11.122 - Environment and Society:
Managing the Environmental
and Social Impacts of Industrial
Society
Fall 2002
3-0-9 HASS
web.mit.edu/11.122/www/
Class Sessions: Prof. Dara O'Rourke
Tuesday-Thursday 3:30-5:00 p.m. Room 9-328, dorourke@mit.edu
Room 1-134 Office Hours: Tuesday 5:00-7:00
Schedule of Topics and Readings
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Topic |
Readings |
Assignment |
Environment and Society |
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9/5 |
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Introduction to the Course |
No Readings |
Turn in bio. |
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9/10 |
W W |
State of the Environment |
Brown, Lester, ³The Economy
and the Earth,² Chapter 1 in Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth,
New York: W. W. Norton, pp: 3-26, 2001. Available at: http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Eco_contents.htm Worldwide Fund for Nature, Living
Planet Report 2002, pp:1-20. available
at: http://panda.org/livingplanet/lpr02/downloads.cfm
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9/12 |
B/W W |
Industry and the
Environment |
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins,
and L. Hunter Lovins, ³The Next Industrial Revolution,² and ³Waste Not,² Natural
Capitalism, Boston: Little, Brown
and Company, pp:1-21, pp: 48-61, 1999. Redefining Progress, The
Ecological Footprint, available at: http://www.rprogress.org/progsum/nip/ef/ef_main.html |
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9/17 |
R R |
Technology and Democracy |
Sclove, Richard, Democracy
and Technology, Chapters 1 and 2,
New York: The Guilford Press, pp.: 3-24, 1995. Mander, Jerry,
³Technologies of Globalization,² in Mander and Goldsmith (eds.) The Case
Against the Global Economy, San
Francisco: Sierra Club Books, pp: 344-359, 1996. |
Calculate your Ecological Footprint. |
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9/19 |
R R R |
Globalization |
Stiglitz, Joseph, ³The
Promise of Global Institutions,² in Globalization and Its Discontents, New York: W.W. Norton, pp.: 3-22 2002. French, Hilary, ³Coping
with Ecological Globalization,² Chapter 10 in State of the World 2000, The Worldwatch Institute, New York: W. W. Norton,
pp: 184-202, 2000. Goldsmith, Edward, ³Global
Trade and the Environment,² in Mander and Goldsmith (eds.) The Case
Against the Global Economy, San
Francisco: Sierra Club Books, pp: 78-91, 1996. |
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9/24 |
R R |
Environmental Regulation |
Kraft, Michael E., and
Norman J. Vig, ³Environmental Policy from the 1970s to 2000: An Overview,² in
Vig and Kraft (eds.) Environmental Policy New Directions for the
Twenty-First Century, Washington,
D.C.: CQ Press, pp:1-31, 2000. Mazmanian, Daniel A., and
Michael E. Kraft, ³The Three Epochs of the Environmental Movement,² in
Mazmanian and Kraft (eds.) Toward Sustainable Communities Transition and
Transformations in environmental Policy, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp; 3-41,
1999. |
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9/26 |
R R R |
Pollution Regulation |
Gottlieb, Robert and
Maureen Smith, ³The Pollution Control System: Themes and Frameworks,² Reducing
Toxics, Washington, D.C.: Island
Press, pp:10-24, 1995. Fiorino, Daniel J.,
³Challenges,² Making Environmental Policy, Berkeley: UC Press, pp:1-21, 1995. Hammitt, J.K.,
³Data, Risk and Science, Foundations for Analysis² in M. Chertow and D. Esty
(eds.) Thinking Ecologically, The Next Generation of Environmental Policy, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp.:
150-169, 1997. |
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Case Studies |
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10/1 |
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Better Living Through
Chemistry? |
Thornton, Joe,
³Organochlorines Around the World,² and ³The Damage Done: Health Impacts in
People and Wildlife,² in Pandora¹s Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New
Environmental Strategy, Cambridge:
MIT Press, pp:23-55, 116-154, 2000. |
Regulation Problem Set. |
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10/3 |
R R |
Toxic Ignorance |
Roe, David and William
Pease, ³Toxic Ignorance,² The Environmental Forum, May/June, pp.: 24-35, 1998. Steingraber, Sandra, ³The
Social Production of Cancer: A Walk Upstream,² in Hofricter (ed.) Reclaiming
