Syllabus

Spring 2007

CALENDAR - subject to change

Week	Slides	Course Work	Unit Title	Exercises
Intro			Introduction
1-2			1-Environmental Problems
3-4			2-Global Warming
5-6			3-Air Pollution
7-8			4-Toxins
9-10			5-Water
11-12			6-Waste
13-14			7-Energy

TESTS

• Test 1 2005.pdf
• Test 3 2007.pdf
• Test 4 2008.pdf
• Test 5 2007.pdf

MEDIA

• Movies

DEMOS

• Absorption of IR by CO2: FLIR Camera
• Degradation of rubber by ozone
• Temperature Inversion

REFERENCES

Unit 1

• Deevey, E.S. Jr. (1960) The human population. Scientific American, Vol. 203, pp. 195-204.
• Hardin, G. (1968) The tragedy of the commons. Science, Vol. 162, pp. 1243-1248.
• Schulze, P. and Mealy, J. (2001) Population growth, technology and tricky graphs. American Scientist, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 209.
• Wackernagel, M. and Rees, W. (1996) Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. New Society Publishers, Canada.

GH Effect

• Dunnivant, 2000

Air Pollution

• Ackerman, J. (2001) Neville reborn as island of serenity. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 19.
• Godlee, F. (1989) Air pollution II: road traffic and modern industry. The British medical Journal, Vol. 303, pp. 1539-1542.
• h Magazine Fall 2007
• Likens, G.E. and Bormann, F.H. (1974) Acid Rain: A Serious Regional Environmental Problem. Science, Vol. 184, No. 4142, pp. 1176-1179.
• Parsons, J. (2007) - http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/team4/15187012/detail.html
• Pearce, F. (1992) Back to the days of deadly smogs. New Scientist, Issue 1850, Dec. 5th, pp. 25-28.
• Schwartz, J., Laden, F., and Zanobetti, A. (2002) The Concentration-Response Relation between PM2.5 and Daily Deaths. Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 110, No. 10, pp. 1025-1029.
• Snyder, L.P. (1997) "The Death-Dealing Smog Over Donora, Pennsylvania": Industrial Air Pollution, Public Health Policy, and the Politics of Expertise, 1948-1949. Environmental History Review, Spring, pp. 117-139.
• Spice, B. (2000) Study ties particulate air pollution to increased death risk. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dec. 14th.
• Unleaded Petrol Debate, 1990

Toxins

• Ames, B.N. and Gold, L.S. (1990) Misconceptions On Pollution and the Causes of Cancer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, pp. 1197-1208.
• Carlson, E. et al (1992)
• Daly, G. (2006)
• Gold, L.S. (2002)
• Halford, B. (2008) Side Effects. Chemical and Engineering News, Vol. 86, No. 8, pp. 13-17.
• Harrison, R.M. and Laxen, D.P.H. (1981) Human Exposure to Lead. In Harrison, R.M. and Laxen, D.P.H., Lead Pollution: Causes and Control. Chapman and Hall, pp. 132-158.
• Independent 100293
• Kirby, A. (2000) Pollution Damages Intelligence. BBC News, 22nd April.
• Sharpe, R.M. (1992)
• Sharpe, R.M. and Skakkebaek, N.E. (1993)
• Times 100293

Water

• Smith et al, 2002

Waste

• Betts, 2001
• Hocking, 1991
• News Week 1991
• Rathje and Murphy, 1992

Energy

• Ball, 1979
• Chandler, 2001
• Europe's Environment
• Homewood, 1993

Unit 1 LINKS

• Earthday Network - Ecological Footprint quiz - http://www.earthday.net/footprint/info.asp
• Earthday Network - Ecological Footprint quiz - http://www.myfootprint.org/
• A different way of looking at the EFP - http://pthbb.org/natural/footprint/
• European perspective - http://weizsaecker.bawue.spd.de/index.html?loc=/main.php?docid=0004000201&id=57

Global Warming

• Carbon Footprint - http://www.carbonfootprint.com
• Your CO2 Footprint (UK) - http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk
• Carbon Solutions Group - http://www.carbonsolutionsgroup.com/carbonfootprintcalc.html
• Atmospheric carbon dioxide curve - http://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Elinah/carbon.html

Air Pollution

• Donora
• Pittsburgh No.1 Polluted City
• CHEC Environmental Monitoringin Pittsburgh - http://www.chec.pitt.edu/stateofinfo/envmon.htm
• Clean Air Reports - http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/reports/clean-air
• National Atmospheric Deposition Program - http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/

Risk

• Bruce Ames Videos - http://www.bruceames.org/bnalect.cancer1.html
• NYT -12995

Water

• CA Water Project
• A World Without Water - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3930199780455728313

Waste

• EPA -http://www.epa.gov/msw/facts.htm