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Week 4
Supplementary Material for Week 3 Lectures
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 Videos of Class 4 Lectures

Monitoring & Modeling: The Ongoing Evidence
 

Dr. George E. Clark, Environmental Resources Librarian & Curator of the Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives

Dr. George Clark will discuss the major sources and techniques you will find useful in gathering further evidence about climate change science and policy-related issues. Topics to be covered will include how to access current news sources, journal articles, government publications, and the published materials of non-governmental organizations.

 
George Clark
Introductory Library Guide for Environmental Studies E-130
 

Background material:

Harvard University Gazette
2002
 "Environmental Info Center has new librarian, plans for future," Harvard University Gazette, February 14, 2002.

Non-specialist, general audience literature - example, Harvard Magazine

 Shaw, Jonathan
 
2002 
 "The Great Global Experiment," Harvard Magazine.(November-December 2002).

 BBC - Oxford University - Met Climate Office - UK
 
2006 
 Take Part in the largest climate prediction experiment ever. - Invitation to join web-based, global effort to monitor climate.
The North vs The South?
Convergent Crises but Divergent Views
and a growing sense of greivance...
Timothy C. Weiskel
 
 

     "Climate change may be the biggest North-South cooperation challenge the world has ever faced. While facilitating the affluence of industrialized countries, fossil fuel-based development has been largely responsible for causing climate change.... Because developing countries did not create the environmental problem in the first place, industrialized countries should take the lead in remedial action. Climate change is not only a global environmental issue but also a North-South equity issue."

Anil Agarwal

Readings:

Athanasiou, Tom & Paul Baer
  2002 Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming (New York, Seven Stories Press, 2002) entire.
Stephen H. Schneider (Editor), John O. Niles (Editor), Armin Rosencranz (Editor)
  2002 Climate Change Policy: A Survey (Washington, D. C., Island Press, 2002), pp. 375-408.
Athanasiou, Tom
  2007 The Inconvenient Truth, Part II - an EcoEquity Discussion Paper (18 February 2007).

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