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*This schedule will be updated regularly with assignments, new readings, etc.*
Part I: Contemporary Environmental Problems: Roots and Responses
Exploring Environment-Society Connections
Sept. 2
Bell chapter 1, “Environmental Problems and Society”
Stuff pp.4-32
materials from class:
Concept assignment #1 (due Sept. 9th)
Project paper #1 (due Sept. 14th) (also see the guide to commodity chain research below)
Sept. 7
Stuff pp.33-71
Diamond, Jared. “Why Societies Collapse” (Course website)
Guide to commodity chain research
Information on citing your sources
Causes and consequences of over-consumption
Sept. 9
Bell chapter 2, “Consumption and Materialism”
*Concept assignment #1 due
Sept. 14
Thompson, Ginger. 2003. “Behind Roses’ Beauty, Poor and Ill Workers.” New York Times, Feb. 13, 2003. (Course website)
*Project #1 (commodity chain analysis) due
Global capitalism and the treadmill of production
Sept. 16
Bell chapter 3, “Money and Machines”
Concept assignment #2 (due 9/21)
Sept. 21
Perrow, Charles. 1997. “Organizing for Environmental destruction.” Organization & Environment 10(1):66-72 (e-reserves) (password: green)
Van Natta, Don, Jr. and Neela Banerjee. 2002. “Energy Industry's Recommendations to Bush Became National Policy,” New York Times, March 28, 2002 (Course website)
NOTE: With these and other readings on electronic reserves and the course website, I strongly recommend printing them out rather than trying to read them online.
Sept. 23
Lawrence Summers, “The Memo” (course website)
(NEW 9/11/04) Yardley, Jim. 2004. “Rivers Run Black, and Chinese Die of Cancer.” New York Times, Sept. 12, 2004. (course website)
Sept. 28 Exam #1
Population, Development, and Environment
Sept. 30
Hertsgaard, Mark. 1998. “How Population Matters” From Earth Odyssey, Broadway Books (e-reserves)
“U.N.:World can't afford rich China” CNN-Europe, July 17, 2003. (course website)
Concept assignment #3 (due 10/7)
Oct. 5
Bell chapter 4, “Population and Development,” plus pp.187-193
New 9/30/04: "Demographic Bomb May Only Go Pop!" New York Times, 8/29/04 (course website)
Oct. 7
REVISED 10/5/04: Review Bell ch. 4. No new reading.
Concept assignment #3 due
Project Paper #2--Decoding Environmental Ideologies (due 10/19)
Local schedule for Bioneers conference
Revised schedule for Oct. 12 through Exam #2.
Environmental Ideologies and Movements
Oct. 12
Bell, chapter 6, “The Ideology of Environmental Domination”
Brulle, Robert. “Environmental Discourse and Social Movement Organizations.” Sociological Inquiry 66(1):58-83. ** Focus on the first page and pp.63-74** (e-reserves)
Oct. 14
Bell, chapter 7, “The Ideology of Environmental Concern”
Name that ideology! Take a look at these quotes and see if you can tell which environmental (or anti-environmental) ideology it best illustrates. We'll talk about this at the beginning of Thursday's class.
Health and Environmental Justice
Oct. 19
Bell, chapter 5, “Body and Health”
*Project #2 due
Oct. 21
From the Ground Up, Preface-chapter 1
Oct. 26
From the Ground Up, chapters 2-3
Concept assignment #4 (due Thurs. 10/28)
Oct. 28
From the Ground Up, chapters 4-5 (in ch.5, skip or skim pp.121-130)
Nov. 2
From the Ground Up, chapter 7
Bell, chapter 9, “The Rationality of Risk”—Focus on pp.197-199, 208-216
Guest speaker: filmmaker John Liu on environmental conditions and movements in China
Nov. 4 Exam #2
Concept assignment #5 (due 11/11)
Part II: The Social Organization of Solutions
States, markets, and communities—The politics of institutional design
Nov. 9
Bell chapter 10, “Organizing the Ecological Society”
Nov. 11
Tokar, Brian. 1996. “Trading Away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of ‘Free Market Environmentalism.’” Dollars and Sense (March/April 1996) (e-reserves--remember, the password is 'green.')
Sabel, Charles, Archon Fung, and Bradley Karkkainen. “Beyond Backyard Environmentalism.” Boston Review Oct./Nov. 1999. (course website)
Responses to Sabel, Fung, and Karkkainen: Wilson and Weltman, “Government’s Job;” Lowi, “Frontyard Propaganda” (course website)
Topic: Water
Nov. 16
Shiva, Vandana. “Water Rights: The State, the Market, the Community.” From Water Wars, South End Press. (E-reserves)
Finnegan, William. “Letter from Bolivia: Leasing the Rain.” From The New Yorker, April 8, 2002. (course website)
Topic: Greening the Corporation?
Nov. 18
Hawken, Paul. “A Declaration of Sustainability” (e-reserves)
Lovins, L. Hunter, and Armory B. Lovins. “Harnessing Corporate Power to Heal the Planet.” From The World & I, April 2000. (course website)
Concept assignment #6 (due 11/30)
Topic: Solid Waste and Recycling
Nov. 23
Weinberg, Adam, David Pellow, and Allan Schnaiberg. “Urban Recycling: An Empirical Test of Sustainable Community Development Proposals.” From Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development, Princeton University Press. (e-reserves)
NOTE MINOR CHANGE IN SCHEDULE BELOW: The topics originally scheduled for Nov. 30 and Dec. 2 have been reversed.
Topic: Global Warming/Climate Change
Nov. 30
McCright, Aaron M. and Riley E. Dunlap. “Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement’s Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy.” Social Problems 40(3):348-373. (e-reserves--note: use the first version (326 KB) of this listed on the e-reserves page )
“’No Doubt’ Human Activity Is Affecting Global Climate, Top Scientists Conclude.” National Center for Atmospheric Research. (course website)
(Also take a quick look at Karl, Thomas R. and Kevin E. Trenberth. “Modern Global Climate Change.” Science 302(5, Dec. 5, 2003):1719-1723. (course website))
Topic: Forests
Dec. 2
Maxwell, Kenneth. “The Tragedy of the Amazon.” New York Review of Books 38(5), March 7, 1991. (course website)
Dec. 7
*Project #3 due
Dec. 9—Summing up
Sanders, Scott Russell. "Hope" (course website)
Dec. 16 Final exam, 5-7 p.m.