Sociology 370: Environment and society

Spring 2006

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Lecture material

 

This material should serve as a supplement to in-class discussion and your notes, and readings. You won't find it to be a complete source of information for what you need to know on exams (thought I'd just cut through the subtleties there ... ).

Week 1
Understanding big changes (and the POET model)
Humans and the environment, part I

Week 2
Mor(e) on humans and the environment
Week 3
Energy
More on energy
Week 4
Environmental ethics
Week 5
Technology

Week 7
Tragedy of the commons
Have humans overshot?
Thermodynamics (it would pay to review these concepts)
Week 8
Environmental racism
The myth of economic growth
Buddhist economics
Capitalism primer
Week 9
Risk society

 

 

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