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AL102 Course Guide Academic Year 2025-2026-Finalized on 26.9.25

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Weekly Plan (Seminar Presentation+Writing Version) 

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Weekly Plan (Seminar Presentation+Writing Version) 

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Three pillars of sustainability- in search of conceptual origins copy 2

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Questions for UN SDG Report 2025 - Introductory sections

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Questions for UN SDG Report 2025 - Introductory sections

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Questions for UN SDG Report 2025 - Introductory sections - ANSWER KEY

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Questions for UN SDG Report 2025 - Introductory sections - ANSWER KEY

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3-Step Method For Crafting a STRONG Thesis Statement | Strong Thesis = Strong Essay

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3-Step Method For Crafting a STRONG Thesis Statement | Strong Thesis = Strong Essay

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3-Step Method For Crafting a STRONG Thesis Statement | Strong Thesis = Strong Essay

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All Grades Excel Sheet (Participation 20+10 Version)

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All Grades Excel Sheet (Participation 20+10 Version)

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Sample Student In-class Essay Sample Student Paper (Ali's class - for Ts' own use) - 1

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Sample Student In-class Essay Sample Student Paper (Ali's class - for Ts' own use) - 1

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All Grades Excel Sheet (Participation 30 Version)

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All Grades Excel Sheet (Participation 30 Version)

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AL102 Risk Assessment Document August 18 2024

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AL102 Risk Assessment Document August 18 2024

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AL102 Risk Assessment Document August 18 2024

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50 grand challenges for the 21st Century - BBC article  by Bryan Lufkin, 2017

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50 grand challenges for the 21st Century - BBC article  by Bryan Lufkin, 2017

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Homi Kharas, senior fellow and deputy director of Brookings Institute's Global Program
The battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. 150 million people are moving to cities each year. By 2050, over 7 billion people will live in cities (80% of the world), and cities will be responsible for 75% of global carbon emissions. Cities are places where infrastructure gets locked in for decades, if not centuries, but city planners must make investments now in a world where technology is changing rapidly where people live, work and play, and how they access buildings, transport, energy and waste management. The fastest growth is happening in thousands of secondary cities where mayors and city managers are not well schooled in technical urban planning. Often, these secondary cities must collaborate with each other to deliver services effectively across boundaries within larger metropolitan areas.

Carey King, assistant director, University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute
We need a discussion as to what political leaders, business leaders, and citizens think is an appropriate distribution of wealth across the entire population. This focuses on the real question (how many people have what, independent of the size of the economy, though the two are linked) instead of discussing how to shape policies and taxes to achieve an unspecified growth target independent of wealth distribution. Trump, Brexit, and Le Pen are representations that people understand growth only for the elite in the West is no longer tenable.
An issue that has not received enough attention in the media and popular understanding is that the Earth is finite and this fact will have real world physical, economic, social, and political implications. Neoclassical economics ignores this obvious fact, yet it is used to guide most policy (eg, economic projections and scenarios), including that for climate change mitigation. Thus, we are using an economic theory that is simply incapable and inapplicable for informing an unprecedented transformation of the economy.

Vijay Padmanabhan, Asian Development Bank, Technical Advisor (Urban)
The one major challenge we will face due to urbanisation will be 'water security'. We are already grappling with this problem across our developing member countries and with deteriorating river or surface water quality, lack of sufficient ground water sources and increasing dependence on sea water as a supply source, we have to bring in innovations in water management. Treatment technology, water aquifer mapping, recycling and reuse of wastewater, etc. are areas of R&D investment.

ADB is working with a large number of utilities to address these issues and as we engage on a long term basis with many cities and utilities, we will be actively exploring opportunities to bring in value for money propositions so that the utility benefits in the long term. We are also connecting with industry leaders to understand market trends so that we can bring the best to our developing member countries.

William Ryerson, founder and president, the Population Institute and Population Media Center
Perhaps a summary is that the human enterprise has outgrown the long-ability of the planet's renewable resources to support us at our current numbers and our current rates of consumption and waste generation. Climate change is just one piece of evidence of this fact. Technological improvements, while potentially important in reducing per capita impact, are not sufficient to make us sustainable unless we also stop growth in human numbers and reduce average consumption, while simultaneously lessening the gap between the richest and the poorest people on the planet. Sustainability is a term that is not well understood and is misused, but the reality is that any activity that is not sustainable will stop. So far, non-renewable resources are what are primarily driving our economic engine. But by definition, non-renewables are being depleted and for the most part will stop being economically available in this century. So we must plan rapidly for the day when humanity can live using just renewable resources, while maintaining the biodiversity that makes the planet habitable. In truth, sustainability is the ultimate environmental issue, the ultimate health issue, and the ultimate human rights issue.

Strategies that help to bring about changes in societal behaviour, including reproductive behavior, are critically important in achieving sustainability. Use of entertainment media is a key component of such strategies, since a large share of humanity consume entertainment mass media during free time. For that reason, Population Media Center utilises long-running serialised dramas in various countries to create characters that gradually evolve into positive role models for the audience to bring about changes in social norms on a broad array of critical issues. Attached are three documents that describe this work and its effects.

Jim Watson, Director of the UK Energy Research Centre
We need to think about how the system will fit together as our energy systems change.
Globally speaking there is still a lot of people - 1.5 billion or so - who do not have access to modern energy services. There is going to be a lot of rising demand from regions like Africa.

One of the big challenges of deploying new energy technologies, particularly these intermittent renewables like wind and solar, is the impact they have on the system. It used to be that in the summer it was a really quiet time for the grid operator compared to the winter, but now they are having this peak in generation in summer due to solar energy when demand is low. They are having to juggle this as we cannot store electricity in large quantities yet. This is a new way of operating for them.

With the sort of changes we are seeing in energy systems around the world, cheaper and better storage is going to be a big part of the solution. When it comes to heating for somewhere like the UK, you might need storage that lasts several months. You get a lot of energy generated in the summer and you might need it in the winter to heat homes. This is an area that is really ripe for innovation and we are really only at the start of deploying and trailing those. It is a critical part of this new system we are trying to create.

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50 grand challenges for the 21st Century

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We asked experts from the world of science and technology to describe the societal challenges that they think matter in 2017 and beyond.

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In-class Essay Exam Question (Ali's exam paper)

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In-class Essay Exam Question (Ali's exam paper)

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AL102 INCLASS ESSAY SAMPLE ALI'S EXAM QUESTION

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In-class Essay Exam Sample Student Paper (Ali's class - For Ts' own use) -2

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In-class Essay Exam Sample Student Paper (Ali's class - For Ts' own use) -2

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Weekly Plan Alternative 2 (by Meltem) Writing+SPs

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Weekly Plan Alternative 2 (by Meltem) Writing+SPs

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WEEKLY CALENDAR Type 2  - Writing + Seminar

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Seminar Presentations Task Sheet 2025-2026

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Seminar Presentations Task Sheet 2025-2026

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Evolutionary perspectives on substance and behavioural addictions

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AL102 SP Task Sheet Fall 2025-2026 Updated September 10 2025

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Sustainable Development (2025) Göçoğlu, Düzsöz & Demirkol

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Sustainable Development (2025) Göçoğlu, Düzsöz & Demirkol

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Sustainable Development-2025- Göçoğlu- Challenges and Priorities in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

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AL 102 High Profile seminar presentation