Readings (Draft will be altered based on pace of our discussions)

 

Date

Class

 

 

Introduction

 

 

 

September
26

1

First Class -- "Yellow Earth" video

 

 

 

 

 

Past and Present Environmental Approaches

 

 

 

28

2

 Erlich, L.C. and Dresser, D. 1994.  Cinematic Landscapes . "Post-Socialist Strategies" An Analysis of Yellow Earth pp. 81-110

Or one of the other books provided in class

 

October
1

3

Mao's War … Introduction p. 1-19 &
Hobbs, Joseph and Salter, Christopher. 2007....Chapter 13: China the Giant

Shapiro, Judith. 2001. Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China. London: Cambridge University Press.

 

3

4

Mao's War … Chap 1: Pop, Dams & Political Repression  p. 21-66

 

8

5

The Fading of Chinese Environmental Secrecy: A report from U.S. Embassy Beijing March 1998 http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/chplca.htm    (Note this available online at this url) J:\saldata\Egeo312\Egeo423\Fading Secrecy.doc

 

On Line Click

 10

 

Ma, Xioaying & Ortolano, Leonard. 2000. Chap 1: Enviromental Costs of China's Economic Growth pp. 1-12

Ma, Xioaying & Ortolano, Leonard. 2000. Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

 

15

6

Tsuru, Shigeto. 1999. The Concept of Kogai Defined pp. 24-26 &
Hobbs, Joseph and Salter, Christopher. 2007. Chapter 14: Japan...

Tsuru, Shigeto. 1999.The Political Economy of the Enviroment: The Case of Japan. Vancouver: UBC Press.

 

 

 

Tsuru, Shigeto. 1999... Chap 2 Historical Analysis -- Prewar Period pp. 27-47

 

  17

 7

Suzuki, David & Oiwa, Keibo. 1999... Chap 9: Poisoned Waters pp. 211-220 (Shozo Tanaka)

Suzuki, David & Oiwa, Keibo. 1999. The Other Japan: Voices Beyond the Mainstream. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing.

 

 

 

Tsuru, Shigeto. 1999... Chap 3 Historical Analysis -- Postwar Period 1 pp. 48-69

 

Threatened Water Resources

 

 

 

22

8

Ma, Jun. 2004. Chap 1 The Yellow River pp. 3-44

Ma, Jun. 2004. China's Water Crisis: Zhongguo shui wieji. Norwalk: An International Rivers Network Book, East Bridge.

 

24

9

Video Himasturi

 

29

10

Ma Jun. 2004. Chap 5 Northern China pp.129-158

 

   

Zhu, Ruixiang (undated). “China’s South-North Water Transfer Project and Its Impacts on Economic and Social Development”  Management Bureau for South-North Water Transfer Planning and Design, Ministry of Water Resources URL: http://www.mwr.gov.cn/english1/20060110/20060110104100XDENTE.pdf   last accessed Oct. 23, 2008. The official government story.

 

 

 31

 

Jeremy Berkoff, Jeremy (2003).  “China: The South–North Water Transfer Project—is it justified?”. Water Policy 5 (2003) 1–28  (click here on campus for a copy)

On Line Click

5

  MIDTERM  

7

11

Tsuru, Shigeto. 1999. Chap 4 Historical Analysis -- Postwar Period 2 pp. 70-115

 

 

 

Suzuki, David & Oiwa, Keibo. 1999. Chap 9: Poisoned Waters pp. 220-237 (Minamata)

 

    Video: Surviving the Dust Bowl

 

12

13

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

On Line Click

12

 

 

Guru, M. and Horne, J. (2000). “The Ogallala Aquifer” 2000 by The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Inc.  First publication: July 2000. URL:  http://www.kerrcenter.com/publications/ogallala_aquifer.pdf  last accessed Oct. 22, 2008.

 

12

 

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

http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/gccourse/issues/society/ogallala/ogallala.html last accessed Oct. 22, 2009

 

 

On Line Click

12

14

Popper, Deborah: Popper, Frank (1987). The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust.  Planning: Dec 1987; 53, 12, pp. 12-18.  http://www.lacusveris.com/The%20Hi-Line%20and%20the%20Yellowstone%20Trail/The%20Buffalo%20Commons/From%20Dust%20to%20Dust.shtml last accessed Oct. 22, 2008.

Available only on Campus Click Here

   14

 

  Broadbent, J. 2005. "Japan: A Forward"  pp. 103-107

Bauer, Joanne, editor. 2005. Forging Environmentalism. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe: An East Gate Book.

 

14

  Kada, Yukiko et. al. 2005. "From Kogai to Kankyo Mondai: Nature Development, and Social Conflict in Japan"  introductory section pp. 109- top of 112, Nagara River case study pp. 159-182.

Bauer, Joanne, editor. 2005. Forging Environmentalism. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe: An East Gate Book.

 

 19

 

Chap 1 Growth versus the environment in Japan

Broadbent, Jeffery. 1998. Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest. New York: Cambridge Press.

 

19

16

Broadbent, Jeffery. 1998...Chap 4 Movement startups and Chap 5 Protest against landfill No. 8 

 

21

 

Broadbent, Jeffery. 1998... Chap 9 Pyrrhic Victories

 

24th(for 26th)

17

Economy, Elizabeth. 2004...  Chap 5 The New Politics of the Environment

Economy, Elizabeth. 2004. The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

 

December 3

18

Economy, Elizabeth. 2007. The Great Leap Backward. Foreign Affairs Sept/Oct 2007  get from Wilson Library electronically

 

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