Geography 339 Environmental Conservation
Semester: Spring 2006
Instructor: Dawn Biehler email
Office Hours: on syllabus
Syllabus: Spring 2006 syllabus (.pdf)
Online Material:
Worster, D. 1993. The nature we have lost. pgs 3-15 In The Wealth of Nature. New York: Oxford University Press.
Denevan, W. M. 1992. The pristine myth: The landscape of the Americas in 1492. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82: 369-385.
Vale, T. R. (1998). The myth of the humanized landscape: An example from Yosemite National Park. Natural Areas Journal 18: 231-236.
Cronon, W. 1983. That wilderness should turn a mart. pgs 159-170 In Changes in the Land. New York: Hill and Wang.
Gottlieb, R. 1993. Reconstructing environmentalism: Complex movements, diverse roots. Environmental History Review 17 (4):1-19.
Susan Strasser, "The stewardship of objects," in Waste and Want (New York: Holt, 1999): 21-28.
Robert Gottlieb, "Reconstructing environmentalism," Environmental History Review 17 (1993): 1-19.
Charles F. Wilkinson, "Forests for the home-builder first of all," in Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1992): 114-135. Part 1.
Charles F. Wilkinson, "Forests for the home-builder first of all," in Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1992): 135-153. Part 2.
Elizabeth Losos et al, "Taxpayer-subsidized resource extraction harms species," Bioscience 45 (1995): 446-455.
Karl Jacoby, "Nature and nation," in Crimes Against Nature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 81-98.
Donald Ludwig, Ray Hilborn, and Carl Waters, "Uncertainty, resource exploitation, and conservation: Lessons from history," Science 260 (1993): 547-549.
Margeurite Holloway, "Uncontrolled burn," Scientific American 282.8 (2000): 16, 18.
Nancy Langston, "When sound science is not enough," Journal of Forestry 98 (2000): 31-35.
L. David Mech, "The challenge and opportunity of recovering wolf populations," Conservation Biology 9: 269-277.
Gordon Haber, "Biological, conservation, and ethical implications of exploiting and controlling wolves," Conservation Biology 10 (1996): 1068-1081.
Richard N. L. Andrews, "Nationalizing Pollution Control," in Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999): 227-254.
Samuel Hays, "From conservation to environmentalism," in American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History, ed. Roderick Nash (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990): 144-152.
David Harvey, "Part II Prologue," Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference, (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1996), 117-119.
Vernice Miller, Moya Hallstein, and Susan Quass, "Feminist politics and environmental justice: Women's community activism in West Harlem, New York," in Feminist Political Ecology, eds. Diane Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, and Esther Wangari (London: Routledge, 1996), 62-85.
Dave Cieslewicz, "Love nature, love your city," Isthmus 25-31 August 2000, p. 9-11.
Katherine Ellison and Gretchen Daily, "Making conservation profitable," Conservation in Practice 4.2 (2003): 13-19.
Forrest Laws, "'Time to do better'? Pombo introduces revised Endangered Species Act," Southwest Farm Press. 20 October 2005.
Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca, Confronting Consumption (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), 1-20.
Mary L. Barker and Dietrich Soyez, "Think locally, act globally? The transnationalization of Canadian resource-use conflicts," Environment 36 (1994): 12-20; 32-36.