Re: consumption rates comparisons

Hi all related to Stacy's request, can someone tell me the original source of the "20% of population consuming 80% of the worlds resources" dynamic? I think it was a world bank pub somewhere but I can not find it. Peter Peter J. Jacques, Ph.D. Department of Political

sustainability and pedagogy material

Hi folks, here are the responses I received for my request linking sustainability and pedagogy, thanks to those who sent me these suggestions: __ See Peggy F. Bartlett and Geoffrey W. Chase (eds.), /Sustainability on Campus/ (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2004) you might

(Real) compiliation of great urban thinkers

Happy New Year Gep-eders! Thank you very much to everyone who made this list a rich one indeed. I apologize for clogging your inboxes in the beginning. Great Urban thinkers/Urban Politics Reading list ● Ivan Illich ● Mike Davis (Planet of Slums) ● Paul Goodman ● Lewis

Re: Environment conflict films (compiled list)

Hi all, Here is some good irony before the weekend: I just finished showing Chinatown in my Urban Env. class (for those of you who don't know, the main villain gets away with theft of water and corrupt land deals as well as rape of his daughter). The film always plays well and most have

Re: Globalization and Environment references

And, there is a whole series from AltaMira/Rowman and Littlefield on Globalization and the Environment with several titles. Peter Peter J. Jacques, Ph.D. Department of Political Science University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161356 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816-1356 Phone:

Panel on environmentalism

Hi everyone, Jennifer Bailey and I are organizing a panel on environmentalism and opposition, and we would like to invite you if you are interested in the general ideas. If you are interested please respond off list directly to me. Right now this is our panel synopsis: Tree-huggers,

panel

Sorry, my post a minute ago neglected to note that the panel proposal if for ISA... peter Peter J. Jacques, Ph.D. Department of Political Science University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161356 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816-1356 Phone: (407) 823-2608 Fax: (407) 823-0051

Re: New CC conference

Wil raises an important (reflexive) and representative point: Why is CORE (Congress on Racial Equality-- one of the major original civil rights groups pivotal during the 1960s) involved? Here we have a historic civil rights group involved in the Freedom Rides, lunch counter sit-ins, the 1963

Re: Readings on GMOs

Hi Michael, A friend of mine, Carol Thompson, along with Andrew Mushita, recently published Biopiracy of Biodiversity: Global Exchange as Enclosure through Africa World Press. It treats GMOs as part of the enclosure imbedded in the Green Revolution/industrial agriculture; it has very

FT article on United Fruit and Empire

Hi Gep-eders In reading this morning's Financial Times, I ran across this piece by Peter Chapman on United Fruit (el pulpo or the octopus! due to its political tentacles. Those of you who use Ronnie Lipschutz's GEP book might find this an interesting supplement to his introduction on the

Re: Early Career Symposium for climate-change scientists - DISCCRS

If I may add-- I attended this last year and it was foundational in many ways. Ronald and Sue have put an exceptional program together that has already fostered a growing climate change research community. The program also provided rare insight-- e.g., some brief media training, and team work for

RE: Bjorn Lomborg

: making sense of controversy over The Skeptical Environmentalist Environ. Sci. Policy 7 405-417. Related: Boykoff, Maxwell, and Jules Boykoff. 2004. Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the US Prestige Press. Global Environmental Change 14: 125*136. Peter Jacques, Ph.D. Department of Political

Re: Globalization and the Environment

Also- Gabriela Kütting's Globalization and the environment : greening global political economy Albany State University of New York Press, c2004. and Confronting consumption, edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca. would both be essential references. Peter Peter

Re: ddt malaria

-ed pieces that have reinforced the oversimplification. Peter Peter Jacques, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161356 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816-1356 Phone: (407) 823-2608 Fax: (407) 823-0051 http

Urban fiction digest

to the Hardcover edition. Peter Jacques, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161356 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816-1356 Phone: (407) 823-2608 Fax: (407) 823-0051 http://www.cas.ucf.edu/politicalscience/main.php?URL=jacques

Fiction books

suggestions that would hit home. Non-fiction literature is also of interest. thanks, peter Peter Jacques, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161356 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816-1356 Phone: (407) 823-2608 Fax: (407) 823

Re: Green identity of states?

Estonia may also fit. Peter Jacques, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161356 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816-1356 Phone: (407) 823-2608 Fax: (407) 823-0051 http://www.cas.ucf.edu/politicalscience/main.php?URL

Re: Summary: References/websites for 'The International Politics of the Environment and the Internet'

I don't know why I didn't respond to this earlier, but I wonder if anyone has a sense of the impact of anti-environmental websites on any of these areas (policy, values, whatever). I suspect that the impact of places like www.junkscience.com is not inconsequential. Peter Peter Jacques, Ph.D