GEO 131: Global Environmental Issues: Topics &
Readings
Mutersbaugh
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Topics
Readings
Intro: Syllabus;
Readings; Course
Organization
Biodiversity
Friday
8/29
Wed 8/31
Gould: nature's odd couplesOR THE PANDA’S THUMB?
Conservation
Biology and
Biodiversity:
types of
biodiversity,
Evolutionary
Processes
Ideas of Nature
Western Ideas of Nature
Glacken: Traces
Glacken: Introduction -- Ideas of Nature
Glacken: Judeo-Christian Ideas of Nature
Glacken: Francis Bacon, Controlling the
Earth
Francis Bacon: New Atlantis
or New Atlantis on Project
Gutenberg
Movies: Affluenza
Non-Western Ideas of Nature
Shoshtak: Nisa's life in the Kalajari Bush (Botswana)
Gonzalez: Zapotec Science 'Maize has a soul' (Mexico)
Parkes: Fengshui (China)
Yoon: East Asian ideas of nature (read second part of
article)
Videos:
Iskay Yachay - Two Kinds of Knowledge
(Part 1)
Iskay Yachay - Two Kinds of Knowledge
(Part 2)
Iskay Yachay - Two Kinds of Knowledge
(Part 3)
Iskay Yachay - Two Kinds of Knowledge
(Part 4)
Intro to
Environmental
Destruction:
Commodity
Chains
Week of
September
8th
(M,W,F)
Gereffi: industrial product commodity chains
Commodity-Chains
Cronin 'The Wealth of Nature: Lumber'
Cronon: Photos from 'The Wealth of Nature: Lumber'
The Carbon
Footprint;
Soft Paths, Hard
Paths and Global
Warming
Herald-Leader: Lexington Carbon
Footprint/Brookings Carbon Footprint report
Marilyn A. Brown and Elise Logan: The Residential
Energy and Carbon Footprints of the 100 Largest U.S.
Metropolitan Areas
Southworth, Sonnenberg, and Brown: The Transportation
Energy and Carbon Footprints of the 100 Largest U.S.
Metropolitan Areas
Dynamics of
Habitat
Destruction:
commoditization
of nature
Green
Managerialism:
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/
Jesse Ribot: Charcol production in Senegal
Susanna Hecht: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Paul Robbins: Trees, Bureaucracy and Modernity in India
Sundberg in New Geographies of Conservation
Conservation and
Culture
Green
Managerialism:
‘Selling Nature to
Save It' and
Fortress
Conservation
Sneddon in New Geographies of Conservation
Turner in New Geographies of Conservation
MacAfee: 'Selling Nature to Save It'
Hughes, D, (2001) ‘Rezoned for business: how eco-tourism unlocked
black farmland in eastern Zimbabwe' Journal of Agrarian Change 1(4):
575-99.
Homewood K, Brockington D Biodiversity, conservation and
development in Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania GLOBAL
ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 8 (3-4): 301-313 MAY-JUL 1999
Alternative
Strategies for
Non-Territorial
Conservation
Sierra in New Geographies of Conservation
Mutersbaugh Fairtrade-Organic Networks in New Geographies of
Conservation
Sears, Padoch et al. Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
Terroir and Food Regions: the EU and the Global South
Chico Mendes: Fight for the Forest
Toxics:
Nuclear &
BioWeapons
Testing: Global
Dead Zones
Nuclear Energy
and
Decommissioning
vs. Sustainable
sources
Solar, Wind,
Geothermal,
Conservation:
Why not?
Farm to Plate: the
global food chain
Intellectual
Property Rights,
Seeds and the
Green Revolution
Rachael Carson: Silent Spring
Davis. 'Dead West: Ecocide in Marlboro Country'
Northern Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power in the Global South: Mexico
Nuclear fuel cycles and proliferation
Peak Energy
Mansfield B, 2003, Fish, factory trawlers, and imitation crab: the nature
of quality in the seafood industry JOURNAL OF RURAL
STUDIES19(1): 9-21
Pollan M. 2000. ‘The Organic-Industrial Complex’
Kloppenburg & Kleinman. 'Seed Wars: Common
Heritage, Private Property, and Political Strategy' (Reader)
Food &
Environmental
Degradation: Soil
Erosion
Ecological
agriculture and
peasant farming
Political Economy of Soil Erosion and Desertification
WinklerPrins in New Geographies of Conservation
B Traven: Mexican farmers
Padoch: Farmers and Conservation
Toxic
Contamination of
Biosphere:
Overview
Ecoconsumerism
(green products,
ecotourism)
Ecotrade
Epidemiology:
Studying Toxics
and Workers
Biocides and
Fertilizers in
Fields, Food and
Drinking Water
Food and Inputs:
Toxics and
Alternatives
Waste disposal
and export,
conventional
Pollution Politics
and Social Justice
Environmental
Social
Movements,
Indigenous and
Peasant
Mutersbaugh: Non-Territorial Conservation
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
Robbins and Sharp. 2003. "Producing and Consuming
Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn"
Economic Geography 79(4): 425-451.
Pesticides in the Developing World
Ocean Dead Zones
Henwood. 'Toxic Banking'
Swaney: Summers' Memo
UN Climate Report and Valuation of Crops and Peoples
Bullard 'Anatomy of Environmental Justice' (Reader)
Swaney 'So What's Wrong with Dumping on Africa?' (Reader)
Pearce. 'Price of life sends temperatures soaring' (Reader)
Pulido L, 2000, Rethinking environmental racism: White
privilege and urban development in southern
CaliforniaANN ASSOC AM GEOGR 90 (1): 12-40
Zapatista Web Site: www.ezln.org
Chico Mendes: Amazon Rubber-TapperÍs Union
Resistance
Gender and the
Environment
Sustainable
Futures
Demographic
Transitions &
Situated
Rationalities
Schroeder R, 1997, Re-Claiming Land in the Gambia:
Gendered Property Rights and Environmental Intervention
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Erlich: Population Bomb
Sen: 100 Million Women are Missing
Global Migrations: