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UNIT 1. The Global Environment: An Emerging World View 1.How Many Planets? A Survey of the Global Environment, The Economist , July 6, 2002 In a series of six interconnected short essays, the editors of The Economist present an up-to-date summary of global environmental issues, including sustainable development, the amount of information available on the environment, climate change, and the role of both technology and market forces in helping to shape the future of environmental systems. 2.Five Meta-Trends Changing the World, David Pearce Snyder, The Futurist , July/August 2004 The process of globalization has produced increasing modernization among both contemporary and modern cultures. Will human adaptability be enough to offset the massive culture changes that accompany such meta-trends as development of a global economy and society? 3.Crimes of (a) Global Nature, Lisa Mastny and Hilary French, World Watch , September/October 2002 One of the more dramatic but least-known global economic phenomena is the illegal traffic in endangered species. Demands for rare pets, aphrodisiacs, or clothing ensure that this international environmental crime will continue to grow. But more than just a trade in biological commodities, this new set of illegal activities that violate international environmental accords also includes dumping of hazardous wastes and the manufacture and use of environmentally-destructive materials. 4.Advocating For the Environment: Local Dimensions of Transnational Networks, Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues, Environment , March 2004 Many of the achievements of the global environmental movement have been attained through the work of advocacy groups that are transnational. The “greening” of development banking and the development of a commission to study the impact of damming rivers are among such achievements. But much of the transnational environmental movement still has a very local base among small groups of committed individuals. 5.Rescuing a Planet Under Stress, Lester R. Brown, The Humanist , November/December 2003 According to a National Academy of Sciences report, around 1980 the collective demands of humans upon Earth’s resource base exceeded the regenerative capacity of global environmental systems . In economic terms this has produced a “bubble” economy that will keep expanding until it bursts—or until humans decide to stabilize population growth and climate and eliminate both environmental change and human poverty. 6.Globalizing Greenwash, Pamela Foster, New Internationalist , March 2004 The World Bank is one of the most important components of the international economic and monetary system. The Bank has long been criticized for funding projects which produce environmental problems . Although the Bank has promised to begin to focus on funding sustainable economic growth rather than, for example, dams that may produce more harm than good, critics question whether the Bank can or will change. UNIT 2. Population, Policy, and Economy 7.Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to Know, Robert W. Kates, Environment , April 2000 A general consensus exists among scientists that the roots of the current environmental crisis are to be found in a combination of population growth , affluence, and increasing technology . No such consensus exists, however, about the ultimate cause of either population growth or the desire to consume. Notwithstanding this lack of agreement, society needs to sublimate the desire to acquire things for the good of the global commons . 8.An Economy for the Earth, Lester R. Brown, The Humanist , May/June 2002 A shift in economic theory similar to the transition between the Ptolemaic geocentric universe and the Copernican model is necessary to save the Earth from continuing environmental degradation. Will we continue to see the environment as a subset of the economy, resulting in an economy that is disjunctive with the ecosystem, or begin to see the economy as a subset of the environment, allowing us to produce an environmentally sustainable economy? 9.Factory Farming in the Developing World, Danielle Nierenberg, World Watch , May/June 2003 The spread of factory farming —the intensive raising of livestock and poultry in enclosed conditions—has allowed meat to become a more important part of diets worldwide. It has also reduced local diversity of breeds and increased the dangers from animal diseases. As more developed countries place stricter environmental regulations on factory farming, this industrialized agriculture spreads to developing countries with weaker or no legislation. 10.Why Race Matters in the Fight for a Healthy Planet, Jennifer Hattam, Sierra , May/June 2004 One of the issues most often ignored, even by well-meaning environmental activist groups, is that of environmental justice , the notion that such variables as race or economic status should not work against the environmental quality of any specific location. Within the last decade, however, one of the oldest and most powerful environmental advocacy organizations, the Sierra Club , has taken important stands on issues of the importance of quality of life for all. 11.Will Frankenfood Save the Planet?, Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic Monthly , October 2003 One of the more promising solutions to a global food shortage is the continuing development of biotechnology , including but not limited to such things as genetic engineering, that might be able to do such things as reducing erosion while simultaneously producing more food. Environmental groups, however, have a well-established suspicion of artificial substances that are necessarily part of the new agricultural technologies. UNIT 3. Energy: Present and Future Problems 12.Powder Keg, Keith Kloor, Audubon , December 2002 In the vast open spaces of the American West, energy development in the form of natural gas extraction competes with livestock raisers for the same land. Much of the problem lies in the curious nature of mineral rights in which the owners of the minerals under the land are often different from the owners of the land itself—and mineral rights nearly always take precedence over surface rights. 13.Personalized Energy: The Next Paradigm, Stephen M. Millett, The Futurist , July/August 2004 Several facts about energy consumption need to be recognized: any use of energy is going to have some negative environmental impacts, current reliance on fossil fuels cannot continue, most alternative energy systems (such as wind or solar power) are still inefficient enough to be very expensive. The solution that many energy experts are seeking is a scaling down of energy production and control—from huge power
| ISBN-13 | 9780073528311 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0073528315 |
| Weight | 1.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.30 x 0.60 x 10.80 In |
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| Edition | 24th Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 256 pages |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill/Dushkin |
| Published On | 2005-04-01 |
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