COURSE OUTLINE & SCHEDULE
SPOL 624 - NATURE / SOCIETY THOUGHT AND SOCIAL POLICY
Week: Pre-Sesson - 1 - 2 -3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - FINAL WEEK
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| Pre-Session |
Pre-course reading assignment... | Netting, Robert M. 1986 . Cultural Ecology. Waveland Press, Inc. Read Chapter 1 and 6 Townsend. 2000. Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies. Waveland Press. Read Chapter 1 thru 6 Key Reading required: Ronnie D. Lipschut. 2004. Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives and Practice. CQ Press. Chapters 1-2 (pps. 1-86.) |
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| WK 1 | Review: Theory in the Social Sciences: Description, Explanation, Prediction, Prescription Ecological Theory & History in the Social Sciences - Overview -Cultural/Political Ecology --particularly as applied to international Sustainable Development Landscape Ecology and related schools of thought (see also Global Environmental Change and Sustainability Science) |
Eder, Klaus. 1996. The Social Construction of Nature: A Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment (* 256 pages ISBN: Cloth 0-8039-7848-0 / Paper 0-8039-7849-9). Read ENTIRE booklet Post-Modern Thought - review of key writers/thinkers - University of Colorado, Denver (Martin Ryder), School of Education - course: Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought. Dingler, Johannes- (abstract) Nature and the nature of power (PDF) Cloke, Paul, Chris Philo, and David Sadler. 1991. Approaching Human Geography: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Debates. Guilford Press. Others to be assigned....
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| WK 2 | Ecological Theory & History - Cultural and Political Ecology: The Social Construction of Nature | Zimmerer, Karl. and Thomas J. Bassett. 2003. Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies. Guilford Press. Read Chapter 1 and 14 Steward, Julian. 1955. Theory of Culture Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 30-42. Steward, Julian H. 1968. Cultural ecology. International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, 337344. Barrows, Harlan, H. 1923. Geography as human ecology. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 13:1-14. Zimmerer, Karl. 1994. Human geography and the 'new ecology': the prospect and promise of integration. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84:108-125. Atkinson, Adrian. 1991. Principles of Political Ecology. Belhaven Press. Nature, Wealth and Power - document from USAID (PDF) Others to be assigned.... |
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| WK 3 |
Ecological Theory & History - Cultural and Political Ecology - continued |
Case Studies in Cultural Ecology - to be assigned from:
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| WK 4 |
Heidi, Gale. 1998. This is My Father's World. Joy Publishing. Read ENTIRE booklet Low, Nicholas and Brendan Gleeson, 1998. Justice, Society and Nature Routledge, 1998. Faber, Daniel. 1998. The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. Guilford Press. Nash, Roderick Frazier. 1989. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. University of Wisconsin Press. Smith, Zachary A. 1995. The Environmental Policy Paradox. Prentice Hall. Assorted articles (SDA statements on religion and the environment) Other Readings: Worster, Donald. (1993). The Wealth of Nature -- Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press. Engel, J. Ronald and Joan Gibb Engel. Editors. 1990. Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response. London: Belhaven Press. Peet R. and M.Watts. 1996. Liberation Ecologies: environment, development, social movements. London: Routledge. Peterson, Anna L. 2001. Being Human--Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World. UC Press, 2001 Others to be assigned.... |
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| WK 5 |
Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC): Sustainability Science Theory & History Science and Technology for Sustainability Forum (Harvard) Toward a 21st Century Sustainability Transition Framework for Sustainability Science: A Renovated IPAT Identity. Other key sources:
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The Natural Stage and Global Change - Assignments to be given... National Academy of Science. 1999. Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability
Burton, Ian, Robert W. Kates and Gilbert F. White. 1993. The Environment as Hazard. Guilford Press. Goudie, Andrew. 1991. The Human Impact on the Natural Environment. MIT Press. Turner, B. L., II, William C. Clark, Robert W. Kates, John F. Richards, Jessica T. Mathews, and William B. Meyer, eds. 1990a. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press with Clark University. Long-Term Trends and a Sustainability Transition; and Characterizing a Sustainability Transition: Goals, Targets, Trends, and Driving Forces. Kates, Robert W., and Thomas M. Parris. 2003. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100(14) (8 July): 8062-8067, 8068-8073. Two articles included in the PNAS Special Feature on "Science and Technology for Sustainable Development." No. 1 - No. 2 Kasperson, Turner, et al: Regions at risk: comparisons of threatened environments and Case studies. UNU, Tokyo. Kasperson, Jeanne X., and Roger E. Kasperson. 2001. Global environmental risk. London: Earthscan. Other Resources: *Global Environmental Change HDGC / Introduction: Human Dimensions of Global Change
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| WK 6 |
Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC): Sustainability Science Theory & History - Continued Global Change Links - ORGANIZATIONS |
The Natural Stage and Global Change - Assignments to be given... Wood, Dennis. 2004. Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land. Guilford Press.
