GEO 162: Global Environmental Issues: Topics & Readings Mutersbaugh
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BIODIVERSITY Week 1: Intro: Syllabus; Readings; Course Organization |
W1 1/13 |
Course introduction: syllabus, expectations, TA introductions, argument of course, exams, grading, etc. |
Boris Worm et al., "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem," Science (November 3, 2006) data projects global collapse of all taxa currently fished by the mid-21st |
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Biodiversity Conservation Biology and Biodiversity: types of biodiversity, Evolutionary Processes, biodiversity loss |
W2 1/18 Lecture 2 |
United Nations 2010 Global Biodiversity Outlook (For Quiz, read ALL of Biodiversity 101, but for the UN reading, check figures only -- the blackboard readings quiz lists page numbers with questions) |
Reading Guide 1. Due before class: These will be a set of questions available on blackboard beginning FRIDAY and due before the first class of each week as listed. |
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, from Ecosystems and Human Well-Being (Island Press, 2005) "Over the past 50 years, humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber, and fuel." |
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IDEAS OF NATURE: How do we (Westerners) understand nature? Bacon, Jaws, and Avatar: Techno-science, rationality, and nature |
W3 1/25 Lecture 3.1 |
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: chapter 43 (just the first 3 paragraphs if you are pressed for time, although chapter 43 in its entirety does a nice job of weaving together notions of nature, beauty, character, improvement, and love) |
Reading Guide 2 |
Gould 1999. Bacon, brought home: philosophy of Francis Bacon about natural world. Natural History 108 (June): 28-33, 72-78.
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History: Colonialism: where to environmental inequities arise? Hot spots and Colonial Histories Colonial maps |
1/27 Lecture 3.2 |
FRIDAY SECTIONS, |
READER Cronin 'The Wealth of Nature: Lumber' pg: 148-159 AND 200-206 |
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Non-Western Ideas of Nature Concepts: Rights for Nature? |
W4 2/1 Lecture 4.1 & 4.2.1 |
Reading Guide 3 |
Shoshtak: Nisa's life in the Kalajari Bush (Botswana) Gonzalez: Zapotec Science 'Maize has a soul' (Mexico) Yoon: East Asian ideas of nature (read second part of article) |
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Neo-Malthusianism vs. Consumerism |
2/3
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FRIDAY SECTIONS, 2/5: PROJECT PART 1 DUE: Neumann and Global Environmental History |
Mamdani: myth of population control http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVOU5bfHrM |
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CONCEPTS Environmental Justice & Environmental Racism |
W5 Lecture w5 2/8 |
Mini-Exam 1: Environment & Population 2/8 | Reading Guide 4 |
Bunyan Bryant: Environmental Justice overview animal rights: the cove |
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| Robert D. Bullard, from "Environmental Justice for All," The Crisis (January/February 2003) | ||||||||
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CLIMATE AND ENERGY CO2, climate and Ocean Acidification |
2/10 |
Indigenous Peoples Campaign against Carbon Colonialism (CO2lonialism)
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Bigfoot Lexington |
W6 6.1 2/15 |
Shiva: Biodiversity, a 3rd World Perspective Videos: Iskay Yachay - Two Kinds of Knowledge |
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2/17 6.2 |
Singer: Animal Liberation | ||||||
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ENERGYCONCEPTS Soft Paths, Hard Paths and Energy Futures ENERGY Nuclear and Mountaintop Removal vs. Sustainable Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Conservation: |
W7 2/22
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Mini-Exam 2: Environmental Justice & Ethics 2/22 |
Reading Guide 6 |
The Ecological Footprint: (large document, takes a while to download!) READ pp. 8-10; 13-14, 18-23 |
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IPCC, 2013:
Summary for Policymakers. The Physical Science Basis.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC 2013 also available: http://www.climate2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_SPM_FINAL.pdf |
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Finish up Hard versus Soft Paths Commodity Chains and Environmental Analysis, Introduction |
2/24 |
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NO FRIDAY SECTIONS, |
Burning Coal on the University of KentuckyÕs Campus NewScientist: 'Replumbing the planet' Hard Paths: Fukushima: tsunamis, nuclear power and environmental catastrophes |
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POLLUTION: Toxicsin a commodity chain context Toxics: Dead Zones: Fracking, Anoxia, Tar Sands, Nuclear wastelands, War Zones... |
W8 2/29
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3/2: ! |
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FOOD, AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY Commodity Chains and Consumption |
3/3 |
Read pages 13-27, and also figures 1-3: Footprint/Brookings Carbon Footprint report |
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W9 3/7 |
Baer, 'The Clothesline Paradox' Hard Paths: Is Geo-engineering a bad idea?
