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Working Schedule and Topics

Tuesday class meetings generally will be a lecture/discussion. Thursday class meetings generally will be a discussion of the day’s assigned readings and/or another activity.

PLEASE! Keep an eye out for environment-related news items in newspapers, magazines, etc. and bring them to class for discussion.

4/2

Topic: Introduction and Overview - Marsh & Grossa, Chapter 1

4/7-4/9

Topic: Balancing People and the Environment

Tuesday – Marsh & Grossa – Chapter 2

Thursday – Living Planet Report, 2008, all pages – available at: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/publications/ (click on the link for the report)

4/14-4/16

Topic: Energy

Tuesday – NOTE: Class meets from NOON to 1:40 PM in Ursa Major C, BSC to hear a presentation by Paul Roberts on Energy Policy. Be sure to check in with Terry while there.

Thursday – Marsh & Grossa – Chapter 9

4/21-4/23

Topic: Population

Tuesday – Marsh & Grossa – Chapter 7

Thursday – Robert W. Kates. 2000. “Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to Know” Environment 42(3): 10-19 (on AS)

4/28-30

Topic: Water

Tuesday – NOTE: Class meets from NOON to 1:40 PM in Heritage Room, CLA to hear a presentation by Peter Glieck on Water Management. Be sure to check in with Terry while there.

Thursday – Marsh & Grossa – Chapter 12

5/5 - Midterm

5/7

Topic: A landscape of water management

John McPhee, “ Los Angeles Against the Mountains” in The Control of Nature, pp. 183-272

Also, historical approaches and landscape analysis (lecture/discussion)

5/9 (SATURDAY) – Field trip to landscape sites discussed in “Los Angeles Against the Mountains.” Bring notebooks, cameras, water, snack, hat, & comfortable shoes (Time – approximately 9AM to 3PM, but to be confirmed. We will have to carpool.)

5/12-14

Topic: Waste

Tuesday – Marsh & Grossa – Chapter 14

Thursday – J. Matthew Shumway and Richard H. Jackson. 2008. “Place Making, Hazardous Waste, and the Development of Tooele County, Utah” The Geographical Review 98(4): 433-455 (on OFFTM)

5/19-21

Topic: Protected Areas

Tuesday – Marsh & Grossa – Chapter 17

Thursday – David Sauri, Marc Pares, and Elena Domene. 2009. “Changing Conceptions of Sustainability in Barcelona’s Public Parks” The Geographical Review 99(1): 23-36 (on OFFTM)

5/26-28

Topic: Environmental Management

Tuesday – Marsh & Grossa – Chapter 18

Thursday – Klaus J. Meyer-Arendt. 1992. “Historical Coastal Environmental Changes: Human Response to Shoreline Erosion” in The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies, Lary M. Dilsaver and Craig E. Colten, Eds., pp. 217-233

6/2-6/4

Student Presentations & Website CD/DVD Due

6/11– Final Exam

© 2003 by Terence Young
tgyoung@csupomona.edu
These are official class materials of GEO 330 as taught at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, by Terence Young.  They are subject to change without notice to anyone but students currently enrolled in the class.

4/29/09 - Winter 2004