interactive Causal Loop Visualization View
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  Identifying Leverage Points in Systems View
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  Assignment: Map Your System View
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  Lesson 1: Additional Resources View
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  Lesson 2: Additional Resources View
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  General Resources View

Introduction: Tackling the Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century

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