Readings: Egeo 209 Fall 2004 Schedule --- DRAFT 9/21/04
Topic Date   Reading  
  Sept 23 none  
Population Change   28 Demographic Transition -- Keith Montgomery  http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/Demotrans/demtran.htm Go to Web Page
    30 Too few children and too much family    -- Massimo Livi-Bacci,  David Landes.  Daedalus Boston:Summer 2001.  Vol. 130,  Iss. 3,  p. 139-155 (18 pp.) Go to Library Reserve Page
  Oct 5 Immigration: Not a solution to problems of population decline and aging -- John R Bermingham.  Population And Environment New York:Mar 2001.  Vol. 22,  Iss. 4,  p. 355-363  Go to Library Reserve Page
    7 The East is Grey  -- Jonathan Watts, Gaurdian Unlimited, Sept. 9, 2004.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1300723,00.html  Go to Web Page
      One Child Policy Too Successful  -- Reuters in Beijing Wednesday September 8, 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1299389,00.html  Go to Web Page
    12 none quiz  
Social Collapse   14 Mystery of the Maya -- Useful Resource Page Go to Web Page
    19 The Maya's Arid End -- Gaia Vince. New Scientist London: Mar 22, 2003, Vol. 177, p. 19 Go to Library Reserve Page
      Climate and the collapse of maya civilization -- Gerald H Haug; Detlef Gunther; Larry C Peterson; Daniel M Sigman; et al, Science; Mar 14, 2003; vol. 299, pp. 1731-1735. Go to Library Reserve Page
     

A new chapter in Maya history: All-out war, shifting alliances, bloody sacrifices -- Anonymous. National Geographic. Washington: Oct 2002. Vol.202, Iss. 4;  pg. A16

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Blood in the jungle ; A newly discovered Maya text chronicles the ebb and flow of an ancient superpower conflict -- Betsy Carpenter. U.S. News & World Report. Washington: Sep 30, 2002. Vol. 133, Iss. 12; p. 80  

 Go to Library Reserve Page
      Maya Hieroglyphs Recount "Giant War" -- D.L. Parsell for National Geographic News, September 19, 2002

 		 Go to Web Page
     

Was Royal Infighting Behind Maya City's Fall? -- Stefan Lougren, for National Geographic News, Oct 6, 2003

 Go to Web Page
    21 none  
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    28 Additional reading on reserve (Wilson Library and Huxley Map Library)

Webster, David (2002). Chapter 7: Explaining the Collapse. In The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of Maya Collapse. (pp. 217-259). London: Thames and Hudson.
 

 Go to Wilson Library or Huxley Map Library Reserve Desk -- No Electronic copy avaialble
  Nov 2 none quiz  
Basis of Life: Water   4 NEW Extra optional
DUST BOWL Citation: Cunfer, Geoff. "The Dust Bowl". EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. August 19, 2004. URL http://eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=Cunfer.DustBowl		 Go to Web Page
     

Glantz, Michael, ed. (1989). The Ogallala Aquifer Depletion  Forecasting by analogy: societal responses to regional climatic change. Summary Report, Environmental and Societal Impacts Group NCAR, 77

 		 Go to Web Page
     

Red River Authority of Texas, Wichita Falls, Texas. Ogallala Aquifer click on and read the page titled "What is the Ogallala Aquifer"

 

 Go to Web Page
     

 

 Popper, Deborah: Popper, Frank (1987). The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust.  Planning: Dec 1987; 53, 12, pp. 12-18. Go to Library Reserve Page
      Great Plains Restoration Council BUFFALO COMMONS web page Go to Web Page
    9 Knack, Ruth (1990). The Poppers Strike a Nerve. Planning: May 1990; 56, 5; pp. 20-22. Go to Library Reserve Page
      Roebuck, Paul (1993). The Great Plains: From Bust to Bust. Focus: Winter 1993; 43,4, pp.16-18. Go to Library Reserve Page
     

Wallach, Bret (1993).The Evolution of an Idea. Focus: Winter 1993; 43, pp. 17-22.

 

 Go to Web Page
      Durkin, Peter J (1997). The Buffalo: Past, Present and Future. Whispering Wind. Folsum. Aug 31, 1997; 29, 1, pp. 12. Go to Library Reserve Page
    11 holiday  
    16 Williams, Florence (2001). Plains Sense: Frank and Deborah Popper’s ’Buffalo Commons’ is creeping toward reality. High Country News: Jan 15, 2001. Go to Web Page
      Kristof, Nicholas D. (2003). Make Way for Buffalo; [Op-Ed]. New York Times.: Oct 29, 2003, pg. A.25. Go to Library Reserve Page
      Belsie, Laurent (2003). Un-plain ways to reinvent the Plains; In the search for a new vision for vanishing heartland, rural towns consider digital hubs, wind farms, and a 'buffalo commons.' Christian Science Monitor: Feb 14, 2003, pg. 08. Go to Library Reserve Page
     

NEW Extra optional
Wallach, Bret (1991).Chap. 7:  A New Epic: North Dakota’s Little Missouri National Grassland. In: Americans and Conservation: At Odds with Progress, University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1991.

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    18 Popper, Deborah and  Popper, Frank (1999) The Buffalo Commons as Regional Metaphor and Geographic Method. Geographical Review: Oct 1999,  89, 4; pp. 491-511. Go to Web Page
    23 none quiz Go to
    25 holiday Go to
Basis of Life: Energy   30 Under construction Go to
  Dec 2 none Go to
      VIDEOS USED IN CLASS  
      Human geography [videorecording] : people, places and change / a BBC production for the Open University in association with the Annenberg/CPB Project at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. So. Burlington, VT : Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1996. Volume 6. Italy Population.  
     

Maya [videorecording] : the blood of
kings / Time-Life Video and Television presents ; writer and producer, Jason Williams. Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Video and Television, c1995.   Additional Author: Waterston, Sam. Williams, Jason.

  
     

Surviving the Dust Bowll [videorecording] / Steward/Gazit Productions, Inc. ; written and produced by Chana Gazit ; coproduced and edited by David Steward.  Host: David McCullough.  [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, c1998.   

  
      Great Wall across the Yangtze [videorecording] = Yangtze Jiang shang de chang cheng / produced, directed, and photographed by Ellen Perry ; written by Audrey Ronning-Topping ; produced in association with the Independent Television Service ; produced by Stardust Pictures. [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, c2000.  Additional Author: Sheen, Martin. Perry, Ellen.