the Environmental Debate The Politics of Health in a Toxic Culture, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp:19-38, 2000. |
Video: Trade Secrets |
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10/8 |
R W W |
Biotech and Food |
Rifkin, The Biotech
Century Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World, New York: Penguin Putnam, pp: 1-36, 1998. Mann, Charles, ³Biotech
Goes Wild,² Technology Review, July/August, 1999, available at: http://www.techreview.com/articles/july99/mann.htm Friends of the Earth,
³Genetically Modified Food,² policy briefing, http://www.foe.org.uk/campaigns/food_and_biotechnology/gm_food/ |
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10/10 |
W R R |
Biotech and You |
Bereano , Philip, ³Don¹t
Take Liberties With Our Genes,² available at: http://www.gene-watch.org/programs/Taking_Liberties.html Walker, Casey, ³An
Interview with Rich Hayes,² Wild Duck Review, vol. V, no. 2, Summer, pp.: 19-25, 1999. Hayes, Richard, ³The Threat
of the New Human Techno-Eugenics: An Overview,² unpublished manuscript,
August 1999, 14 pages. |
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10/17 |
W W W W |
Computer Production |
Cook, Christopher D., and
A. Clay Thompson, ³Silicon Hell,² The San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 26,
2000, available at: http://www.sfbg.com/News/34/30/siliconhell.html Silicon Valley Toxics
Coalition, ³Right-to-know a littleŠ Exposing double standards in global
high-tech production,² available at http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/2000report.htm,
Dec. 19, 2000. Goldberg, Carey, ³Where Do
Computers Go When They Die?² The New York Times, March 12, 1998, available
at: http://www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/comprec/nytimes98/12die.html Matthews, H. Scott, et.
al., ³Disposition and End-of-Life Options for Personal Computers,² Green
Design Initiative Technical Report #97-10, Carnegie Mellon University, July,
1997, available at: http://www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/comprec/index.html |
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10/22 |
W W W W |
E-Commerce and the Internet |
Hendrickson, Chris, H. Scott
Matthews and Luis Ochoa, ³Environmental Implications of E-Commerce, the
Internet and the New Economy,² available at: http://www.ce.cmu.edu:80/GreenDesign/research.html Davis, Christopher. ³CMU
researchers say e-commerce could be environmentally friendly. Findings
indicate delivery process needs to be tweaked.² Bizjournal.com, Dec. 8, 2000,
available at: http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2000/12/11/focus4.html Leahy, Stephen,
³E-commerce: friend or foe of the environment?² Environmental News Network,
Monday, December 11, 2000, available at : http://www.enn.com/features/2000/12/12112000/ecommerce_40648.asp Levitt, James, ³The
Interconnected Futures of the Internet and Conservation,² White Paper for the
Internet and Conservation Project,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, available at: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/icp/icp_white_paper.htm |
Electronics Problem Set. |
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10/24 |
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You Are What You Eat |
Schlosser, Eric, ³The Most
Dangerous Job,² and ³What¹s In the Meat,² in Fast Food Nation, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. pp.:169-224, 2001. |
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10/29 |
W W |
Equity and Environment |
Motavalli, Jim, ³Toxic
Targets Polluters that Dump on Communities of Color are Finally Being
Brought to Justice,² E The Environmental Magazine, July-August, 12 pages, 1998, available at: www.emagazine.com/july-august_1998/0798feat1.html Faber, Danny, ³Unequal
Exposure to Ecological Hazards Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts,² Report, Northeastern University, January 16th, 2001, pp:
i-viii and 38-41, available at: www.nupr.neu.edu/news/0012/environment.pdf
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Video: |
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10/31 |
W R W |
The Return of Sweatshops |
O¹Rourke, Dara, ³Sweatshops
101,² Dollars and Sense,
September, 2001. Bonacich, Edna, and Richard
Appelbaum, ³The Return of the Sweatshop,² Introduction to Behind The
Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp:1-25,
2000. Maquila Solidarity Network,
