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Fall 2001
L. Phoenix and R. Stieglitz
Laurel's office: MAC A324
Office Hours: MWF 11:00-12:00
TR 11:00 - 12:00
E-mail: phoenixl@uwgb.edu
stieglir@uwgb.edu
Course Description:
This seminar is the capstone course in the graduate program in Environmental Science and Policy. Its purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to study selected environmental problems in an interdisciplinary manner. In particular, perspectives from the environmental sciences, public policy studies, political science, economics, and public management will be introduced and used as lenses through which to view and analyze contemporary environmental problems. The problems emphasized will change from year to year to reflect faculty and student interests and special opportunities for field and laboratory research and public policy analysis. A seminar format is used to encourage individual participation and to seek creative solutions to environmental management challenges.
A unique aspect of the course is a team research effort, which culminates with a colloquium and workshop at the end of the semester (see below). The objective of this team research is to bring together people with differing policy and science backgrounds to consider future directions for environmental protection. The course is team led, with one faculty member from the natural sciences and one from the social sciences.
Requirements:
Seminar participants will be evaluated according to their performance in several areas:
1. Seminar participation. Contributions to the seminar are expected each week, and each participant will serve as a discussion leader at least once. Class participation constitutes 20 percent of the grade.
2. Seminar session papers. All participants are required to complete two papers of three to four pages each (typed, double-spaced) that review and assess assigned reading material for two different seminars. The analysis should include the following: a synopsis of the key issues or main points of the reading; the relationship of this reading to issues in environmental science and policy; and an assessment of the contribution the author makes to the reader’s understanding of the topic. This component comprises 30 percent of the grade.
3. Interdisciplinary team research project. The project handout provides a full description. Team projects will be presented at a research colloquium scheduled for late in the semester. This component contributes 50 percent of the course grade.
Texts:
The following texts have been ordered and should be available at the Phoenix Bookstore:
Rogene A. Buchholz, Principles of Environmental Management: The Greening of Business (1998)
Ken Sexton, et al., eds., Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Businesses, and Communities (1999).
Additional Readings will be assigned
Keeping up to date with both scientific and public policy developments
obviously is difficult. We will provide some guidance in the course for
some efficient ways to do so, including an introduction to a variety of indexes
and abstracting services, use of government documents, and various electronic
search devices, including key Internet sites. The list of Web sites appended
below should be helpful in finding pertinent information.
Introduction to Course:
Sept. 4 Introduction, discuss project ideas, identify teams, assign discussion leaders.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Sept. 11 Buchholz, Environmental Management,
Chapters 5 & 6
Sept. 18 Buchholz, Environmental Management, Chapters 7 & 8
Sept. 25 Buchholz, Environmental Management, Chapters 9 & 10
References:
Council on Environmental Quality, Environmental Quality (annual; available on
line).
World Resources Institute, World Resources (biennial, and a treasure of
reliable data on global conditions and trends).
Worldwatch Institute, State of the World (annual volume with variable topics).
Lester Brown, et al. Vital Signs (annual compilation of key environmental
trends).
Two recent encyclopedias offer a diversity of short articles on pertinent
subjects: Robert Paehlke, ed., Conservation and Environmentalism:
An Encyclopedia (1995). David E. Alexander and Rhodes W. Fairbridge, eds.,
Encyclopedia of Environmental Science (1999).
For coverage of politics and public policy, both international and domestic,
see the following:
Lynton Keith Caldwell, International Environmental Policy: Emergence and
Dimensions, 3rd ed. (1996).
Norman J. Vig and Regina S. Axelrod, eds., The Global Environment:
Institutions, Law, and Policy (1999).
Paul R. Portney, ed., Public Policies for Environmental Protection (1990).
Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Environmental Policy: New Direction
for the Twenty-first Century (1999).
Walter A. Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy, 4th ed. (1998 –3rd ed.
on reserve.
Michael E. Kraft, Environmental Policy and Politics (1996).
James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy, 2nd ed.(1995) [more
advanced coverage of research and future directions for political science and
public policy scholarship].
For those needing a fuller or more basic introduction to issues in public
policy and politics, see
Charles O. Jones, An Introduction to the Study of Public Policy (1984),
James E. Anderson, Public Policy Making: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (1997).
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY:
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Oct. 2 Buchholz, Environmental Management, Chapters 11 & 12 Team meetings.
Oct. 9 Buchholz, Environmental Management, Chapters 13 & 14
Oct. 16 Buchholz, Environmental Management, Chapters 3 & 4
Oct. 23 Team meetings and
progress reports
References:
Steven L. Yaffee, et al., Ecosystem Management in the United States: An
Assessment of Current Experience (1996),
Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Toward Sustainable
Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (November
1999).
World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (1987).
William Ophuls (with A. Stephen Boyan, Jr.), Ecology and the Politics of
Scarcity Revisited: The Unraveling of the American Dream (1992).
Sheldon Kamieniecki, George A. Gonzalez, and Robert O. Vos, eds., Flashpoints
in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability
(1997).
National Commission on the Environment, Choosing a Sustainable Future (1993).