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| WK 7 | Environmental History and Literature Philosophy of the Environment |
Merchant. Carolyn. 2002. The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History. Columbia University Press. GO TO Environmental History and Literature and Ecologists and Environmentalists - ErraticImpact.com Abbey, Edward. 1997. The Monkey Wrench Gang Avon. Frederick, Duke, William L. Howenstine, and June Sochen. 1972. Destroy to Create: Interaction with the Natural Environment in the Building of America. Dryden Press. Key Figures in Environmental History and Ethics Zimmerman, Michael E. et. al, 2000. Environmental Philosophy Prentice-Hall, 2000. Macauley, David. 1996. Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology. Guilford Press.
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| WK 8 |
Social Ecology History and Theory Environmental Perception, Psychology and Behavioral Geography |
Binder, A., Stokols, D., & Catalano, R. 1975. Social ecology: An emerging multidiscipline. Journal of Environmental Education, 7, 32-43. Hannigan, J. 1995. Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. Routledge, London. Brookfield, Harold. 1975. On the environment as perceived. Progress in Geography 1:51-80. Golledge, Reginald G. and Robert J. Stimson. 1997. Spatial Behavior: A Geographic Perspective. Guilford Press. Kirk, William. 1951. Historical geography and the concept of behavioural environment. Silver Jubilee Souvenir and N. C. Subrahmanyam Memorial Volume, Indian Geographical Society, 25:152-160. Pasqualetti, Martin J. 1997. The Evolving Landscape: Home Aschmann's Geography. John's Hopkins University Press. Jackson, J.B., Peirce F. Lewis, David Lowenthal, D.W. Meinig, Marwyn S. Samules, David Sopher, and Yi-Fu Tuan. 1979. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays. Oxford University Press. |
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| WK 9 Top |
Radical and Deep Ecology / Ecofeminism
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Kirby, Kathleen. 1996. Indifferent Boundaries: Spatial Concepts of Human Subjectivity. Guilford Press. Light, Andrew. 1998. Social Ecology after Bookchin. Guildford Press. Lewis, Martin W. 1992. Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism. Duke University Press. Rocheleau D, Thomas-Slayter B, Wangari E (eds.) 1996. Feminist Political Ecology. Routledge. (Intro. and Conclusion). O'Connor, Martin. 1994. Is Capitalism Sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology. Guilford Press. Others to be assigned... |
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| WK 10 |
Landscape Ecology and Design - Theory and History - continued | Luccarelli, Mark. 1997. Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: the Politics of Planning. Guilford Press. Mitchell, Don. 2003. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. Guilford Press. Others to be assigned... |
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| WK 11 | Institutions, Business, Work, Health, and the Policy Environment |
Natrass, Brian and Mary Altomare. 1999. The Natural Step for Business. New Society Publishers. Levenstein, Charles and John Wooding. 1997. Work, Health, and Environment Old Problems, New Solutions. Guilford Press. Mitchell, Bruce. 1979. Geography and Resource Analysis. Longman Scientific. Natural Capitalism and related topics and see also Motherjones site Natural Step.org - home Nature, Wealth and Power - document from USAID (PDF)
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| FINAL
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EXAM WEEK - Submit Final WRITTEN Project via BLACKBOARD |
Late Projects Due
LAST DAY |
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Last revised: November 18, 2004