Papers and News Reports Mentioned in Class
2007
Wong, K. 2005. The Littlest Human, Scientific American, Feb 2005 issue.
Costanza, The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital, Nature, 1997.
Pimm, The value of everything, Nature, 1997.
Balmford, Economic reasons for conserving wild nature, Science, 2002.
Nigel, Estimating the size of the world's threatened species, Science, 2002.
Expanding trade with China creates ecological backlash, Science, Nov 5, 2004 (Dennis Normile)
Statements related to global climate and environmental change
Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the most authoritative and closely reviewed summary of the state of climate science. The Summary for Policymakers provides the most general overview but all part of the three volumes may be read online.
The American Meteorological Society Statement on Climate Change Research by the is available at http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/climatechangeresearch_2003.html
The American Geophysical Union statement on Climate Change (click here)
The American Association for the Advancement of Science statement on Climate Change is available at http://www.ourplanet.com/aaas/pages/atmos02.html
The National Academy of Sciences report "Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions (prepared in response to a request from the Whitehouse for a review of the key issues and the state of our knowledge on climate change. It can be read on line at http://books.nap.edu/html/climatechange/climatechange.pdf
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA): Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
The U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
Other interesting and relevant items
A recent three part series appearing in The New Yorker
The Climate of Man: Part I by Elizabeth Kolbert The New Yorker, April 25, 2005 issue
Disappearing islands, thawing permafrost, melting polar ice. How the earth is changing.
The Climate of Man: Part II by Elizabeth Kolbert The New Yorker, May 2, 2005 issue
The curse of Akkad
The Climate of Man: Part III by Elizabeth Kolbert (not yet available)
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