³How Our Clothes Are Made,² available at: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/resources/indexlabour-label.htm
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11/5 |
R R W W |
Sweatshops and You |
Bonacich, Edna, and Richard
Appelbaum, ³Workers,² Chapter 6 in Behind The Label: Inequality in the Los
Angeles Apparel Industry, Berkeley: University of California Press,
pp:164-199, 2000. Press, Eyal,
³Sweatshopping,² in Ross (ed.) No Sweat, New York: Verso, pp: 221-226, 1997. Academic Consortium on
International Trade,² Letter to University Presidents,² available at: http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/rsie/acit/Documents/Anti-SweatshopLetterPage.html#documents
Scholars Against Sweatshop
Labor, ³Statement to University Presidents,² available at: www.umass.edu/peri/sasl/statement.PDF
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Sweatshop Survey. |
Responses |
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11/7 |
W W |
Rethinking Regulation |
National Academy of Public
Administration, Environment.gov Transforming Environmental Protection
for the 21st Century,
Washington, DC: NAPA, pp: 17-29, 183-194, November 2000, available at: http://www.napawash.org/napa/environdotgov.pdf
Rondinelli, Dennis,
³Rethinking US Environmental Protection Policy,² Nov. 2000, pp: 5-7, 24-33.
available at: http://endowment.pwcglobal.com/publications_GrantDetails.asp?GID=86
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11/12 |
R R W |
Rethinking Regulation |
Brown, Lester, ³Tools for
Restructuring the Economy,² Chapter 11 in Eco-Economy: Building an Economy
for the Earth, New York: W. W. Norton, pp: 233-251, 2001. Available at:
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Eco_contents.htm
Fung, Archon, and Dara
O¹Rourke, ³Reinventing Environmental Regulation from the Grassroots Up:
Explaining and Expanding the Success of the Toxics Release Inventory,²
Environmental Management, vol. 25, no. 2, pp.:115-127, 2000. Visit www.scorecard.org. |
Evaluate your home zipcode with Scorecard. |
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11/14 |
B |
Corporate Strategies |
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins,
and L. Hunter Lovins, ³Making the World,² ³Tunneling Through the Cost
Barrier,² and ³Muda, Service, and Flow,² Natural Capitalism, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp:62-81 and
111-143, 1999. |
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11/19 |
R R |
Corporate Strategies |
McDonough, William and
Michael Braungart, ³Putting Eco-Effectiveness into Practice,² in Cradle to
Cradle, New York: North Point Press. Pp.: 157-186, 2002. Allenby, Braden R., Industrial
Ecology Policy Framework and Implementation, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall,
pp:40-53, 1999. |
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11/21 |
R R |
Community Strategies |
Darnovsky, Marcy, ³Green
Living in a Toxic World: The Pitfalls and Promises of Everyday
Environmentalism,² in Hofricter (ed.) Reclaiming the Environmental Debate
The Politics of Health in a Toxic Culture, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp:219-237, 2000. Morris, David, ³Communities
Building Authority, Responsibility, and Capacity,² in Mander and Goldsmith
(eds.) The Case Against the Global Economy, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, pp: 434-445,
1996. |
Video: Fenceline |
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11/26 |
R B W |
Community strategies |
O¹Brien, Mary, Making
Better Environmental Decisions An Alternative to Risk Assessment, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp: 3-15, 2000. Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins,
and L. Hunter Lovins, ³Once Upon a Planet,² Natural Capitalism, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp:309-322,
1999. Albert, Michael, ³What Are
We For?² available at: http://www.zmag.org/What%20Do%20We%20Want.htm
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12/3 |
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Class Presentations |
No Reading |
Presentations |
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12/5 |
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Class Presentations |
No Reading |
Presentations |
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12/10 |
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Summary and Conclusions |
No Reading |
Term Projects Due |