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Environment Study Guide Exam 1

NOTE: The exam may include anything from lecture or the readings. Be sure to review all
of your materials! The following guide is to help you focus your efforts but should not
replace a comprehensive understanding of the course materials! Any examples you give
should come from readings.

1. Environmental services for humans
2. I=PAT
3. Ecological footprint
4. Biocapacity
5. Ecological Overshoot
6. What happens when we lose biodiversity and degrade ecosystems?
7. Global Living Planet Index (GLPI)
8. Global Living Planet Index by Income
9. GLPI Temperate vs. Tropical
10. LPI Terrestrial, Marine, Freshwater
11. Water Footprint and water scarcity
12. CO2 and Climate Change; 400 ppm
13. Deforestation and causes
14. Ocean provisions
15. History of Environmental Sociology
16. World Systemscore, semi-periphery, periphery, unequal exchange (examples)
17. Treadmill of production
18. Ecological modernizationcritiques
19. Natural Capitalism
20. Perverse incentives
21. New Ecological Paradigm
22. Human Exemptionalism Paradigm
23. Steady State Economy
24. Be ready to explain what drives climate change
25. Scientific consensus
26. Why has little been done to curb climate change
27. Media and climate change
28. Climate change in 1990s
29. Awareness and concern for climate change
30. Sustainability3 Es
31. Globalization
32. 3 Great TransitionsPaleolithic, Neolithic, Capitalism (industrialization and
urbanization)
33. Characteristics of each kind of society
34. How did each transition affect the environment
35. Social aspects of sustainability
36. Democracy
37. Pluralism vs. elite theory
38. Think Tanks
39. The revolving door of politics
40. Interlocking directorates
Environment Study Guide Exam 1
41. Ecofeminism
42. Why consider gender and race and the environment?
43. Logic of dominationwhere did it come from?
44. Mechanization of nature
45. Global ecological revolutionwhat does it consist of?

DONT FORGET TO LOOK OVER THE READINGS!!!

WWF, Living Planet Report; Ponting, A New Green History; Merchant, Ecological Revolutions

York, Richard and Riley E. Dunlap. 2012. Environmental Sociology. Pp. 504-15 in The Wiley-
Blackwell Companion to Sociology, edited by George Ritzer.

Hawken, Paul, Amory B. Lovins, and Hunter L. Lovins. 2007. A Road Map for Natural Capitalism.
Harvard Business Review 85(7-8): 172.

Foster, John Bellamy. 2012. The Planetary Rift and the New Human Exemptionalism: A Political-
Economic Critique of Ecological Modernization Theory. Organization & Environment 25: 211-37.

Monthly Review. 2013. Notes from the Editors. Monthly Review 64(8): 1-2.

Moore, Kelly, Daniel Lee Kleinman, David Hess, and Scott Frickel. 2011. Science and Neoliberal
Globalization: A Political Sociological Approach. Theory and Society 40(5): 505-532.

York, Richard. 2012. Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Fossil Fuels? Nature Climate Change
2:441-43.

York, Richard. 2010. Three Lessons from Trends in CO
2
Emissions and Energy Use in the United
States. Society & Natural Resources 23:1244-52.

Norgaard, Karie Marie. 2010. Cognitive and Behavioral Challenges in Responding to Climate
Change. Policy Research Working Paper 4940-Background Paper to the 2010 World Development
Report. Washington D.C.: The World Bank.

Jacques, Peter J., Riley E. Dunlap, and Mark Freeman. 2008. The Organisation of Denial:
Conservative Think Tanks and Environmental Scepticism. Environmental Politics 17(3): 349-85.

U.N. Women Watch. Women, Gender Equality and Climate Change: Fact Sheet
www.un.org/womenwatch

World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Peoples Agreement
of Cochabamba. April 22nd, 2010. Cochabamba, Bolivia.
http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peoples-agreement/

Taylor, Dorceta. 2002. Race, Class, Gender, and American Environmentalism. United States
Department of Agriculture. Department of Forestry. General Technical Report PNW- GTR-534.

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