Full
Lecture - Week 12 Assigned Reading
Class Research Resources and Assignments
Week 12
Principles
of Ecosystem Management and Global Sustainability
Full
Lecture - Week 12
Assigned
Reading
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Look forward to the 25th Anniversary discussion of:
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Numerous international efforts have been launched to articulate and codify ethical principles of sustainability. These include principles adopted at the first global environmental summit known as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janiero in 1992. In addition, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) has drawn up a list of ten principles, and the international Earth Charter movement has developed others that it will seek to place before the United Nations in 2002.
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Supplemental Bibliography:
Timothy
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| 1992 | Chapter V - Time's Arrow and the Human Prospect, in Environmental Decline and Public Policy: Pattern, Trend and Prospect, with Richard Grey, (Ann Arbor, MI, Pierian Press, 1992). |
| 1997 | "Selling Pigeons in the Temple: The Danger of Market Metaphors in an Ecosystem" (1997). |
| 1997 | "Some Notes from Belshaz'zar's Feast," in The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life Edited by John E. Carroll, Paul Brockelman and Mary Westfall (Hanover, London, University Press of New England, 1997), pp. 11-29. or http://ecoethics.net/papers/Belshazar-front.htm |
| 1998 | "Bad Samaritans on a Small Planet: Rethinking 'Neighbor' in an Ecosystem." (1998) |
| 2000 | "Denying the Evidence: Science and the Human Prospect," in Earth at Risk: An Environmental Dialogue between Religion and Science, Donald B. Conroy and Rodney L. Petersen, (eds.), (Amherst, New York, Humanity Books, 2000), pp. 107-130. |
| 2005 | "Sowing and Reaping: Weather, Climate and the Challenge to the American People or What’s Happening? Who Says So? What Can We Do About it?" That's Another Fine Mess, (28 September 2005). |
| 2005 | “From Sidekick to Sideshow—Celebrity, Entertainment, and the Politics of Distraction Why Americans Are ‘Sleepwalking Toward the End of the Earth,’” American Behavioral Scientist, 49, 3, (November 2005), pp. 393-409. |
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The "Newspeak" of "Sustainable Development" UNCED - RIO DECLARATION
ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT |
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| The Promise of Food Production Technology and Biotechnology
 HRH Prince Charles -
Prince of Wales on Biotechnology.
Text of Price Charles Reith Lecture).What are the moral theories imbedded in each of the perspectives in this global debate? What are the operative theories of community, system, authority, change, agency, and time in each party's perspective?)
"Elimination of Global Hunger"USDA Millennium Lecture, Dr. Gordon Conway, Rockefeller Foundation President (intro by Dan Glickman)-RealAudio only 25 Sep 2000. |
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| Third
World Protests against the Non-Progress and Doublespeak of the International
Community Examine particularly the resources available through the:
Vandana Shiva is a physicist and philosopher of science. She is also an indefatigable activist, having played a key role in the famous Chipko movement in the Himalayas. Prior to 1982 she was scientific researcher at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.  She left the Institute
to set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural
Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, where she is Director. She is also
the Science and Environment Adviser of the Third World Network and the
Asia Pacific People's Network (APPEN), Associate Editor of The Ecologist,
and a Board Member of a number of other national and international bodies.
Her books include Monoculture of the Mind, Biotechnology and the Environment,
and Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. In 1993, she was awarded
the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize.
(View the entire Year 2000 Reith Lecture Series - "Respect for the Earth" including: |
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| Emerging Voices of North-South Solidarity on Biotechnology, Globalization and Environment: BBC - 3 Part Report
in the "Global Business" Series A
statement by Jose Bove, French farmer and unionist, to a French court
during a trial on charges of destroying genetically modified maize. Bove
is best known for actions against the McDonaldization of food. Agreement reached on protecting
plant genetic resources
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Discussion of Biotechnology
Issues on "Uncommon Knowledge."
Part I 