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SUMMER 2014
ENGINEERING - LAS ONLINE LEARNING
Beaches, Reefs, Fish, Disasters, and Climate Change:
Coastal Issues, Policies, and Solutions.
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Delivery:
Political Science 442/542
Tentative launch
May 19 - 2014
June 27
Summer
3 Credits of
Certificate
No Prerequisites
completion
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credit
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Why Coastal Policy is Important
Everyone loves the
seashore and the
coast. The
National
Oceanographic
and Atmospheric
Administration
estimates that
• the population density along
the American coasts is well
over 400 people per square
mile, 4x the rest of the
country
• there are 23 U.S. coastal states
and over 100 countries
• over half the population of the planet about 3.2 billion people - lives and
works in the coastal zone
This creates lots of issues
affecting coastal life requiring
urgent attention. We know that
from the recent killer
hurricanes to the threat of
global warming and rising seas.
STEFFEN SCHMIDT, PHD
Steffen W. Schmidt is a University Professor of Coastal Zone
Management (an affiliate of Nova Oceanographic Center),
also Political Science and Public Policy at Iowa State
University. He is the author of 13 books, has 45 years
of teaching and research experience in coastal policy,
is a Des Moines Register blogger, a CNN en Español
analyst, and commentator and is the Chief Political
Correspondent of InsiderIowa.com.
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