ENVS1160: Environmental Science
Syllabus
Regular classroom: Spring
2007, (this is not the blackboard syllabus)
CALENDAR (14 Week Classes) - subject to
change
TESTS
-
Test 1 2005
2007
-
Test 3 2007
-
Test 4 2008
- Test 5 2007
EXERCISES
- Climate Chaos
- Go Green or Else
- Inconvenient Truth
- PCB's
- Beluga Whales
- Property Rights
MEDIA
DEMOS
- Absorption of IR by CO2:
FLIR Camera
- Degradation of rubber by
ozone
- Temperature Inversion
- Photovoltaic Cell
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
Global Warming
Air Pollution
Risk
Water
Waste
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