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Randolph, John. Environmental Land Use Planning and Management. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004. ISBN: 1559639482.

This book provides a set of techniques and strategies with which to approach environmental planning problems. This section of the course is the largest, so as to give students a comprehensive overview of methods for tackling environmental planning challenges.

DesJardins, Joseph R. Environmental Ethics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993. ISBN: 053420046X.

Hanson, Philip, ed. Environmental Ethics: Philosophical and Policy Perspectives. Burnaby, British Columbia: Simon Fraser University, 1986. ISBN: 0864910614.

These books set out the major philosophical debates facing environmental planners. As students prepare themselves for the four debates, they should use these books as references to help them identify the philosophical underpinnings of the various approaches to environmental planning. This section of the course is intended to challenge students to identify and understand their own beliefs and convictions as part of broader debates within the field.

Daniels, Tom, and Katherine Daniels. The Environmental Planning Handbook. Washington, DC: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 2003. ISBN: 188482966X.

The last section of the course is intended to give students an overview of the practice of environmental planning. This book serves as a useful reference to show what environmental planners actually do. It addresses a wide variety of environmental planning issues, from sustainable air and water quality to mining and transportation. It is meant to complement the presentations given by the Environmental Policy Group faculty.

Course readings.

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
Part I: Introduction
L1	Introduction and Overview
L2	Game 1: Puerto Mauricio
R1	Gentle Introduction to Blogging
L3	Puerto Mauricio: Post-game Redux
Part II: The Environmental Policy Debate
L4	Growth vs. Scarcity	Abernethy, Virginia Deane. "Carrying capacity: the tradition and policy implications of limits." Ethics in Science and Environmental Policy (January 2001): 9-18. Bailey, Ronald. "Post-Scarcity Prophet: Economist Paul Romer on growth, technological change, and an unlimited human future." Reason (December 2001). WorldBank. "From The Economist-CON and PRO: Quantity and Quality Why Quality Matters." Development Outreach (Winter 2001).
R2	Debates
L5	Utilitarianism vs. Deep Ecology	Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. London, UK: Electric Book Co., 2005. ISBN: 9781421928760. Chertow, Marian R., and Daniel C. Esty. Thinking Ecologically: the Next Generation of Environmental Policy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0300073038. Leonard, Herman B., and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended." In Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works. Edited by David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0195139097. Schumacher College - What is Deep Ecology? Michael E. Zimmerman - Introduction to Deep Ecology Devall, Bill. "The Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: 1960-2000 - A Review." Ethics and the Environment. Zimmerman, Michael E. "Deep Ecology, Ecoactivism, and Human Evolution." (PDF) Deep Ecology Critique on the Green Fuse Bioregionalism and Deep Ecology: Bibliography
L6	Command-Control vs. Markets	Harrington, Winston, and Richard D. Morgenstern. "Economic Incentives versus Command and Control: What's the Best Approach for Solving Environmental Problems?" Resources. Giuliano, Genevieve, and Martin Wachs. "Managing Transportation Demand: Markets Versus Mandates." Reason Foundation Policy Study. Pearce, David. "An Intellectual History of Environmental Economics." Annual Review of Energy and the Environment: 72-75. Portney, Paul R. "Market-Based Approaches to Environmental Policy." Resources (Summer 2003): 15-18. (PDF) Harrington, Winston, and Richard D. Morgenstern. "Economic Incentives Versus Command and Control: What's Best for Solving Environmental Problems?" Resources (Fall/Winter 2004): 13-17. (PDF) Fullerton, Don, and Robert Stavins. "How Economists See the Environment." Nature 395 (October 1998): 433-434. Ackerman, Frank, and Kevin Gallagher. "Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-based Environmental Policy." Global Development and Environment Institute Working Paper 00-05. Medford, MA: Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute, 2000. (PDF) David R. Karp, and Clark L. Gaulding. "Motivational Underpinnings of Command-and-Control, Market-Based, and Voluntarist Environmental Politics." Human relations 48, no. 5 (1995): 439-465. Meadows, Donella, H. Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. Limits to Growth, New York, NY: Signet Press, 1972, pp. 17-20. ISBN: 0451057678. Moran, D., and D. Pearce. "The Value of Biodiversity." World Conservation Union, Biodiversity Programme. London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 1994. Tietenberg, Tom H. "Economic Instruments for Environmental Regulation." In Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings. Edited by Robert N. Stavins. 4th ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN: 0393927016. "India opens account for trading in carbon credits." The Telegraph, September 21, 2005. Calcutta, India: ABP Pvt., Limited. Dinan, Terry, and Diane Lim Rogers. "Who Gains and Who Pays Under Carbon-Allowance Trading?" Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, June 2000. Dunkiel, Brian, Hamond, M. Jeff, and Jim Motavall. "Sharing the Wealth." E Magazine X, no. 2 (March/April, 1999). Marion, OH: Earth Action Network, Inc.
L7	Expert Knowledge vs. Indigenous Knowledge	Wenzel, George, W. "Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Inuit: Reflections on TEK Research and Ethics." Arctic 52, no. 2 (June 1999): 113-124. "Module 5: Indigenous Knowledge for the Environment." Based on draft module by Annette Gough, Griffin University as part of The Learning for a Sustainable Environment - Innovation in Teacher Education Project and Trials in Indonesia, Fiji, Brunei and Australia. Created on May 28, 2001, provided by the Centre for International Research and Advisory Networks/Nuffic. Briggs, John. "The Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Development: Problems and Challenges." Progress in Development Studies 5, no. 2 (2005): 99-114. Landry, Marc, et al. Civic Environmentalism in Action. Washington, DC: Progressive Policy Institute, Center for Innovation and the Environment, 1999. (PDF) Singleton, Sarah. "Collaborative Environmental Planning in the American West: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Environmental Politics (2002). McClosky, Michael. "Local Communities and the management of public forests." Ecology Law Quarterly (1999). Layzer, Judith. "The New England Fisheries: Crisis and Renewal." Chapter 10 in The Environmental Case: Translating Values Into Policy. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006. ISBN: 1568028989. The Context for the Guidelines: This Web site provides more arguments for the importance of indigenous knowledge. It also includes extensive guidelines for the appropriate inclusion of traditional knowledge in environmental assessment and development planning projects.
L8-L9	Game 2: Madrona
L10	Game 3: Joint Fact -finding
Part III: Environmental Planning Techniques and Strategies
L11	Environmental Planning and Management	Randolph. "Managing Human-Environment Interactions," and "Environmental Planning." Chapters 1 and 2.
L12	Land Use Planning and Collaborative Methods	Randolph. "Land Use Planning for Environmental Management," and "Collaborative Environmental Management and Public Participation." Chapters 3 and 4.
L13	Land Conservation and Sustainable Design	Randolph. "Land Conservation for Working Landscapes, Open Space and Ecological Protection," and "Design with Nature for People: Sustainable, Livable, and Smart Land Use Development." Chapters 5 and 6.
L14	Growth Management	Randolph. "Local Government Smart Growth Management," and "Regional, State and Federal Management of Environmentally Sensitive Lands." Chapters 7 and 8.
L15	Hazard Mitigation and Ecosystem Management	Randolph. "Natural Hazard Mitigation," and "Ecosystem and Watershed Management." Chapters 9 and 10.
L16	Geospatial Data	Randolph. "Environmental Geospatial Data and Geographic Information Systems," and "Soils, Topography and Land Use." Chapters 11 and 12.
L17	Stormwater Management and Runoff Pollution	Randolph. "Land Use, Stream Flows and Runoff Pollution," and "Stormwater Management and Stream Restoration." Chapters 13 and 14.
L18	Landscape Ecology	Randolph. "Land Use and Groundwater," and "Landscape Ecology, Urban Forestry and Wetlands." Chapters 15 and 16.
L19	Biodiversity and Integrated Assessment	Randolph. "Land Use, Wildlife Habitats, and Biodiversity," and "Integration Methods for Environmental Land Analysis." Chapters 17 and 18.
L20	Game 4: Pablo-Burford
Part IV: Synthesis and Preparation for Practice
L21-L22	EPG Faculty Presentation
R3	Your Final Memo	Booth, Wayne, et al. The Craft of Research. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ISBN: 0226065685.
L23-L24	EPG Faculty Presentation (cont.)
L25-L26	Final Memo Presentations and Discussion