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Biofuels and environmental destruction Jesse Ribot: Charcoal production in Senegal |
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3/9 |
Mini-Exam 3: Climate and Society 3/9 |
Wendell Berry, from The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Sierra Club Books, 1977) [F]ood is a cultural product; it cannot be produced by technology alone... |
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Commodity-Chains: Food Nation AVAILABLE IN BLACKBOARD FOLDER!p.111-147 ('why the fries taste good') & p. 193-222 (what's in the meat?)
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SPRING BREAK |
W10 |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
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Territorial and non-territorial conservation/combining strategies; a bit of theory: metapopulations and island geography |
W11
3/21 |
Emissions Embedded in Trade (or Figures Only version)
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Fairtrade-Organic Networks in New Geographies of Conservation Pollan M. 2000. 'The Organic-Industrial Complex' |
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Conservation in imposed reserves: pluses and minuses: |
3/23 |
Ghana accuses British Recycling Firm of Toxic Waste Dumping Flowers in Colombia: Pesticides: http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=H2hTTkr2KuQ&NR=1 worker's rights |
FRIDAY SECTIONS: 3/25PROJECT PART 2 DUE: PEOPLE AND PLACE |
Additional Examples of Territorial-Exclusionary Conservation or 'Green' Schemes Korea: Urban Environmental Struggles: Short videos detail contemporary Korean debate over hyper-urban development versus environmental conservation. The 'ubiquitous city' is portrayed as environmentally-friendly by some, while others counter that this development is environmentally destructive.
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W12 3/28 |
the shrimp commodity chain |
Reading Guide 7: |
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Participatory Reserves: Productive’ Conservation: Ecotourism? GENDER
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3/30 |
Mini-Exam 4: Commodity-Chains & Environments |
FRIDAY SECTIONS,
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Sears, Padoch et al. Sustainable
Agriculture in
the Amazon
Woodhouse, Philip. Environmental Degradation and Sustainability Figure 7.4; Box 7.5; and 'sustainable development' 154-162 Article in Blackboard folder |
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Conservation: Theory and Practice Mutersbaugh territorial vs. non-territorial conservation strategies |
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W13 4/4 |
TERRITORIALLY-FOCUSED/EXCLUSIONARY REDD Menace (http://sdep.beckman.illinois.edu/files/adding-insult-to-injury-intro-editorial.pdf). Imposing carbon conservation around the world |
Reading Guide 8 | |||||
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Non-Territorial Strategies: Regulating commodity-chains Ecological Agriculture
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4/6 |
TERRITORIALLY-FOCUSED/PARTICIPATORY CONSERVATION Chico Mendes: Amazon Rubber-Tappers Union |
Electronic E-Waste: The Story of Stuff
Murder of Peruvian anti-logging activists:
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W14 4/11 |
GEOGRAPHICALLY-DISPERSED/EXCLUSIONARY Certification Organic Agriculture: |
Reading Guide 9 | |||||
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Participatory Action, Non-Territorial: ELF, Anti-Nukes, Vandenberg, Sea Shepard, Anti-Logging Road Blockades (Philippines), Chico Mendez, Facebook shaming campaigns?
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4/13 |
GEOGRAPHICALLY-DISPERSED/PARTICIPATORY Edward Abbey: Monkeywrench Gang Sea Shepard anti-Whaling Campaign Shark Fins/
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W15 4/18 |
Reading Guide 10 | ||||||
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Biodiversity Revisited: Science and Politics |
4/20
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Urban Ecologies Video: "Cities of the Future" |
FRIDAY SECTIONS, | Two amazingly Bad Songdo City Promo Videos!!! :)
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W16 4/25 |
DEAD WEEK!!!!!!!!!
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4/27 |
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4/29: PROJECT PART 3 Due | |||||