Globalization and Sustainability
T SC 220
Spring 2015
Instructors: [
Mark Bryden
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Arne Hallam
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Richard LeSar
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Class Location & Time: MWF 11:00--11:50 in Howe 1240
Course Information: [
Syllabus (pdf)
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Contact Information (pdf)
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Sustainability Minor Information and Requirements
General Handouts
How to Write a Newspaper Article
List of Action Verbs
Bloom's Taxonomy
Millennium Development Goals
Reading Questions on Biodiversity and Human Well-being
Various Presentations From Various Years
Good, Bads, and Public Goods
What Should We Expect from Biofuels
Introduction to Sustainability
Social Sustainability
Geological Perspectives on Sustainability
Energy --- Lecture 1
Population Principles --- Growth & Decline
Amazon Sustainability
Energy --- Lecture 2
Economic Sustainability
Sustainability and Rural Businesses 2010
Energy --- Lecture 3
Materials --- Lecture 1
Sustainability and Rural Businesses 2011
Energy --- Lecture 4
Materials --- Alex King
Landscape Biomass 2010
Challenges Facing Energy in Iowa
Materials --- Lecture 2
Landscape Biomass 2011
Systems --- Lecture 1
Materials --- Karl Gschneidner
Live Green -- ISU
Systems --- Lecture 2
Materials --- Lecture 3
Environmental Systems --- Lecture 1
Villages --- Lecture 2
Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
Climate Change -- Takle
Sustainable Cities
Malian Village
Systems --- Lecture 3
Water Sustainability
Economics and Sustainability
Externalities
Newspaper articles and such
Oil With No Apology
Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
Does Helping the Planet Hurt the Poor?
Global Warming --- Hacked e-mails
The Carnivore's Dilemma
The Bathtub Analogy
Money and Morals
The Bread We Waste
EU Bans ... Carbon Offsets
Greenhouse Gases and the Amazon
The Omnivore's Delusion
Peak Coal?
Building A Green Economy --- Krugman
Perishing Possessions
Conflicts over Materials
Raw Materials Prices
Enviropigs
Rare Materials
Energy for the Future --- Gates and Holliday
Animal, Vegetable, Miserable
Detroit
Our Man-Made Energy Crisis
Readings
Types of Sustainability
Sustainable Agriculture
The Precautionary Principle
What Kind of Landscape?
The Concept of Environmental Sustainability --- Goodland
MacroSystems -- Abel
Tragedy of the Commons -- Hardin
Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-being
Common Property -- Wade
Demand Management for Water Use in India
Social Dilemmas -- Dawes
Water Pricing in Jordan
Chimps and Ultimatum Games -- Jensen et. al.
A Targeted Conservation Approach for Improving Environmental Quality
Agent Based Complex Systems
Conservation Goals and Endangered Species
Population Growth and Collapse
The Problem of Social Cost --- Ronald Coase
Population Aggregation --- Janssen
Property Rights --- Anderson and Grewell
FlocksHerdsSchools
Collective Action --- Ostrum
Easter Island -- Diamond
A Review of the Stern Review on Climate Change -- Nordhaus
Social Sustainability: Towards Some Definitions
A Review of the Stern Review on Climate Change -- Weitzman
Human Development and Economic Sustainability
Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems
Agroecology as Development
Links
AASHE
Our Common Future
WorldWatch Institute
Learning Objectives - ISU
Our Common Future -- Chapter 2
United Nations
Global Resource Systems Major
Global Development Resource Center
The Oil Drum
Environmental Studies Major
Leopold Center
The Anthropic Network
Facing the Future
Ecolab
Foundation for Global Sustainability
Millennium Development Goals