Teaching Note: Ecology as Politics

Teaching Politics, Imagining Evil

Politics, Kinship, and Ecology in Southeast Persia

The Iranian plateau is an ideal area for investigating the relationship be? tween ecological and sociological factors because of its stark aridity, on the one hand, and its historical role as a meeting place of ethnic and cultural movements on the other. The part of the plateau which forms the southeast corner of Persia is particularly interesting from this point of view. Over an area of some 2...

Introduction : Disasters as Politics – Politics as Disasters

What is the relationship between politics and disasters and how does this relate to the recent boom in disaster studies? The introduction to this volume argues that the recent interest in disasters is not because there are more disasters, but because of two recent developments within the social sciences: first, a focus on rupture rather than on continuity and second, a focus on materiality. Dis...

Teaching Note 97-03:

One of the earliest stochastic models of the term structure was developed by Vasicek (1977). His model is based on the evolution of an unspecified short-term interest rate. Although the model is developed in a fairly general framework, it is most frequently applied in a more specific form that is presented here. The Vasicek model has many advantages, though it also has some shortcomings. The mo...

Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology

THE ECOLOGICAL QUESTION: Does cowbird brood parasitism reduce songbird numbers? WHAT STUDENTS DO: Students use a spreadsheet to compare numbers of individuals of up to 40 bird species in sites with and without cowbirds. SKILLS: Using a spreadsheet to make figures. ASSESSABLE OUTCOMES: Figure from spreadsheet data, written interpretation of data, written analysis of the published paper. The brow...