ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES SCHEDULE - FALL 2011
This is a tentative list of topics and assignment due dates. Full details will be added to this site as links or handed out in class. Some links will be changed as the date approaches, so don't waste paper and time printing stuff now.
| DATE | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENT |
| 9/6 | Introduction: What is an Environmental Issue? | Top 5 issues |
| 9/8 | Issue Briefs & Ethics | Issue Brief: Top issue Read: Handout (check your email) on climate change |
| 9/13 | Natural Resources Concepts | Resource Stream: select resource |
| 9/15 | ENVL Ethics: Future Environments | Environment Age 5 & future Issue Brief: Top issue draft due MONDAY NOON |
| 9/20 | Sustainability: what it is and how we can assess it. | |
| 9/22 | LIBRARY how to use databases and other resources. | Resource Stream 1: Source, Extraction & Transportation |
| 9/27 | Global Issues: Demographics |
Issue
Brief: Top issue final due The doubling effect |
| 9/29 | Global Issues: Development |
Chipko article |
| 10/4 | Global Issues: Climate | Climate change handouts |
| 10/6 | Global Issues: Biodiversity | |
| 10/11 | Development and sustainability | Climate change summit |
| 10/13 | National Issues: Constitution | Declaration of Independence, Constitution |
| 10/18 | National Issues: Property Rights | Boulding: "Property, Whose
Right?" Issue Brief: Global issue final due |
| 10/20 | National Issues: Breaking the logjam & Pesticides and Risk | Breaking the
Logjam Report, pp 1-15 |
| 10/25 | Preceptorial - no class | Resource Stream 2: Processing & Manufacturing |
| 10/27 | National Issues: Endangered Species, Invasive Species | Breaking the Logjam Report pp 16-22 |
| 11/1 | National Issues: Environmental justice | Breaking the Logjam Report pp 23-25 |
| 11/3 | Federal
Issues conclusion State Issues: NJ - the state...or? NJ Bears |
Breaking the
Logjam Report pp 26-28 Issue Brief: Environmental bill final due |
| 11/8 | NJ Laws
and Regulations Greenhouse gases |
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| 11/10 | State Issues: Landuse and Planning | Resource Stream 3: Storage, Use & Disposal |
| 11/15 | State Issues: Pinelands | |
| 11/17 | State Issues: Water Quality | Resource Stream PowerPoint |
| 11/22 | Local Issues: Planning & Zoning | Issue Brief: State |
| 11/24 | NO CLASS | |
| 11/29 | Environmental ethics | Energy and equity |
| 12/1 | Local Issues: Watershed | |
| 12/6 | Watershed Partnerships | Fred Akers, Great Egg Harbor
Watershed Association Resource Stream Final PowerPoint |
| 12/8 | Environmental ethics | READ
The Land Ethic
Issue Brief: Local Due |
| 12/13 | Resource Stream presentation | LAST DAY TO TURN IN CLASSWORK |