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Schedule

WEEK OF:

CHAPTERS:

TOPIC:
Aug 23-27 Chapter 1

 Visions of Future
UNEP;  Moore, Regis, and Simon on Simon; Perry, Finkel
Aug 30-Sep 3 Chapter 2

                                  Labor Day Holiday Sep. 1
 Valuing Environment: Concepts
Barcott
Sep 6-10 Chapter 3

Valuing Environment: Methods
Rolston: Valuing the Environment

Sep 13-17 Chapter 4

Property Rights and Externalities
Higgs (Two articles): Fear, Emergencies & Big Government
Sep 20-24 Chapter 5

 Dynamic Efficiency
Schumacher: Buddhist Economics

Sep 27-Oct 1  

                     Test: Friday Oct. 1
Oct 4-8 Chapter 7

Allocating Depletable and Renewable Resources: an Overview
Alanzo Smith: Purpose of Wealth, Hardin
Oct 11-15 Chapter 8

Energy
 TBA: Green Pork; Georgescu-Roegen: Entropy
                          Fall Break Nov. Oct. 16-17
Oct 18-22 Chapter 10

Water
Heilbroner Book Report Due Monday, Oct 15
Oct 25-29 Chapter 13

Forests
 
Nov 1-5 Chapter 14

Fisheries
Walker: Killer Abs
Nov 8-12  

                      Test: Wednesday Nov. 10
Nov 15-19 Chapter  15

Pollution control
Abbey Book Report Due Friday, Nov 19
Nov 22-26 Chapter  16

Local Air Pollution
Daly: Steady State
                         Thanksgiving Break Nov. 25-26
Nov 29-Dec 3 Chapter 17, 18 (parts)

Global Pollutants; Mobile air pollution (438-42, 454-59)
Boulding: Spaceship Earth
Dec 6-10 Chapter 24

The Future  Revisited
Keynes: Grandchildren     
                           No Class Friday
Dec 13-17