Course Schedule

Course Schedule*

Section I: Value Conflicts and their Influence on Environmental Policy

Classes

Topics

Readings

Assignments

8/20

8/25

Introduction

	Challenges of making envtl. policy
	Envtl. governance: actors & institutions
	Science, human values, and public policy
	We’ve come a long way but there is work to be done

	R: 1 - 43
	H: 1– 28

8/27

9/3

9/8

9/10

Human Values and Envtl. Problems

	Problem framing/Problem solving
	Causes of envtl. problems
	Values, norms, and ethics
	Envtl. justice
	ELF

H: 51 – 89; 206 – 225

	Issue Asst #1 (9/3)
	Issue Asst. #2 (9/8)

9/15

9/17

9/22

Common Pool Resources (CPRs)

	CPRs
	Population control
	Property rights

	"Tragedy of the Commons" (RES)
	The New England Fisheries Crisis (RES)
	Lorax (R)
	H: 226 – 248

	CPR simulation (9/15)
	CPR asst (9/17)
	Issue Asst. #3 (9/22)

9/24

Preservation vs. Multiple Use

	Conflicts over multiple uses
	Conflicting federal/state policies
	Forest protection vs. harvest
	Endangered species act

R: 305 - 341

10/1

Mid-Term #1

Section II: Formulating, Implementing, and Evaluating Environmental Policy

10/6

Policy Process

Basic stages of the policy process

	R: 44 - 93
	H: 119 – 149

10/8

10/13

Governing is Choosing

	Political ecosystem: Governance vs. government
	Federalism and its impact on environmental policy
	Use of science and risk assessment
	C-B analysis

R: 94 - 119; 120 - 153; 154 - 182; 229 - 268

Issue Asst #4 (10/20)

10/15

Role of Science

	Scientific vs. time and place information
	Trans science problems
	Focusing events/agenda setting and the role the media plays

Issue Asst #5 (10/15)

Section III: Exploring Selected Environmental Issues and Problems

10/20

10/22

10/27

Land Development and its Impact on Water Quality

	Point vs. nonpoint pollution
	Command and control vs. other policy instruments
	Pollutants and sources of water quality problems
	Urban sprawl
	Tyranny of small decisions

	EPA Water quality report (W)
	R: 183 - 228
	Cooper: Water Quality: The Issues (RES)

Watershed simulation & memo (10/27)

10/29

11/3

11/5

11/10

Energy Policy

	Fossil fuels
	Nuclear energy and waste disposal
	Exploring for energy on public lands
	Drilling in ANWR?

	R: 269 - 304
	ANWR background (RES)
	Energy readings (RES)
	Bush Energy Policy (W)

	Issue Asst #6 (11/3)
	ANWR debate (11/10)

11/12

11/17

Global Warming

	What the science tells us
	What can be done? What should be done?
	The challenge of making policy to address this "problem"

	H: 90 – 118
	R: 342 - 381

Issue Asst #7 (11/17)

11/19

Mid-Term Exam #2

11/24

12/1

Biotechnology and the Human Genome

	Is biotechnology the solution to problems or the cause of new problems
	Values/ethics problems
	How do you govern the use of science and technology?

Issue Asst #8 (11/24)

12/3

	Course evaluations
	Review for final exam

12/8

Take Home Final Exam is Due at 2:30

R = Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy; H = Hemple, Environmental Governance; RES = Reading is on reserve; W = reading is contained in link on the class web site. All Issue Memo readings are on reserve.

*Class schedule is subject to change.

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