President's Council on Sustainable Development, Sustainable America: A New
Consensus (1996).
Lawrence Barnthouse, et al., Sustainable Environmental Management (1998).
Hanna Cortner and Margaret Moote, The Politics of Ecosystem Management (Island
Press 1999).
Steven Yaffee, The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl: Policy Lessons for a New Century
(1994).
INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND DECISION MAKING: GOVERNMENTAL, BUSINESS, AND COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES
Oct. 30 Sexton, et al. Better Environmental Decisions, Foreword, Preface, and Introduction and Chapters 1-5, xi-xviii, 1-110.
Nov. 6 Sexton, et al., Better Environmental Decisions, Chapters 6-10, 113-219.
Nov. 13 Sexton, et al., Better Environmental Decisions, Chapters 11-15, 223-328.
Nov. 20 Sexton, et al., Better Environmental Decisions, Chapters 16-20, 331-450.
References:
Mark R. Powell, Science at the EPA: Information in the Regulatory Process
(1999).
Rosemary O’Leary, Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Paul S. Weiland,
Managing for the Environment: Understanding the Legal, Organizational, and
Policy Challenges (1999).
J. Clarence Davies and Jan Mazurek, Pollution Control in the United States:
Evaluating the System (1998--short version available at rff.org).
Gerrit J. Knaap and T. John Kim, eds., Environmental Program Evaluation: A
Primer (1998).
National Academy of Public Administration, Setting Priorities, Getting Results:
A New Direction for EPA (1995—a 1997 update available at NAPA Web site:
napawash.org).
Paul Portney, ed., Public Policies for Environmental Protection (1990).
Daniel J. Fiorino, Making Environmental Policy (1995).
Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Green Backlash: The History and Politics of
Environmental Opposition in the U.S. (1997).
J. Clarence Davies, ed., Comparing Environmental Risks: Tools for Setting
Government Priorities (1996).National Research Council, Improving Risk
Communication (1989).
Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management,
Risk Assessment and Risk Management in Regulatory Decision-Making (1997) and
Framework for Environmental Health Risk Management.
Michael E. Kraft and Bruce N. Johnson, “Clean Water and the Promise of
Collaborative Decision Making: The Case of the Fox-Wolf River Basin in
Wisconsin,” in Mazmanian and Kraft, eds., Toward Sustainable Communities
(1999), page proofs on reserve.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Reducing Risk: Setting Priorities and
Strategies for Environmental Protection (1990), 1-25.
Nov. 27 Team meetings and Colloquium Practice
Dec. 4 Research Colloquium
Dec. 11 Seminar Evaluation, synthesis and gestalt, celebration
Discussion Leader Responsibilities
Each seminar participant will be assigned the role of discussion leader for the readings on a given date. Discussion leaders are responsible for leading, not dominating, the discussion during the seminar session. The discussion leader facilitates the discussion by presenting key issues, topics, and insights he/she found in the readings, and by illustrating how these readings relate to other work on the same subject.
On the night you are a discussion leader, you should also submit a brief (2-3 page typed) paper that is described in the first part of the syllabus. These short papers are due at the seminar at which the reading is to be discussed.
Note: All seminar participants remain responsible for reading and taking
part in discussion of the assigned material regardless of who is assigned the
task of discussion leader for that session.
2000 Interdisciplinary Team Project Descriptions
We are flexible on the research topics for the interdisciplinary team
projects. Consistent with the focus of seminar readings, topics that seem
to be especially pertinent include the use of new policy tools, esp. for
ecosystem management and sustainable development, such as partnerships between
industry and government, market-based approaches to supplement or replace
regulation, new roles for citizen participation in decisionmaking, and
watershed or integrated approaches to ecosystem preservation or restoration.
Other topics that are closely related to readings and the focus of the seminar
include the DNR reorganization around watersheds, sustainable community
initiatives, land trusts and other land use issues, waterfront development and
urban renewal as part of building sustainable communities, habitat modification
and loss, the role of science and scientists in decisionmaking, the role of the
media in educating the public, the case of the Fox River PCB cleanup,
development in Door County, Wisconsin, local energy use and conservation, water
quality issues in general, and green building design—possibly using the new
UW-Green Bay classroom building.
SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL WEB SITES
Note: If you want to be able to directly access the links below, we can supply you with an electronic file of this document as an e-mail attachment in a Word 97 format.
General Sites on Public Policy or Environment
http://www.policy.com/ (a comprehensive site that provides a list of major policy institutes, advocacy organizations, media organizations, businesses, and government agencies, as well as extensive coverage of policy news, issue briefings, and an issues library organized by subject matter, with a large number of references for environment. Also links to all major organizations working on environmental issues).
http://thomas.loc.gov/ (Library of Congress’s Thomas search engines for locating key congressional documents. It is one of the most comprehensive public site for legislative searches).
http://www.gao.gov/ (U.S. General Accounting Office, a treasure trove of reports on government agencies and programs, esp. evaluation studies).
http://www.uwgb.edu/~furlongs/pubpol.htm (Scott Furlong’s Public Policy home page, with extensive links to policy issues and government agencies, including many dealing with environmental issues).
http://www.uwgb.edu/~furlongs/index.html (American Government Home Page (links to government agencies).
http://www.epa.gov/ (United States Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/rules.html (EPA site for laws, rules, and regulations, including the full text of the dozen key laws administered by the EPA).
