August 27
IUCN/UNEP/WWF. 1991. Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living.
Chapter 1. Gland: IUCN/UNEP/WWF.
September 1
Dixon, John A. and Louise A. Fallon. 1989. The Concept of Sustainability: Origins, Extensions, and Usefulness for Policy. Society and Natural Resources 2:73-84.
Barbier, Edward B. 1987. The Concept of Sustainable Economic Development. Environmental Conservation 14(2):101-110.
Goodland, Robert. 1995. The Concept of Environmental Sustainability. Annual Review of
Ecology and Systematics 26:1-24.
September 3
Campbell, C. Andrew. 1995. Landcare: Participative Australian Approaches to Inquiry and Learning for Sustainability. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. March/April 1995.
Lee, Kai N. 1993. Taking Measures. Chapter 1 in Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment. pp 7-17. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Blauert, Jutta and Simon Zadek. 1998. A Cautiously Optimistic Tale. In Mediating
Sustainability: Growing Policy from the Grassroots, pp 255-27. West Hartford, Conn:
Kumarian Press.
September 8
**Readings to be handed out.
September 10
**Readings to be handed out.
Rambo, A. Terry. 1997. The Fallacy of Global Sustainable Development. Analysis from the East-West Center, No. 30.
Callicott, J. Baird, and Karen Mumford. 1997. Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation
Concept. Conservation Biology 11(1):32-40.
Optional reading (in course packet):
Robinson, John G. 1993. The Limits to Caring: Sustainable Living and the Loss of
Biodiversity. Conservation Biology 7(1):20-28.
September 15
**Readings to be handed out.
September 17
Herring, Ron. 1998. Celebrating the Local: Scale and Orthodoxy in Political Ecology. In Governance Issues in Conservation and Development, edited by Goran Hyden, pp 35-51. CDF Discussion Paper, Conservation and Development Forum, Gainesville, Florida.
Little, Peter D. 1994. The Link Between Local Participation and Improved Conservation: A
Review of Issues and Experiences. In: Natural Connections: Perspectives in
Community-based Conservation. David Western and R. Michael Wright (eds) pp 347-372. Washington, DC: Island Press.
September 22
No readings.
September 24
Hardin, Garrett. 1968. The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162:1243-1248.
Feeny, David, Fikret Berkes, Bonnie J. McKay, and James Acheson. 1990. The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-two Years Later. Human Ecology 18(1):1-19.
Ostrom, Elinor, 1994. "Neither market Nor State: Governance of Common-Pool Resources in
the Twenty-first Century." IFPRI Lecture Series.
September 29
**Readings to be handed out.
October 1
Pimentel, David, Rebecca Harman, Matthew Pacenza, Jason Pecarsky, Marcia Pimentel. 1994. Natural Resources and an Optimum Human Population. Population and Environment 15(5):347-369.
Arizpe, Lourdes, and Margarita Velázquez. 1994. The Social Dimensions of Population. In
Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate. L. Arizpe, M. P. Stone, and D.C.
Major (eds). Boulder: Westview.
October 6
**Readings to be handed out.
October 8
No readings.
October 13--Fall Break
October 15
No readings