Reading List
Readings from Withgott and Brennan, 3rd
edition
These readings listed
are specific pages that should serve as useful accompaniments to the class
lectures/discussions.� They are listed more
or less in the order of topics as planned to be discussed in class. You may use
this link for corresponding page numbers in the
book used in last year�s class (4th edition of Cunningham and Cunningham).
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TOPIC |
Chapter; pages |
Textbook Headings |
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General Background |
Chapters 1 - 4, and 7 Appendix A and 1; 23-24 |
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Introduction |
1; 3 1; 7-10 1; 10-16 3; 58-61 3; 74-77 |
Our Island Earth The Nature of
Environmental Science The Nature of Science Environmental Policy:
An Introduction The Environmental
Policy Process |
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Stratospheric Ozone |
4; 88-93 4; 104-107 17; 474-477 17; 488-489 3; 65-74 17; 489-490 17; 490-491 |
Chemistry in the
Environment The Origin of Life The Atmosphere Synthetic chemicals
deplete � The third wave of �,
etc. The Montreal Protocol
� SBS: Identifying CFCs
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Climate Change/Global Warming |
17; 477-480 18; 504-539 4; 92-93 2; 44-45 |
The atmosphere drives�, etc. Chapter 18, Global Climate Change SBS: How Isotopes Reveal Secrets SBS: Ethics in Economics � |
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- Carbon Cycle |
7; 186-189 7; 175-179 |
Biogeochemical Cycles Earth�s Environmental
Systems |
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- Forests and Land Use |
4; 102-103 7; 181-182 Media Page (12; 332) |
Photosynthesis � Nutrients can limit
productivity Fig. 12.3 |
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Energy |
2; 31-32
Appendix B 1; 3-4 19; 543-547 19; 559-560 1; 18-19 20; 574-575 |
Energy Metric System Natural resources � Sources of Energy Environmental Impacts
� Our energy choices � Alternatives to Fossil
Fuels |
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Electricity |
19; 548-549 20; 580-581 |
SBS: How Electricity Is Generated SBS: Assessing
Emissions from Power Sources |
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�- Coal |
19; 546-549 19;560-561 17; 473-474 |
Coal Coal mining � Central Case: Charging
toward Cleaner Air � |
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- - Acid Rain |
4; 94-95, 96 17; 490-494 17; 494-495 3; 77-83 17; 485, 486 2; 40-43 3; 80-81 |
Hydrogen ions �, Fig
4.6 Acidic deposition �, Acid
deposition � SBS: Acid Rain at
Hubbard Brook � Fig. 17.14, Fig. 17.15 Approaches to
Environmental Policy Cost-benefit analysis
�, Aspects of � SBS: Comparing Costs
and Benefits |
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- - Efficiency and Conservation |
19; 565-568 |
Energy Conservation |
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- - Indoor Pollution |
17; 494-500 |
Indoor Air Pollution |
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Mid-term Exam (around mid March) Date TBA |
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- Natural Gas |
19; 549-551 |
Natural Gas |
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- Nuclear Energy |
20; 575-588 20; 573-574 20; 584-585 |
Nuclear Power Central Case: Sweden�s
Search � SBS: Health Impacts of
Chernobyl |
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- - Risk Assessment |
Media pages (14;
402-404) |
Risk assessment � |
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- Hydropower |
7; 196-198 20; 595-598 Media pages (15;
419-421) |
The hydrological cycle
�, Our impacts � Hydroelectric Power sections on dams |
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- Wind/Geothermal/Ocean |
21; 604-607 21; 612-617 4; 103-104 21; 617-620 21; 620-621 |
�New� Renewable Energy
Sources Wind Energy Geothermal energy � Geothermal Energy Ocean Energy Sources |
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- Waste/Biomass |
22; 632-639 20; 592-593 |
Municapal Solid Waste With biopower � |
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- Solar/Hydrogen |
21; 607-612 21; 621-625 21; 603-604 |
Solar Energy Hydrogen Central Case: Iceland
Moves � |
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Transportation �
- Oil |
19; 551-557 19; 562-564 19; 561-562 19; 541-542 19; 558-559 4; 87-88 Media pages (16;
455-456) 19; 564 |
Oil Political, Social, and
Economic Impacts Oil and gas extraction
�, �ANWR Central Case: Oil or
Wilderness � Other Fossil Fuels Central Case:
Bioremediation � Oil pollution � Fig. 19.19 |
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�- - Smog |
17; 481-485 17; 486-488 |
� types of outdoor air
pollution Burning fossil fuels�,
Photochemical smog� |
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�- - Solutions �- Biofuels |
19; 565-566, 567 7; 181 20; 588-595 |
Energy conservation �,
Fig. 19.22 Energy is converted
into biomass Biomass Energy |
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Sustainability and Waste |
1; 5-6 1; 16-21 22; 631-632 22; 639-646 |
Resource consumption � Sustainability � Approaches to Waste
Management Reducing waste�, etc. |
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Environmental Econ & Politics |
2; 37-52 2; 50-51 Chapter 3 |
Economics: Approaches
� SBS: Calculating the
Economic Value � Environmental Policy |
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Population |
1; 4-5 |
Human population
growth � |