GEO 162: Global Environmental Issues: Topics & Readings Mutersbaugh
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BIODIVERSITY Week 1: Intro: Syllabus; Readings; Course Organization |
W1
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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 |
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United Nations 2010 Global Biodiversity Outlook (For Quiz, read ALL of Biodiversity 101, but for the UN reading, check figures only -- the readings quiz lists page numbers with questions) |
Reading Guide 1. Due before class: These will be a set of questions available on canvas each FRIDAY, due before the first class of the following week . |
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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Shiva: Biodiversity, a 3rd World Perspective
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NO DISCUSSION SECTION WEEK 2 | |||||
How do we (Westerners) understand nature? Bacon, Jaws, and Avatar: Techno-science, rationality, and nature |
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Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: chapter 43 (just the first 3 paragraphs if pressed for time, although chapter 43 in its entirety does a nice job of weaving together notions of nature, beauty, character, improvement and love) Videos: Iskay Yachay - Two Kinds of Knowledge |
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 |
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Reading Guide 3 | READER Cronin 'The Wealth of Nature: Lumber' pg: 148-159 AND 200-206 |
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| Singer: Animal Liberation | Mamdani: myth of population control http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVOU5bfHrM |
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CONCEPTS Environmental Justice & Environmental Racism |
W5
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Mini-Exam 1: September 18: Ideas of Nature 9/18 | 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) | ||||||||
CLIMATE AND ENERGY CO2, climate and Ocean Acidification |
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How do we measure Atmospheric CO2? 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 |
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Appalachia and Mountain-Top Removal | |||||||
ENERGYCONCEPTS Soft Paths, Hard Paths and Energy Futures ENERGY Nuclear and Mountaintop Removal vs. Sustainable Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Conservation: |
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Mini-Exam 2: Oct 2: Env, Pop & Environmental Justice 10/2 |
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 |
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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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W8
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US Midrange Abatement CURVE -- 2030
Brazil CO2 abatement CURVE -- 2030 |
Reading Guide 7 |
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Read pages 13-27, and also figures 1-3: Footprint/Brookings Carbon Footprint report |
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Reading Guide 8 | Biofuels and environmental destruction Jesse Ribot: Charcoal production in Senegal |
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PROJECT PART 1 |
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 and Consumption |
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Mini-Exam 3: OCT 23: Climate and Society 10/23 10/23 |
Reading Guide 9 | Fairtrade-Organic Networks in New Geographies of Conservation Pollan M. 2000. 'The Organic-Industrial Complex' |
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| Food Nation AVAILABLE IN CANVAS FOLDER!p.111-147 ('why the fries taste good') & p. 193-222 (what's in the meat?) | ||||||||
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the shrimp commodity chain Guns, Money and Cell Phones (lecture material)
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Additional Examples of Territorial-Exclusionary Conservation or 'Green' Schemes |
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POLLUTION: Toxicsin a commodity chain context Toxics: Dead Zones: Fracking, Anoxia, Tar Sands, Nuclear wastelands, War Zones... |
W11
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Alternatives: Certified Organic, Fair-Trade, Sustainable agriculture, Locally-Grown Organic Agriculture: IN-CLASS EXERCISE |
Reading Guide 10 |
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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 |
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Murder of Peruvian anti-logging activists:
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| W12 | Mini-Exam 4: NOV 6: Commodity-Chains and Environments 11/6 | Reading Guide 11 | ||||||
| Conservation: Theory and Practice | ||||||||
Territorial and non-territorial conservation/combining strategies; a bit of theory: metapopulations and island geography |
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Bottom Up vs. Top Down: Grassroots Activism and Global Initiatives Indigenous Peoples Campaign against Carbon Colonialism (CO2lonialism) |
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Conservation in imposed reserves: pluses and minuses: |
W13
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TERRITORIALLY-FOCUSED/EXCLUSIONARY REDD Menace (http://sdep.beckman.illinois.edu/files/adding-insult-to-injury-intro-editorial.pdf). Imposing carbon conservation around the world |
PROJECT PART 1 DUE Monday Nov 13 at 11:59 pm: PEOPLE AND PLACE |
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Participatory Reserves: Productive’ Conservation: Ecotourism? GENDER
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TERRITORIALLY-FOCUSED/PARTICIPATORY CONSERVATION Chico Mendes: Amazon Rubber-Tappers Union |
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| w14 | THANKSGIVING WEEK NO CLASS | |||||||
Non-Territorial Strategies: Regulating commodity-chains Ecological Agriculture |
W15
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GEOGRAPHICALLY-DISPERSED/EXCLUSIONARY Versus PARTICIPATORY Mutersbaugh territorial vs. non-territorial conservation strategies
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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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GEOGRAPHICALLY-DISPERSED/PARTICIPATORY Edward Abbey: Monkeywrench Gang Sea Shepard anti-Whaling Campaign Shark Fins/ |
FRIDAY SECTIONS, | Two amazingly Bad Songdo City Promo Videos!!! :) |
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| Biodiversity Revisited: Science and Politics | W16
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DEAD WEEK!!!!!!!!! Urban Ecologies Video: "Cities of the Future" |
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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Mini-Exam 5: DEC 6: CONSERVATION THEORY AND PRACTICE 12/6 | |||||||
| Finals Week: Project Part 2 Due Monday Dec 11 at 11:59 pm | ||||||||