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/Programs.html (EPA programs and projects)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq (Council on Environmental Quality).
http://badger.state.wi.us/departments.html(access to State of Wisconsin agencies and policy issues).
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/Environment.html (DNR site for environmental programs)
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/NaturalResources.html (DNR site for natural resources programs)
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/wm/lowerfox/(DNR
site dedicated to Fox River cleanup program.
Environmental Research and Data Collections
http://www.cnie.org/index.html(Committee for the National Institute for the Environment. Useful site with new National Library for the Environment, links to Congressional Research Service studies on environmental issues, and more).
http://www.islandpress.org/ (Eco-Compass--guide to environmental information for ecosystems, community issues, global change, and economics--as well as to Island Press books and links to other sites on these topics).
http://www.rff.org/ (Resources for the Future--economic policy analyses and information).
http://www.worldwatch.org/(Worldwatch Institute site, with list of Worldwatch papers and other publications).
http://www.wri.org/wri/index.html (World Resources Institute site, with useful links to studies and international environmental and governmental organizations).
http://www.scorecard.org/ (Environmental Defense Fund site for extensive environmental data by city—hazardous air emissions, chemical releases from manufacturing, hazardous waste, drinking water, etc.).
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/Data.html (EPA databases and software—good entry point to locating environmental information).
http://www.epa.gov/ceisweb1/ceishome/ (Center for Environmental Information and Statistics at EPA).
http://tree2.epa.gov/CEIS/CEIS.NSF/ (Environmental data profiles for counties nationwide. Type in a zip code and get the information for that area).
http://www.undp.org/popin/popin.htm (United Nations population information; latest projections, studies, official statements, country profiles)
Environmental Organizations and Advocacy Groups
http://gwis.circ.gwu.edu/~greenu/org.html (Environmental Organization Internet Sites--extensive, with alphabetical search).
http://www.sierraclub.org/ (Sierra Club).
http://www.zpg.org/ (Zero Population Growth—extensive information on population growth in the U.S. and worldwide, updates on population related news and legislation).
http://www.lcv.org/ (League of Conservation Voters--environmental voting records and information on congressional actions).
http://www.nrdc.org/nrdc (Natural Resources Defense Council--news and information on public policy issues).
http://lakemichigan.org/ (Lake Michigan Federation home page covering water quality, toxic releases, land use, and related issues that affect Lake Michigan Basin).
http://www.nwf.org/ (National Wildlife Federation).
http://www.gn.apc.org/ (GreenNet, computer network for environment, peace, human rights).
http://www.geonetwork.org/ (Global Environmental Options--multiple site links).
Environmental News Sites
http://www.envirolink.org/ (Environmental Library Search).
http://www.enn.com/ (Environmental News Network --current news and links).
http://www.igc.org/igc/econet (Econet--diversified news and environmental links).
http://cnn.com/NATURE/ (CNN environmental news site).
Environmental Education and Careers
http://conbio.rice.edu/cnie/dep/ (directory of over 200 environmental programs in higher education).
http://www.starfish.org/ (sustainability and environmental education--resources, bibliographies, courses).
http://www.2nature.org/(Second Nature site, devoted to education for sustainability, with good links to other sites).
http://www.eco.org/ (Environmental Careers Organization--internships and jobs in environmental field).
http://www.webdirectory.com/Employment/ (comprehensive site for environmental employment information and posting of resumes).
Sustainability Sites
http://www.sustainablegreenbay.com/ (Sustainable Green Bay Initiative site)
http://www.naturalstep.org/ (The Natural Step site, with principles of sustainability for corporations and others, related to Paul Hawken’s book The Ecology of Commerce).
http://www.sustainable.org/ (Sustainable Communities Network. Good information on sustainability tools and references, with many links to other sites and extensive bibliographies).
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/ (very useful site for information on sustainability actions).
http://www.geonetwork.org/links (Geolink Library--400 sustainable development links that include urban sprawl, green design for buildings, green living, news, etc.).
http://www.subjectmatters.com/indicators/ (excellent site for sustainability indicators).
http://www.rprogress.org/ (Redefining Progress, a policy organization that works for sustainability by trying to redefine the meaning of human progress).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/PCSD/
(President’s Council on Sustainable Development).
Fall 2001
Discussion Sign ups
Sept
11 Russ Japuntich
and Jay Hodgson
Sept
18 Hannah
Miyamoto and Tom Van Drasek
Sept
25 Marica
Hauck-Whealta and Jeanette Jaskula
Oct
2 Amy Piaget Callis
and Brennan Haworth
Oct
9 Mark Isaacson
Oct
16
Kendra Axness
Oct
23
Warren Hohn
Oct
30
Joe Raborn
Nov
6
Coleen Feucht and John Potokar
Nov
13 Kristin
Kubsch and Hiroko Yamagishi
Nov
20 Erin
Gatzke and Anne Schauer
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