Amy Potter

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Armstrong State University

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Course Modules (6)

Unit 5: Case Study Group Work-Spatial Data Investigation part of The Wicked Problem of Global Food Security
Unit 5 will delve more into an examination of food security using online ArcGIS. The class begins with a GIS-based exploration of data available for the three regions. The rest of the class period is provided for ...

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Conference Presentation (1)

The Wicked Problem of Food Security: Modules that Promote Interdisciplinary and Systems Thinking Using AGO part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Oral Sessions:Wednesday A
Over the next several decades, food security will continue to be one of the most pressing issues facing our planet. With this in mind, three professors from different disciplinary backgrounds, cultural geography, ...

Other Contribution (1)

Dr. Amy E. Potter: Using Food Security in Geography 1100: World Regional Geography at Armstrong State University part of The Wicked Problem of Global Food Security
My course is an introductory world regional geography class that fulfills the global perspectives requirement for the university. I teach this course thematically (largely traditional lecture format) with regional examples inserted throughout. I ran the module the last three weeks of the semester as a culmination of some of the human/cultural themes we discussed throughout the class with the exciting insertion of earth systems. The module allowed students to focus on the problem of food security in the context of a regional case study.