State of the World  Dr. Peter Bowler   pabowler@uci.edu    Program in Global Sustainability
Phytoplankton concentrations from Nimbus-7's Coastal Zone Color Scanner (click for a closer look or a Mollweide projection or browse the whole biosphere, or select a region for a closer look, all courtesy of NASA)	University of California, Irvine

This 4 credit course can be taken on line for University of California credit!  It will be available in the Winter quarter of 1999 and the cost is US$ 425. It is offered through the ACCESS-UCI program.  Find out more about on-line courses in Global Sustainability at UCI, and download a course enrollment form.  Registration is required to obtain UCI Net ID and other passwords. pabowler@uci.edu if you are interested.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE WAS CONSTRUCTED FOR THE 1998 COURSE OFFERING.  IT REMAINS HERE FOR YOUR INFORMATION BUT THERE MAY BE CHANGES FOR 1999!

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Course assignments

Required text ALL STUDENT S ARE REQUIRED TO PURCHASE THE CLASS TEXTBOOK FROM WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE OR UCI BOOKSTORE

1. Project Assignments and Report = 50%.

See Important Information on Class Projects, the Formation and Operations of  BESTs {Bioregional Environmental Sustainability Teams}
See Important Information on My Policy on Turning In Assignments.

2. On time submission of four (4) written assignments (see below in syllabus) x  5% each = 20%

3. Final Exam = 30% Important Information on the Final Exam

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CLASS DISCUSSION PAGE

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Final Winter Quarter 1998 Reports
of the Bioregional Environmental Sustainability Teams

THREE GORGES, CHINA

Tommy Hsu. Another Dammed River: The Three Gorges Project.
Kris Min. Three Gorges, Infinite Reasons.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA

Keith Cobb. The Destruction of the Globally Important Indonesian Archipelago.
Jessica Herzog. Pollution in Paradise; Indonesia’s Struggle for Sustainability.
Paul, Po Chun Tu. A Sustainable Jakarta.
 

SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA

Patrick Leclair. Can There be a Sustainable Salton Sea?
Natalie Meyerhoff. The Salton Sea.

Class Period	Lecture Dates	BESTs Meeting Dates	Topic	Information Resources
PART I: THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY Weeks 1 & 2	DONE!	Submit #1   Write a Smashing Abstract!	Global Sustainability Concepts: Capital & Subsidies. UNCED and Rio.	Chapters 1 & 8 in State Goodland and Daly (1996) Pimental et al. (1997) Web Chapter 1
Week 3	DONE!		Global Climate Systems: Ocean/Atmospheric Coupling; Climate Change and El Nino. Montreal and Kyoto.	Chapters 5 & 9 in State Vitousek et al.(1997) Web Chapter 2
Week 4	DONE!	Submit #2	Ecosystems; Ecosystem Services; Systems Ecology.	Chapter 6 in State Costanza et al. (1997) Dobson et al. (1997) Web Chapter 3
Week 5	DONE!	Submit #3	Can Technology Save the Planet? The Limits of Science & of Ecology.	Chapters 4 & 7 in State Ausubel (1996) Edlin (1990) Ray (1996) Web Chapter 4
PART II: THE TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY Week 6	DONE!		Water	Pimental et al. (1997) Postel et al. (1996; Abstract Only)   Web Chapter 5
Weeks 7-8	DONE!		Food: Terrestrial and Aquatic	Chapters 2 & 3 in State Safina (1995) Gabriel (1995) Matson et al. (1997) Botsford et al. (1997) Baker (1995) Web Chapter 6
Week 9	DONE!	Submit #4	Energy. Urban and Industrial Ecology	Duncan (1997) Flavin and Lenssen (1994) Romm and Curtis (1996) Web Chapter 7
Week 10	COURSE DONE- THANKS FOR THE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES!		Environmental Education & Waste Management	Lyle (1994, p. 226-260) Video: McGill (1997) Web Chapter 8

PART I: THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY

Week 1

Chapters 1 & 8 in State
Goodland, R. and H. Daly. 1996. Environmental sustainability: universal and non-negotiable. Ecological Applications 6: 1002-1017.
Pimental et al. (1997)

Weeks 2-3

Chapters 5 & 9 in State
Vitousek et al. 1997. Human domination of earth’s ecosystems. Science 277: 494-504.

Week 4

Chapter 6 in State
Costanza et al. 1997. The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387: 253-260.
Dobson et al. (1997)

Week 5

Chapters 4 & 7 in State
Edlin, G. 1990. Reducing racial and ethnic prejudice by presenting a few facts of genetics. American Biology Teacher 52: 504-506.
Ray, P. 1996. The rise of integral culture. Noetic Sciences Review, Spring 1996 Issue, 4-15.

PART II: THE TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Week 6

Pimentel, D. et al. 1997. Water resources: agriculture, the environment, and society. BioScience 47: 97-106.
Postel et al. 1996. (Abstract Only) Human appropriation of renewable fresh water. Science 271: 785-788.

Weeks 7-8

Chapters 2 & 3 in State
Baker (1995)
Botsford et al. 1997. The management of fisheries and marine ecosystems. Science 277: 509-515.
Gabriel (1995)
Matson et al. (1997)
Safina, C. 1995. The world’s imperiled fish. Scientific American 273: 46-53.

Week 9

Duncan (1997). The World Petroleum Life-Cycle: Encircling the Production Peak
Flavin, C. and N. Lenssen. 1994. Powering the future: Blueprint for a sustainable electricity industry. Worldwatch Paper 119. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC.
Romm, J. and C. Curtis. 1996. Mideast oil forever? Atlantic Monthly April 1996: 57-74.

Week 10

Lyle, J. 1994. Regenerative design for sustainable development. Wiley and Sons, NY., p. 225-260.

Animal Behavior Society
American Fisheries Society Employment Resources
BIRDNET: presented by the Ornithological Council
ESA, The Ecological Society of America Homepage
BRD Contacts
Limnology and Oceanography Job/Position Announcements
Web Directory: Tropical Conservation and Development Program
The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)
Biological Resources Division - USGS
Home Page of The Nature Conservancy - Help Protect Endangered Species
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service World Wide Web Site
California Department of Fish and Game
Employment Opportunities in Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences
DOI Automated Vacancy Announcement Distribution System
International Center for Tropical Ecology
Educational Opportunities Page
Forum: habitat in developing countries
PhDs.Org Science Career Links
America's Job Bank
Environmental Careers World
Cyber-Sierra Internet Search Specialist
World Aquaculture Society Jobs 1998