1. 1-Introduction
1.1. A tale of two texts
1.1.1. Living in the Environment
1.1.2. Environment & Society
1.2. Oostvaardersplassen
2. 2-Population and Scarcity
2.1. Population growth basics
2.2. Demographic transition
3. 3-Markets and Commodities
3.1. Market response model
3.2. Other
3.2.1. The wager
3.2.2. Coase theorem
3.2.3. Market solutions
3.2.4. Jevons paradox
3.2.5. Economism
3.3. The questions pyramid
3.3.1. Descriptive
3.3.2. Explanatory
3.3.3. Evaluative
3.3.4. Instrumental
4. 4-Institutions & The Commons
4.1. Institutions defined
4.2. The commons
4.3. (Mis)management of the commons
4.3.1. Tragedy of the commons
4.3.2. Prisoner's dilemma
4.3.3. Elinor Ostrom
5. 5-Environmental Ethics
5.1. The land ethic and ecocentrism
5.2. Animal welfare/rights
5.3. Deep ecology
5.4. Ethics critiques
6. 6-Risks and Hazards
6.1. Hazards & risks
6.2. Risk society theory
6.3. Psychology of risk perception
6.4. Risk assessment
6.5. Grid-group theory
6.5.1. Myths of nature
7. 7-Political Economy
7.1. David Harvey on Great Recession
7.2. Crises of under/overproduction
7.3. Other
7.3.1. Contradictions of capitalism
7.3.2. Uneven development
7.3.3. Related social movements
7.3.4. Political economty critiques
8. 8-Social Construction of Nature
8.1. Old-growth Pac NW forests
8.1.1. Definition
8.1.2. Extent
8.1.3. Management
8.1.4. Videos
8.1.4.1. Wilderness Society
8.1.4.2. Caterpillar Corp.
8.2. Social construction of nature
8.2.1. Ontological
8.2.2. Epistemological
9. 3/16: Wicked problems/clumsy solutions
9.1. Readings
9.1.1. Rayner: Wicked problems
9.1.2. Lach et al.: CA water
9.1.3. Verweij et al.: Climate
9.2. Questions
9.2.1. Wicked problems
9.2.2. Clumsy solutions
9.2.3. Contemporary vs. classic approaches