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Links and Relevant Items for UCONJ 540

Background Readings:

Ecological Footprint Calculation

Climate Change and Human Health
by Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.

Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease

Effects of Global Climate on Infectious Disease: The Cholera Model

Social and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases

The Ends of the World as We Know Them, The New York Times

Atlas of Population and Enviroment
Overview (Part 1) and from Part 2, Population and Landuse, the section on Urbanization.

The Tragedy of the Commons: The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. Hardin, Garrett

The Removal of Lead from Gasoline: Historical and Personal Reflections, Needleman, H.

Frumkin, H., J. Hess, and S. Vindigni. 2007. Peak petroleum and public health. JAMA 298(14):1688-1690. doi:10.1001/jama.298.14.1688
[NOTE: Keep your eye out for the July, 2011 issue of the American Journal of Public Health focusing on peak petroleum and its impact on health (edited by Howard Frumkin, Dean UW School of Public Health)]

Frumkin H, Hess J, Luber G, Malilay J, and McGeehin M. 2008. Climate change: The public health response. Am J Public Health 98:435-445. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.088906.

Kaste, Martin. Nov. 28, 2006. NPR Morning Edition: 'Carbon Offset' Business Takes Root

Klingle, M. W. 2007. Emerald city: an environmental history of Seattle. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Homer-Dixon T. Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases.
Also read parts 2 and 3, (both can be reached by links from Part 1).

Sachs J, et al. Investing in Development. A Practical Plan to Acheive the Millennium Development Goals.
Scroll down to the "Full Report" and read the following sections: Main Report, Ch 0 ("Front Matter"); Ch 5 (pp.65-71-notice especially the section entitled "Quick Wins", and 90-92); Ch 10 (pp.146-157).

Karr, J. R. Indicators: It Matters What We Measure University of Washington

Sustainability and Medicine: http://depts.washington.edu/samatuw

UNEP: Climate in Peril - A popular guide to the latest IPCC reports
http://www.grida.no/files/publications/ClimateInPeril.pdf

WWF: Living Planet Report 2010
Downloadable by clicking on "Read the whole report" at: http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/2010_lpr/

UNEP Yearbook 2011: Emerging Issues in Our Global Environment
http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2011/
http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2011/pdfs/UNEP_YEARBOOK_Fullreport.pdf

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) http://www.maweb.org/en/Reports.aspx#
1) Ecosystems & Human Well-being: Synthesis See "Summary for Decision Makers" http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf
2) Ecosystems & Human Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis
See "Summary for Decision Makers"
http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.354.aspx.pdf
UNEP: Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 (2010)
http://gbo3.cbd.int/
http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/gbo/gbo3-final-en.pdf

FAO: State of the World's Forests 2010
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i2000e/i2000e00.htm
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i2000e/i2000e.pdf

FAO: The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010
Not very exciting reading, but the best single, current, detailed source on the subject.
See Part 1, World Review of Fisheries and Aquaculture
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1820e/i1820e00.htm
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1820e/i1820e.pdf

A good, single assessment of water and sanitation around the world: WHO-UNICEF: Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2010 update:
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/9789241563956/en/index.html
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241563956_eng_full_text.pdf

World's Worst Pollution Problems Report 2010: Top Six Toxic Threats
http://www.worstpolluted.org/
http://www.worstpolluted.org/files/FileUpload/files/2010/WWPP-2010-Report-Web.pdf

BIODIVERSITY

Extinction risk of climate change, Nature

Prospects for Diversity, Science

Armsworth, P.R., B.E. Kendall, and F.W. Davis. 2004. An introduction to biodiversity concepts for environmental economists. Resource and Energy Economics 26:115-136.

Chivian E. and A. Bernstein, eds. 2008. Sustaining life: how human health depends on biodiversity. New York, Oxford University Press.

Dirzo, R. and P.H. Raven. 2003. Global State of Biodiversity and Loss. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 28:137-67.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. 2011. Technological Nature: Adaptation and the future of human life. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Wilson, E. O. 2002. The future of life. NY, Alfred A. Knopf.

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