"UN
Reports Pollution Threat Over Asia,"
New York Times, November 13,
2008
"Pollution
from Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow," New York Times,
June 11, 2006
Marvin Soroos, "Preserving
the Atmosphere as a Global Commons," Environment,
March 1998 (handout)
Suggested readings:
"Earth's Ozone Shield is Poised for Recovery.'" Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 2006
February 16, 2009 - Global
Climate Change: Is it the
Ultimate Environmental Challenge? (lecture outline) (other articles - science)
Suggested readings:
EPA, Climate Change Website (browse)
UNEP, Fact Sheet: Climate Change at a Glance (good basic introduction to the topic)
Air Pollution and Climate Secretariat, "Fact Sheet---Kyoto Protocol"
Paul Saunders and Vaughan Turekian, "Why Climate Change Can't be Stopped," Foreign Policy, September 2007
Climate Ark Newsfeed (extensive compendium of newspaper articles on climate change)
National Snow and Ice Data Center (See "Cryosphere in the News"--right column below)
Suggested readings:
"Sea of Troubles; Man is Assaulting the Oceans. They Will Smite Him if He Does Not Take Care," Economist, December 30, 2008
"More Abused Than Used," Economist, December 30, 2008
"Scramble for the Seabed," Economist, December 30, 2008
"Troubled Waters," Economist, December 30, 2008
"Grabbing It All: In Most Places Fisheries Policies Have Completely Failed," Economist, December 30, 2008
"The Curse of Carbon: A Meltdown Tinged with Acid," Economist, December 30, 2008
UN Division for Ocean Affairs, "UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Historical Perspective"
Suggested readings:
Suggested websites:
Lester Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Earth Policy Institute, 2006
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Viking 2005
Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution----And How it Can Renew America, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008
Taras
Grescoe, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing
Seafood. Bloombury, 2008.
Donald Kennedy, State
of the Planet, 2006-2007, Island Press, 2006 (collection from editors of Science and
sponsored by AAAS.
John and Teresa Kerry, This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future, Public Affairs, 2007
Elizabeth Kolbert, Field
Notes from a Catastrophe: Man,
Nature, and Climate Change, Bloomsbury, 2006
Eugene Linden, The
Winds of
Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of
Civilizations, Simon & Schuster, 2006
George Monbiot, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, South End Press, 2007
Fred Pearce, When
the Rivers Run Dry: The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First
Century, Beacon Press, 2006
Joseph Romm, Hell and High Water: Gloibal Warming---the Solution and the Politics---and What We Do. HarperCollins, 2006.
Chris Wood,
Dry
Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of
Worldwatch Institute, Vital
Signs 2007-2008: The
Trends that Are Shaping Our Future, 2006
Worldwatch Institute, State
of the World 2008, 2006
Classic Articles in the Environmental Field
Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 162(1968):1243-1248
Kenneth Boulding, "Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth," 1966
Websites and Miscellaneous
