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Course
Outline
(copied from Fall 2001 syllabus)
The Systems View of Sustainability
The Concept
of Sustainability
Week I (Aug. 22-24))
(1) Introduction to the idea of sustainability
* Text: Chapter 1
*On Reserve: Daly, H.E. 1992. Steady-state Economics: Concepts,
Questions, Policies. Gaia, No. 6, pp. 333-338.
(2) Defining sustainability in ecological systems: Stock dynamics
and balances
*Text: Chapter 2
*On Reserve: Reichle, D.E. 1975. Advances in Ecosystem Analysis.
Bioscience, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 257-264.
*Text: Chapter 2 and part of 5
Week
II (Aug. 27, 29 & 31)
(1) A comparison of ecological and economic systems: Theory, stocks
and flows
*Text: Chapter 2, Table 2.1, and Chapter 3
*On Reserve: Costanza, R. and H.E. Daly. 1992. Natural Capital and
Sustainable Development. Conservation Biology, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp.
37-46.
(2) Defining sustainability of economic and social systems: Intergenerational
and Geographic Equity and Public vs. Private Responsibility
*Text: Chapter 3
*On Reserve: Shrivastava, P. 1995. Ecocentric Management for a Risk
Society. Academy of Management Review, Vol. 20, pp. 118-137.
Assignment: Reaction Paper #1, Due Sept 5.
(3) “Mass Balance” and other developments in environmental
accounting
*Text: Parts of Chapter 4
*On Reserve: Rubenstein, D. March, 1991. "Lessons of Love,"
CA Magazine, pp. 35-41.The Systems View of Resources, Economics,
Business, and Integrity
Week III (Sept. 4, 5 & 7—Note Mon./Tues. Switch Day)
(1) Estimating present values through discounting methods
*Text: Chapter 6
*On Reserve: Stinson, C.H. and S.C. Schaltegger. 1993. Environmental
Accounting. Manuscript, September, 1993.
(2) Business accounting and environmental accounting: The Company’s
Health and Safety Division
*Text: Chapter 6
* On Reserve: Goodfellow, J. and A. Willis. 1991. What's the Name
of the Game? CA Magazine, March, pp. 43-50.
(3) Case Study Discussion: Internal Environmental Health and Safety
Auditing: The Ashland Chemical Company Example
*Text: Chapter 9
Valuing Assets: Measurement, Ethics and the Problem of Discounting
Week IV (Sept. 10, 12 & 14)
(1) The problem of measuring sustainability
* Text: Chapter 4
*On Reserve: Liverman, D.M., M.E. Hanson, B.J. Brown, and R.W. Merideth.
1988. "Global Sustainability: Toward Measurement" Environmental
Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 133-143.
(2) Considering values and ethics in valuation
*Text, Chapter. 5
*On Reserve: Kahneman, D. and J. Knetsch. 1992. Valuing Public Goods:
The Purchase of Moral Satisfaction. Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management, Vol. 22, pp. 57-70.
(3) Intergenerational equity in valuation
*Text, Chapter. 5
*On Reserve: Goodpaster, K.E. 1990. "Can a Corporation Have
an Environmental Conscience?" In Hoffman, Frederick, and Petry,
The Corporation, Ethics, and the Environment, Quorum Books, New
York.
Application to Resources Industries: Forestry, Fisheries and
Biodiversity with Case Studies
Week V (Sept. 17, 19 & 21)
(1) Measuring stocks and flows in the forest resource industries
* Text: Chapter 4
*On Reserve: Greber, Brian J. and K. Norman Johnson. 1991. "What's
All this Debate About Overcutting?", Journal of Forestry, Vol.
89, No. 11, pp. 25-30.
(2) Sustainability of wood harvests, salmon streams, logging communities
and biodiversity
*Text: Chapter 4 and Appendices to Chapter 10
Assignment: Reaction Paper #2, due Sept. 28
(3) MAXXAM Case discussion; MAXXAM Group Inc.’s takeover of
Pacific Lumber
*Text: Chapter 10
*On Reserve: Newton, Lisa H. 1990. "The Chainsaws of Greed:
The Case of Pacific Lumber," in The Corporation, Ethics, and
the Environment - W. Michael Hoffman, Robert Frederick, and Edward
S. Petry, Jr., ed. New York: Quorum Books.
Week VI (Sept. 24, 26 & 28)
(1) Sustaining fisheries and the seafood industry
*Text: Chapter 4
*On Reserve: Safina, Carl. 1994. Where have all the Fishes Gone?
Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 37-43.
(2) Business and Biodiversity: Conflict or Complement?
*On Reserve: Rubin, J., G. Helfand, and J. Loomis. 1991. "A
Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Northern Spotted Owl," Journal
of Forestry, Vol. 89, No. 12, pp. 25-30.
(3) Valuing the reduction of risks to biodiversity in a Central
Ohio watershed
*On Reserve: Sedjo, Roger A. 1992. “Preserving Biodiversity
as a Resource.” Resources, No. 106 Winter
*Team Project Assignment: due Nov. 28.Sustainability Principles
in Corporate Management: Case Studies
Week VII (Oct. 1, 3 & 5.)
(1) Stakeholders’ interests: Information and Dialogue for Conflict
Resolution
* Text: Chapter 7
*On Reserve: Nadler, S. 1993. Identifying and Prioritizing Stakeholders.
In, Corporate Quality Environmental Management III: Leadership -
Vision to Reality. Conference Proceedings, March 1993, Arlington,
VA.
(2) Case discussion: Rainforest Negotiation Exercise: Oil Development
in Ecuadorian Amazon.
