Transcript Introduction to Research Methods Powerpoint

Research
Methods
Ecosustainability
Anti-bullying
and OAP in
Henderson
South
from a to a
or Getting Nowhere
finding the freeway
to myself, i put my foot
down to my own motive
floorboards asking the
rear
-view what to do
next
it said
brother
the faster you
eat me up the more you
leave behind – you’ll see
more of me slower so why not
pull over ’cause this road is
going
backwards and your incessant
tyres are speeding up
the world
© Mario Petrucci 2008
Published in: Envoi magazine
(#147)
A class of two streams
• Research methods only – 93
• Research methods plus Research Practicum –
3 students
• 11.00 to 12.30 - practical tasks in class around
methods and RM assignments - breakout
• 1.00 – 2.30 an interactive lecture relevant to
both groups
• 2.30 – 4.00 – breakout - tutorial time for RM
• RP Small group tutorials by arrangement
Some tricky and not-so-tricky issues
No attendance requirement after the 1st 3
weeks. Need to be respectful of others in the
class and the teacher, being intentional about
your attendance. Look at your timetable
Where will we do the breakouts? We have two
classrooms 510-3011 (65) and 510-2035 (25)
1.00 – 2.30pm (sessions may go into tutorial
time, from time to time)
Tutorials: Mostly 2.30- 4.00pm. Practicum – by
arrangement
Issues in Resource Depletion?
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Population growth projections
Per capita use of resources
Peak Oil
Carbon or Ecological Footprint
Effects of Climate Change
Environmental degradation and loss of
biodiversity
What we can do to change
The evolutionary psychology of change
The politics of change – cultural evolution
The pragmatics of individual change - morality
Key questions
• How important is it for SWers and CDers to
understand the impacts of resource depletion
and climate change?
• How important is it for SWers and CDers to
understand how research is done and how to
interpret it?
The problem of doubling
• Put a small piece of paper (one
quarter of a 0.05mm A4 page)
on the desk, double it for the
second, double for the third and
so on. How high would the stack
of pages be on the 96th
student’s desk?
• If we have 7% growth how long
is before we double our use of
resources? How long before we
have 1000 fold increase in the
use of our resources
Tau Ceti - only 12 light
years from Earth. A Sun
sized star with known
planets some of which are
possible the same size as
Earth
No one lives here
yet
World GDP Growth Rates 2009
Exponential curves
World Population Growth, 1750–2150
2035 - 8 billion
1985 - 4 billion
1955 - 2 billion
1920 - 1 billion
Annual growth rate = 3.5%
Actual and Estimated production of oil and
gas – Peak Oil
Ecological footprint per person
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1961 - 2001
Land needed for uranium
Land and ocean needed for carbon sequestration
Land needed for housing
Land needed for agriculture (animal food)
Ocean needed for fishing
Land needed for timber
Land needed for plant foods, biofuels
Ecological Footprint
• The biocapacity of the Earth =11.2 billion
hectares on a sustainable basis
• =1.8 global hectares per person – nothing for
non-humans
• In 2001 we used 13.7 billion global hectares,
or 2.2 global hectares per person.
• Our Footprint exceeds our biocapacity by 0.4
global hectares per person.
• The planet’s living stocks are being depleted
faster than nature can regenerate them
Climate change - melting of the Artic ice caps.
24% lost over 30 years
Sea level rising
Maldives
1000 year drought - Australia
followed by 1000 year floods
Air pollution in Beijing
Plastic Oceans
Plastic oceans video
Environmental degradation
deforestataion
Ocean acidification
Risks to biodiversity
Dramatic irreversible change
Many aspects of climate change and associated
impacts will continue for centuries, even if
anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are
stopped. The risks of abrupt or irreversible changes
increase as the magnitude of the warming increases.
high confidence that ocean acidification will increase
for centuries
virtually certain that global mean sea-level rise will
continue for many centuries
A reduction in permafrost extent is virtually certain
(releasing millions of tons of methane – 20 times
more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2)
Why can’t we change?
Rapanui
Rapanui
What’s the NZ government
doing?
We are committed
to have our
emissions at 5%
below the 1990
level by 2020 and
50% by 2050.
We are 27% above
1990 and set to
reach 50% higher
by 2025
Our emissions are
22nd highest in the
world on a per
capita basis and
we’re headed for a
3-5oC rise by 2100
Who said this?
2014 IPCC predictions
Climate change will amplify existing risks and create new
risks for natural and human systems. Risks are unevenly
distributed and are generally greater for disadvantaged
people and communities in countries at all levels of
development.
Evolution of change
• Human behaviour is adapted well to
responding to short and medium term threats,
but not to long term threats.
• We know about the mechanisms of biological
evolution, but very little about cultural
evolution
• We need to understand the psychology (the
effects of incentives) and sociology (e.g. social
norming) of behaviour change
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Possible mechanisms of change?
the ways in which different types of consumer feedback and
information affect sustainability behaviour
the effect of non-economic incentives and disincentives;
the impact of social marketing campaigns;
the importance of social networks and social movements in
shaping sustainability behaviour uptake
the effect of group contingencies and behavioural modelling
on individual behaviour;
the significance of commitment to behavioural change;
the importance of the social and political context in shaping
individual attitudes and behaviour;
the relationship between social status, values and
sustainability behaviour and
socio-cultural patterns of sustainability behaviour.
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Resilient local communities and
eco-sustainability
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Grow more local food, create compost, humus
Share and employ more local resources – food co-ops
Repair and re-use rather than replace
Play more sport, have more social life locally
Travel less, bike more, more fun, more work locally
Support each other (including elderly and people with
disability) – less reliant on welfare services
• Recycle water, waste less water, energy , use solar power
• Better local infra-structure - less need for motorways
• Feeling empowered to make change
Ecosustainability in Poor
Communities
• What happens when there is shortage of the
things “we need”.
• Close up segment
Our project this year, in McLaren Park/ Henderson
South, is trying address one of fundamental
reasons as to why a community might struggle
to deal with ecosustainability issues.
Turning MPHS
into an
Amazing Place
• Building
community
resilience
• Managing bullying
and preventing
the transition into
other crimes
OUR AMAZING PLACE
Treasure Hunts are a vibrant platform for community development
Highlights…
• Unsworth Heights – 58 teams, 250 people
• Helensville – 130 teams, 400 people
• Glenfield - 30 teams 150 people
• Lyttelton - 120 teams - 450 people
Glen Eden 23rd March 2013
Massey 23rd March 2013
Unsworth Heights 23rd March 2013
Avondale 6th of April 2013
Kelston 13th April 2013
Initial steps underway in Glendene, Ranui, Titirangi, Te
Atatu, MPHS, Tamaki, Riverside, Bayswater. Also
enquiries for Mt Roskill and Central suburbs
How was it?
• 85% rated the event 8, 9 or 10 out of 10, 41% were
10/10
• Great day for my family, it was fun to have time with
my son & work together, loved spending the day with
my family and community, we all had lots of fun,
• What a great fun idea, Awesome job, we salute you
for your great concern for our community. On behalf
of Lata, I would like to thank you for organising this
event to open up our minds about the community
• Cool, love this!, fun, exciting, awesome day,
awesome day, we had an awesome time, what an
awesome day, Perfect event