PART I: INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS & CC
Class 1 (June 27): Class Orientation
* Class orientation/introductions
* Selection of countries for written reports.
* A Step Back Excerpts (pdf)
Familiarize Yourself with these Articles/Cases:
* Epoch Times, "Inuit Culture, Frozen in Time, Now Melting Away", Aug 18-25, 2005.
* Nature Magazine (2005). Hurricane Intensity and Global Warming
* "The Sinking of Tuvalu," Feb. 13, 2005 (with pictures)
* "Uncertainty Grips the Arctic: Climate Change Impacting Northern Ecosystems", Aug 27, 2005.
* “Supreme Court will hear case on Climate Change,” June 26, 2006
* Slate, “How to Win a Global Warming Case”
* McKibben, "The Big Picture: Climate Change too slow for Hollywood, too fast for the rest of us," May 4, 2004
Class 2 (June 29): Orientation to Environmental Problems: Climate Change
* Take Ecological Footprint Quiz
* GEIL, Chapter 1, “Worldwide Environmental Quality & the Role of Law,” pp. 1-12.
* RS, Prologue pp. 1-12; Chapter 1, pp. 13-22.
* RS, Chapter 6, “Ten Drivers of Environmental Deterioration,” pp. 119-139; and Chapter 7, “Globalization and the Environment,” pp. 140-7.
* Flannery (2006), The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What is Means for Life on Earth, pp. 19-35 (reserve).
* For these two chapters, go here (linked to my 41A class where these readings are uploaded):
Chapter 2, "The Great Aerial Ocean," pp. 19-26 (reserve).
Chapter 3, "The Gaseous Greenhouse," pp. 27-35 (reserve).
* GPB, Garrett Hardin (1968) "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science 162:3859, pp. 1243-48. Dec. 13; or in GPB, 37-44.
* From JSTOR, find the volume range (161-170), and then select the number, and select the article.
* GEG, Chapter 1, “Introduction: Toward Planetary Stewardship,” pp. 1-11 and pp. 23-29 (reserve).
* GPB, Conca and Dabelko, “Introduction,” 1-12 (reserve).
* GPB, Susan Buck, “No Tragedy on the Commons,” pp. 45-53 (reserve).
* GPB, Meadows et al., “The Limits of Growth,” pp. 24-28 (reserve).
KEY:
GEIL = The Global Environment and International Law, Joe DiMento, University of Texas Press (2003).
RS = Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press (2004).
GPB = Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics From Stockholm to Johannesburg, Ken Conca and Geoffrey Dabelko, Westview (2004).
ED = Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements, Lawrence E. Susskind, Oxford University Press (1996).
GEG = Global Environmental Governance, James Gustave Speth & Peter M. Haas, Island Press (2006) (Just came out, book itself not on reserve—only pdf files).
GE = The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy, Regina Axelrod, David Downie, and Norman Vig, CQ Press (2005).