Humanities 161 - Spring 2005

Books, Articles, Essays and Reports

 

It is particularly important to complete all assigned reading on time in preparation for interacting with the invited speakers as well as for actively participating in the Discussion Sessions.  There is one required text, which may be purchased at the University Bookstore or at a bookstore/website of your choice.  This text is:

    Deffeyes, K. S. 2001. Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

Additional required reading will include articles, essays, etc. handed out in class or accessible via web links in the list below.  We recommend that you also examine items in the Recommended Reading list as supplements to the required reading and as possible sources for your Paragraphs and Research Papers (see Course Assignments).  We will add items to this list during the semester.


REQUIRED READING

Appenzeller, T., Dimick, D. R. and Essick, P. 2004. The heat is on: Introduction. National Geographic, Vol. 206, No. 3, 2-11.

Appenzeller, T. and Leen, S. 2004. The end of cheap oil. National Geographic, Vol. 205, No. 6, 72-109.

Barbash, J.E., 2003.  The Geochemistry of Pesticides, in Holland, H.D., and Turekian, K.K., eds., Treatise of Geochemistry, Vol.9 (Environmental Geochemistry), Chapter 15, p. 541-577: New York, Elsevier. p. 541-546, 570

Barbash, J.E., and Resek, E.A., Pesticides in Ground Water - U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-422-95, 13 p.

Chow, J., Kopp, R. J. and Portney, P. R. 2003. Energy resources and global development. State of the Planet series, Science, Vol. 302, 28 November, 1528-1531.

Deffeyes, K. S. 2001. Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

Gellings, C. W. and Yeager, K. E. 2004. Transforming the electric infrastructure. Physics Today, Vol. 57, December, 45-51.

Gilligan, J. M. 2005. Science, Prediction, and Risk. Class handout.

Gilligan, J. M. 2005. The Age of Fossil Fuels Part I: The Middle Ages through 1973. Class handout.

Gleick, P. H. 2003. Global freshwater resources: Soft-path solutions for the 21st century. State of the Planet series, Science, Vol. 302, 28 November, 1524-1528.

Gleick, P. H. 2001.  Where's Waldo? A Review of The Skeptical Environmentalist (Bjorn Lomborg). Union of Concerned Scientists, November, 1-10.

Glennon, R. 2002. The perils of groundwater pumpingIssues in Science & Technology, Fall.  

Glick, D. and Essick, P. 2004. The heat is on: GeoSigns. National Geographic, Vol. 206, No. 3, 12-33.

Hardin, G. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science, Vol. 162, 13, December, 1243-1248.

Lomborg, B. 2001. Chapters 1, 11 and 13 in The Skeptical Environmentalist. Cambridge University Press, 515 pp. (Chapter 1 PDF)

Makhijani, Arjun. 1996.  The Nuclear Power Deception.  Chapter 2: Electricity Production and
Nuclear Reactors
. Institute for Energy and the Environmental Research.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2003. The Future of Nuclear Power.

Maugeri, L. 2003. Not in oil's name. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 82, July-August, 165-168.

Montaigne, F. and Essick, P. 2004. The heat is on: EcoSigns. National Geographic, Vol. 206, No. 3, 34-55.

Morell, V. and Essick, P. 2004. The heat is on: TimeSigns. National Geographic, Vol. 206, No. 3, 56-75.

Morgan, M. G., and Tierney, S. F. 1998. Research Support for the Power Industry. Issues in Science & Technology,  Vol. XV, Fall, pp. 81-87.

Postel, S. L. and Wolf, A. T. 2001. Dehydrating conflict. Foreign Policy, 126, Sep/Oct, 60-67.

University of Chicago's Department of Economics, the Graduate School of Business, and the Harris School of Public Policy.  2001. The Economic Future of Nuclear Power.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2005.  Setting standards for safe drinking water: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, online document, 4 p.

Vandenbergh, M. P. 2004. From Smokestack to SUV: The Individual as Regulated Entity in the New Era of Environmental Law. Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 57, March, No. 2, 515-523, 537-559.

Ward, D. R. 2002. Chapter 3 in Water Wars. Penguin Putnam, 368 pp.

Wood, David.  Greening Derrida: The Eleventh Plague

 

RECOMMENDED READING

Bartlett, A. A. 2004. Thoughts on long-term energy supplies: Scientists and the silent lie. Physics Today, Vol. 57, July.

Bartlett, A. A.  2000.  Arithmetic, Population, and Energy.  Excerpt from Proceedings of the Energy Efficiency Policy Symposium, November, 78-114.

Burnett, J. N. 1991. Gasoline: From Unwanted By-product to Essential Fuel for the Twentieth Century. Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y., 134 pp.

Campbell, C. J. and Laherrere, J. H. 1998. The end of cheap oil. Scientific American, March, 78-83.

Cohen, J. E. 1996. Chapter 14, Water: A case study of natural constraints. in How Many People Can the Earth Support? New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 544 pp.

Crabtree, G. W., Dresselhaus, M. S. and Buchanan, M. V. 2004. The hydrogen economy. Physics Today, Vol. 57, December, 39-44.

Crichton, M. 2004. State of Fear. Harper Collins Publishers, 603 pp.

Gleick, P. H. 1993. Water and conflict: Fresh water resources and international security. International Securtiy, Vol. 18, No. 1, Summer, 79-112.

Gleick, P. H. 1999. Water Futures: A Review of Global Water Resources Projections. Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, April, 1-26.

Gore, A. 1992. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Houghton Mifflin, 407 pp.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2001. Summary for Policy makers: A Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Laherrere, J. 2001. Estimates of oil reserves. Presented at IIASA, June, 1-92.

Loraine J. A. 1973. Medicine and the Energy Crisis. The Lancet, Vol. 302, 7828, September, 551-553.

Lovins, A. B., Datta, E. K., Bustnes, O-E, Koomey, J. G. and Glasgow, N. J. 2004. Winning the Oil Endgame. Rocky Mountain Institute, Snowmass, Colorado, 332 pp. 

Lowi, M. R. 1993. Bridging the divide: Transboundary resource disputes and the case of West Bank water. International Soceity, Vol. 18, No. 1, Summer, 113-138. 

Manning, R. 2003. The oil we eat: Following the food chain back to Iraq. Harper's Magazine, Vol. 308, 01 February, p. 37.

Romm, J. J. 2004. The hype about hydrogen. Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XX, Spring, pp. 71-81.

Rosegrant, M. W., Cai, X. and Cline, S. A. 2002. Global Water Outlook to 2025: Averting an Impending Crisis. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., 36 pp.

Rosegrant, M. W., Cai, X. and Cline, S. A. 2002. Water and Food to 2025: Policy Responses to the Threat of Scarcity. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., 6 pp.

Sperling, D. and Ogden, J. 2004. The hope for hydrogen. Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XX, Spring 2004, pp. 82-86.

Weisz, P. B. 2004. Basic choices and constraints on long-term energy supplies. Physics Today, Vol. 57, July.



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