(3) MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Week VIII (Oct. 8, 10 & 12)
(1) Risk Assessment and Regulation in Corporate Decision Making
*Text: Chapter 7 and 8
*On Reserve: Talcott, Frederick W. 1992. "How Certain is that
Environmental Risk Estimate?" Resources, Spring, pp. 10-15.
(2) Waste Management and Recycling
*On Reserve: Lodge, G.C. and J.F. Rayport. 1991. Knee-Deep and Rising:
America's Recycling Crises. Harvard Business Review, September-October,
pp. 128-139.
(3) Case Discussion: Closing the Loop, the D.J. Joseph Co. of Cincinnati
*Text: Chapter 14
Week IX (Oct. 15 & 17. Friday is Fall Break)
(1) Components of modern “Industrial Metabolism”
*On Reserve: Frosch, R.A. 1994. Industrial Ecology: Minimizing the
Impact of Industrial Waste. Physics Today, Vol. 47, No. 11, pp.
63-68.
(2) Marketing the Good Life; Sustainability and growing the demand.
*Text: Chapter 7
*On Reserve: Kleiner, A. 1991. "The Three Faces of Dow: Understanding
Dow Chemical's Environmental Change of Heart," Corporate Environmentalism,
July/August, pp. 52-58.
Applications to Resources: Water, Agriculture and Case
Studies
Week X (Oct. 22, 24 & 26)
(1) Case Discussion: The Procter and Gamble Company: Reducing Packaging
Waste in the US and Germany, 1987-94.
* Text: Chapter 16
(2) Western Water: Asset Appropriation, Public Subsidy and Business
Decisions
*Text: Chapter 4
*On Reserve: Charney, A.H. and G.C. Woodward. 1990. Socioeconomic
Impacts of Water Farming on Rural Areas of Origin in Arizona. American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. ?, pp. 1194-1199.
(3) Eastern Air: Asset Appropriation and business decisions involving
public goods at large scale.
*Text: Chapter 4
Week
XI (Oct. 29, 31 & Nov. 2)
(1) Agricultural Costs and Agricultural Policies: Values and Ethics
in Food and Health.
*On Reserve: Kleiner, A. What Does It Mean to Be Green? Harvard
Business Review, Vol. 69, No. 4, 38-47.
*On Reserve: Faeth, P., R. Repetto, K. Kroll, Q. Dai and G. Helmers.
1991. Overview, Policy Analysis and Conclusions. In Paying the Farm
Bill. World Resources Institute. pp. 1-27.
(2) Case Discussion: Walnut Acres, Organic Farms
*Text: Chapter 10
(3) Case Study: From the Earth to the Table: Fetzer Vineyards
*Text: Chapter 12
Application to The Global Commons: Energy, Air and
Greenhouse Gases
Week XII (Nov. 5, 7 & 9)
(1) Energy, its Externalities and the Context for Global Change.
*On Reserve: Flavin, C. 1994. Storm Warnings: Climate Change Hits
the Insurance Industry. World Watch, November/December, p 10-20.
*On Reserve: Duncan, N.E. 1992. The Energy Dimensions of Sustainability.
Columbia Journal of World Business, Fall and Winter, p. 164-173.
(2) Electricity Production: Options and Regulatory Framework for
Public Policy on Energy.
*On Reserve: Cullen, Robert. 1993, "The True Cost of Coal,"
The Atlantic Monthly, December.
(3) Energy Options, Policy Choices, Global Warming and the 1997
Kyoto Conference: A Discussion
*Hammond, A.L., E. Rodenburg, and W. Moomow. 1990. "Accountability
in the greenhouse," Nature, Vol. 347, pp. 705-706.
Week XIII (Nov. 12 14 & 16)
(1) Case study discussion: Cincinnati Gas & Electric
* Text: Chapter 17
(2) Transboundry SO2 and Acid Rain Control.
*On Reserve: Shmalensee, Richard, et al.. 1998. An Interim Evaluation
of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Trading. Journal of Economic Perspectives,
Vol. 12 No. 3, 53-68.
(3) Business opportunities derived from the need for alternative
energy sources.
*On Reserve: Loucks , O.L. 2001. Business Capitalizing on Energy
Transition Opportunities. Chapter in A Climate Change Reader, edited
by Professors Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, and John O.
Niles, Island Press.
Environmental Security and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Week XIV (Nov. 19 + Thanksgiving Break)
(1) Case discussion: The Chemical Manufacturing Association and
Responsible Care: The Role of Community-Industry Dialogue in Risk
Management
* Text: Chapter 18
Week XV (Nov. 26, 28 & 30)
(1) International lending and sustainability: Water and the Narmada
Dam Project in India
* On Reserve: Ahmad, A. 1999. The Narmada Water Resources Project,
India: Implementing Sustainable Development. Ambio, A Journal of
the Human Environment. Vol. XXVIII, No. 5, pp. 398-403.
*On Reserve: Rushdie, S. 2001. A Foolish Dam and a Writer’s
Freedom. The New York Times, August 7, 2001.
(2) Multinational conservation through debt-for-nature swaps.
*On Reserve: Pattersen, A. 1990. Debt for Nature Swaps and the Need
for Alternatives. Environment, Vol. 32, pp. 115-125.
*Text Chapter 8.
*Semester Project Reports Due, Nov. 28
(3) Sustainability as a Component of International Security
*On Reserve: Homer-Dixon, T.F. 1991. On the Threshold: Environmental
Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict. International Security, Vol.
16, No. 2, pp. 76-116.
Week XVI (Dec. 3, 5 & 7)
(1) Team Project Presentations I
(2) Team Project Presentations II
(3) Team Project Presentations III
Week
XVII
Exam: Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 12:30pm
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