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"'Sustainable growth'
is an oxymoron."
Garrett Hardin




Environmental Policy  UST/PAD/652/752 
Textbook
Additional Readings & Research Resources


Texts TEXTS
For accuracy and changes, always rely on the syllabus distributed in class.

  • Norman Vig & Michael Kraft, eds. Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty First Century (fifth edition, CQ Press, 2003).
  • Eugene Bardach, A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving (second edition, CQ Press 2005).


  • Dietrich Dörner, The Logic of Failure: recognizing and avoiding error in complex situations (Perseus Books, 1996) - optional, highly recommened.




BIB ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • Agarwal, Anil et al (editors). 1999. Green Politics. New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment.
  • Allen, C. R. & C. S. Holling eds. (2008). Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems. Columbia University Press.
  • Allenby, B.R. (1999). Industrial Ecology; Policy Framework and Implementation, Prentice Hall.
  • Allenby, B. and Richards, D. (Eds.) (1994). The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy Press, Washington D.C.
  • Anderson Anthony & Clinton N. Jenkins (2006). Applying Nature's Design: Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation. Columbia University Press.
  • Ariely, Dan (2008). Predictably irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions. Harper Collins.
  • Bazerman, Max & Michael Watkins (2004). Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them. Harvard Business School Press.
  • Bird, Richard J. (2003). Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought. Columbia University Press.
  • Breyer, Stephen (1993). Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Brunner, Ronald D. et al. (2005). Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making. Columbia University Press.
  • Bullard, Robert D. (1994). Unequal protection : environmental justice and communities of color, San Francisco : Sierra Club Books.
  • Cahn, Matthew (forthcoming). Linking Science to Decision Making in Environmental Policy: Bridging the Disciplinary Gap. The MIT Press.
  • Cahn, Matthew (1996). Thinking About the Environment: Readings on Politics, Property, and the Physical World edited with Rory O'Brien; NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
  • Cahn, Matthew (1995). Environmental Deceptions: The Tension between Liberalism and Environmental Policymaking in the United States Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Carlson, Allen (2008). Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics. Columbia University Press.
  • Carpenter, S.L. and W.J.D. Kennedy, (1988). Managing Public Disputes Jossey-Bass.
  • Chertow, Marian and Daniel Esty, eds. (1997). Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Chichilnisky Graciela & Geoffrey Heal (2000). Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency. Columbia University Press.
  • Chiras, Reganold & Owen (2002). Natural Resource Conservation Management (8th edition) Prentice Hall.
  • Cohen, Steve (2007). Understanding Environmental Policy. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Conca, Ken and Geoffrey Dabelko (1998) (2nd Edition). Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Kyoto. Boulder: Westview Press.
  • Costanza, Robert (1991). Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability. Columbia University Press.
  • Crosby, Alfred W. (1986). Ecological imperialism : the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Dale, Virginia and Mary English, eds. Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making, (New York: Springer, 1999).
  • Daly, Herman E. (1996). Beyond growth : the economics of sustainable development, Boston : Beacon Press.
  • Daly, Herman E.; Cobb, John B.; Cobb, Clifford W. (1994). For the common good : redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future, Boston : Beacon Press.
  • Devuyst, Dimitri, Luc Hens and Walter De Lannoy eds. (2008). How Green Is the City?: Sustainability Assessment and the Management of Urban Environments. Columbia University Press.
  • Diamond, Jared. Collapse.
  • Dodds, Walter K. (2008). Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment. Columbia University Press.
  • Garcia Mira, R., J. Sabucedo Cameselle, & J. Romay Martinez (eds.) (2003). Culture, Environmental Action and Sustainability. Hogrefe & Huber.
  • Garrett, Laurie (1994) The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Gray, George M. and David Ropeik. Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You.
  • Gunderson, Lance H. , C. S. Holling, & Stephen S. Light (1995). Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Regional Ecosystems. Columbia University Press.
  • Harrington, Winston , Richard Morgenstern, and Thomas Sterner, Eds. Choosing Environmental Policy Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe. RFF
  • Henning, D. & W. Mangun (1989). Managing the Environmental Crisis. Duke University Press.
  • Kabat, Geoffrey C. (2008). Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology. Columbia University Press.
  • Layzer, Judith (2002). The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy. CQ Press.
  • Makower, J. (1994). The E-Factor; The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business. Plume Press.
  • Mathez, E. A.& J. D. Webster (2004). The Earth Machine The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet. Columbia University Press.
  • May, Peter H. & Ronaldo Serôa da Motta (2000). Pricing the Planet: Economic Analysis for Sustainable Development. Columbia University Press.
  • McMichael, Anthony J. (1993). Planetary overload and human health : global environmental change and the health and survival of the human species, Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press.
  • Merchant, Carolyn (2007). American Environmental History: An Introduction. Columbia University Press.
  • Mitroff, Ian (1998). Smart Thinking for Cray Times: The Art of Solving the Right Problems Berrett-Koehler, 1998.
  • Morgenstern Richard and William Pizer, (2007). Reality Check: The Nature and Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future.
  • Nadeau, Robert L. (2003). The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment. Columbia University Press.
  • Norberg, Jon and Graeme Cumming eds. (2008). Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future. Columbia University Press.
  • Oates, Wallace E. , editor. The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Policy, 2nd Edition. RFF.
  • Odum Howard T. (2007). Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century: The Hierarchy of Energy. Columbia University Press.
  • Orr, David W. (1993). Planetary overload and human health : global environmental change and the health and survival of the human species, Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press.
  • Pilkey , Orrin H. & Linda Pilkey-Jarvis (2007). Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future. Columbia University Press.
  • Portney, Paul ed. (1992). Public Policies for Environmental Protection. RFF.
  • Rasmussen, Larry L. (1996). Earth community earth ethics, Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books.
  • Rosenbaum , Walter. Environmental Politics and Policy. CQ Press.
  • Russell, Clifford S. (2001). Applying Economics to the Environment, Oxford University Press.
  • Susskind L. and J. Cruikshank (19), Breaking the Impasse: Consensual Approaches to Resolving Public Disputes. Basic Books.
  • Raiffa, H. (1982). The Art and Science of negotiation: How to Resolve Conflict and Get the Best Out of Bargaining. Harvard University Press.
  • Portney, Paul R. and Robert N. Stavins, eds. (2000). Public Policies for Environmental Protection, 2nd ed., Washington: Resources for the Future.
  • Revesz, Richard L. (1997). Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy, New York: Foundation Press.
  • Rosenbaum, W. A. (2002). Environmental politics and policy. (5th edition). CQ Press.
  • Sexton, Ken, Alfred Marcus, William Easter and Timothy Burkhardt, eds. (1999.) Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Business, and Communities. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
  • Simmons, I.G. (1997). Humanity and environment: A cultural ecology. Addison Wesley Longman.
  • Stavins, Robert N. ed. (2000), Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, 4th edition, New York: W. W. Norton.
  • Sunstein, Cass (2002). Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment, Cambridge University Press.
  • Sunstein, Cass (2007). Worst-case scenarios. Harvard University Press.
  • Waltner-Toews, David, James J. Kay, & Nina-Marie E. Lister (2008). The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability. Columbia University Press.
  • Weiskel, Timothy C.; Gray, Richard A. (1992). Environmental decline and public policy : pattern, trend and prospect, Ann Arbor : Pierian Press.
  • Zerner Charles ed. (2000). People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation. Columbia University Press.

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