MODULES

WEEK 1: Foundational Material W1-2: What Defines "Collapse"? W1-2: Random Dispersal and Survival Vectors Historical Examples of Dispersal events W1-3: Empire Building and Cultural Annihilation W1-4: Overview of Natural Hazards Hazard Impact Factors The Toba Catastrophe: An example of bad timing	WEEK 2: Risk Perception, Statistics and Estimation of Risk(most boring week) W2-1: Historical US Natural Disasters W2-2: Risk Perception Examples of presenting risk W2-3: The Bell Curve and Probability W2-4: Earthquake Insurance and Cultural Variance
WEEK 3: Volcanoes W3-1: 10 Potentially Dangerous Current Volcanoes W3-2: Overview of Volcanoes as Hazards W3-3: Specific Disastrous Volcanoes Western US Volcanoes in Google Earth W3-4: Risk assessment techniques for Volcanoes W3-5: Volcano Cultural Disruption: The Cases of Santorini and Mataram	WEEK 4: Natural Hazards and Climate Change W4-1: Explosive Volcanoes and Climate Change W4-2: Cultural Responses to Climate Change First Team Presentation Thursday Jan 29
WEEK 5: Earthquakes W5-1: Large quakes since 1900 Earthquake Visualization in Chile W5-2: Culturally Deadly Historical Quakes Anatomy of the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Tsunami Evolution What it looked like on the Beach Case Study: the Mycenaean Collapse W5-3: The New Madrid Earthquake of 1811 The FEMA New Madrid "Plan" W5-4: The Local Threat: The coming Cascadia MegaThrust Event	WEEK 6: Floods, Floods, Floods W6-1: Ten Worst Floods in Cultural History W6-2: Ice Ages, Meltwater, and the Migration of Hunter Gatheres W6-3: Ice Age Mega Floods and Cultural Random Dispersal Case Study: The Disappearance of Dogger Land Case Study: Glacial Lake Missoula Case Study: The Black Sea Deluge Case Study: The 1993 Upper Mississippi River Basin Floods
WEEK 7: Climate Change and Culture Resiliency W7-1: National Climate Assessment report Regional Impacts W7-2: Inuit Observations of Climate Change W7-3: Mark Carey: Indigenous Responses to Climate Change: The Andes peoples Glacial Outburst Floods on Mt. Rainier Second Presentation Thursday Feb 19	WEEK 8: Easter Island (EI): Ecocide or Not? W8-1: Jared Diamond: EI as "Environmental Suicide" W8-2: Alternative Explanations for EI Collapse W8-3: The extinctions of other Island Cultures: Tasmania, Andaman Islands, Tierra Del Fuego W8-4: EI: A Local Metaphor for Global Ecocide? W8-5: Global Ecocide 10 Current Examples of Global Ecocide
WEEK 9: Climate Change Perception W9-1: Americans Perception of Climate Change W9-2: Climate Change affirmation by the Pentagon; Denial by Congress Read this, all of it W9-3: The Insurance Industry view of Climate Change as a Natural Hazard W9-4: State of the Future Index W9-5: Go Forth and Consume the Planet	WEEK 10: Future Matters W10-1: Responses to the IPCC assignment W10-2: Cultural Resistance to Change W10-3: The importance of randomness in the Context of Planetary Mass Extinctinos A controversial idea W10-4: The 6th Extinction Third Presentation Thursday Mar 12