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ENVST 301 Environmental Issues Today

Topic 3: Response to Climate Change
Oct 23 - Nov 15
Oct 23	Hugh Pitcher	Climate Change & Policy Options.
	Assignment:	Luers, A. et al., "How to avoid dengerous climate change: A target for US emission reductions," Union of Concerned Scientists Report (2007). Edmonds, J. et al., "International CO2 Stabilization Scenarios with Less-Than-Perfect “Where” and “When” Flexibility,"(2007).
	Questions:	Assigned Questions.
Oct 25	David Ruzic	Nuclear Energy.
	Assignment:	(1) Greenpeace Article"End the Nuclear Age". (2) Cohen, B.L.,"The Hazards of Nuclear Power".
	Questions:	Assigned Questions.
Oct 30	Ty A. Newell	Solar Thermal and Recycling and Energy Efficiency.
	Assignment:	Lovins, A., et al., "Winning the Oil Endgame". *A Note from Prof. Newell: For the class you have to read Chapter 1. You may find this an interesting book for further reading at a later time. Therefore, I am providing you the whole book.*
	Questions:	Assigned Questions.
Nov 1	Angus Rockett	Alternative Fuels and Energy.
	Assignment:	Potential resources to skim over or read: General: Any or all of the World Energy Outlook 2004 report of the International Energy Agency, available at: http://www.iea.org/textbase/publications/free_new_Desc.asp?PUBS_ID=1266 Articles from the Wikipedia are fairly good if not necessarily unbiased. A variety of locations from www.nrel.gov but realize that national laboratories are not unbiased either. They too have constituencies. More general information may be found at www.doe.gov (same caveat applies). Oil specifically: Scientific American, March 1998 "The End of Cheap Oil" by Collin Campbell and Jean H. Laherre Any or all of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil Anything from: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/index.html
	Questions:	Assigned Questions.
Nov 6	Tristram O. West	Biofuels.
	Assignment:	Perlack et al, "Biomass as feedstock for a bioenergy and bioproducts industry: The technical feasibility of a billion-ton annual supply ", DOE and USADA Report (2005)
	Questions:	Assigned Questions.
Nov 8	David Budescu	Decision Making under Uncertain Climate Change.
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	Questions:	Assigned Questions.
Nov 13	Don Fullerton	Decision Making under Uncertain Climate Change.
	Assignment:	A Framework to Compare Environmental Policies," Southern Economic Journal 68, 224-48 (2001).
	Questions:	Assigned Questions.
Nov 15	Students	Synthesis papers due. Discussion of student synthesis papers for Topic 3.

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Topic 3: Response to Climate Change Oct 23 - Nov 15

Oct 23

Climate Change & Policy Options.

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Oct 25

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Oct 30

Solar Thermal and Recycling and Energy Efficiency.

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Lovins, A., et al., "Winning the Oil Endgame". A Note from Prof. Newell: For the class you have to read Chapter 1. You may find this an interesting book for further reading at a later time. Therefore, I am providing you the whole book.

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Nov 1

Alternative Fuels and Energy.

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Nov 6

Biofuels.

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Nov 8

Decision Making under Uncertain Climate Change.

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Nov 13

Decision Making under Uncertain Climate Change.

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Nov 15

Students

Synthesis papers due. Discussion of student synthesis papers for Topic 3.

Topic 3: Response to Climate Change
Oct 23 - Nov 15

Lovins, A., et al., "Winning the Oil Endgame".
A Note from Prof. Newell: For the class you have to read Chapter 1. You may find this an interesting book for further reading at a later time. Therefore, I am providing you the whole book.