Energy, Environment, and Society: Global Politics, Technologies, and Ecologies of the Water-Energy-Food Crises

Readings

Ses #	Readings
Introduction: Linking Environments, Politics, and Societies in the 21st Century
1	No assigned readings
2	Pretty, Jules, Andrew Ball, et al. “Introduction to Environment and Society.” Chapter 1 in The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society. Sage Publications, 2007. ISBN: 9781412918435 World Economic Forum. “Beyond the Anthropocene | Johan Rockstrom.” Feb. 14, 2017. YouTube. Recommended: Benson, Michael. “Gorgeous Glimpses of Calamity.” New York Times. Aug. 16, 2013.
Historically Assessing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus / Crisis
3	Biggs, Eloise, Elanor Bruce, et al. “Sustainable Development and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Perspective on Livelihoods.” Envronmental Science & Policy 54 (2015): 389–397. Paskal, Cleo. The Vulnerability of Energy Infrastructure to Environmental Change. Chatham House, 2009.
4	Taylor, Peter Leigh and David A. Sonnenfeld. “Water Crises and Institutions: Inventing and Reinventing Governance in an Era of Uncertainty.” Society & Natural Resources 30, no. 4 (2017): 395–403. Davis, Diana. The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge. MIT Press, 2016. Chapter 1. ISBN: 9780262034524
Going Global and Comparative: Comparative Environmental Governance
5	Steinberg, Paul and Stacy VanDeever. Comparative Environmental Politics: Theory, Practice, and Prospects. MIT Press, 2012. Chapters 1–3.  ISBN: 9780262693684 Steinberg, Paul. Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia. MIT Press, 2001. Chapter 1–2. ISBN: 9780262692663 Recommended: Duit, Andreas. State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance. MIT Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780262525817
Irrigation, Agriculture, and the Green Revolution
6	No assigned readings
7	Fiege, Mark. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. University of Washington Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780295980133
Fishing Industries, the Blue Revolution, & Ocean Ecosystems
8	Jorgensen, Dolly, Finn Arne Jorgensen, and Sara Pritchard, eds. “Environmentalists on Both Sides: Enactments in the California Rigs-to Reefs Debate.” In New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780822962427 Cushman, Gregory. Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Chapter 9. ISBN: 9781107655966
9	Layzer, Judith. “The New England Fishereis Crisis.” Chapter 8 in The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy. CQ Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781452239897 Recommended: Cruz-Torres, Maria Luz and Pamela McElwee eds. “Contested Livelihoods: Gender, Fisheries, and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico.” In Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America. University of Arizona Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780816537952
Water & Food Security
10	No assigned readings
11	No assigned readings
Power & Hydropower
12	Tucker, Richard. “Containing Communism by Impounding Rivers: American Strategic Interest and the Global Spread of High Dams in the Early Cold War.” In Environmental Histories of the Cold War. Edited by J.R. McNeil and Corinna Unger. Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781107694353 Obeng, Letitia. “Should Dams Be Built? The Volta Lake Example.” Ambio 6, no. 1 (1977): 46–50. Tironi, Manuel, et al. “Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile.” In Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America. Edited by Eden Medina et al., MIT Press, 2014, pp. 305–330. ISBN: 9780262526203
13	No assigned readings
Urban Water Infrastructure & Waste Management
14	Steinberg, Theodore. “Introduction.” In Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780870239434
15	No assigned readings
Water Law, Markets, & Neoliberalism
16	Bauer, Carl. “Bringing Water Markets Down to Earth: The Political Economy of Water Rights in Chile, 1976–95.” World Development 25, no. 5 (1997): 639–656. Schneider, Friedrich, Andrea Kolllman, and Johannes Reichl, eds. Politcal Economy and Instruments of Environmental Politics. MIT Press, 2015. Introduction and Chapter 2. ISBN:  9780262029247
17	Layzer, Judith. “The Nation Tackles Pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Water Acts.” Chapter 2 in The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy. CQ Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781452239897
Gender, Race, & Water Security
18	Naiga, Resty, Marianne Penker, and Karl Hogl. “Women’s Crucial Role in Collective Operation and Maintenance of Drinking Water Infrastructure in Rural Uganda.” Society & Natural Resources 30, no. 4 (2017), 506–520. Cruz-Torres, Maria Luz and Pamela McElwee eds. Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America. University of Arizona Press, 2017. Chapters 1, 5, and 7. ISBN: 9780816537952 Recommended: Lejano, Raul, Mrill Ingram, and Helen Ingram. The Power of Narrative in Environmental Networks. MIT Press, 2013. Chapters 1 and 7. ISBN:  9780262519571
Virtual Waters: Integrating Energy, Waste, Agriculture, & Climate Policy
19	No assigned reading
20	Bryner, Gary and Robert Duffy. Integrating Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution Policies. MIT Press, 2012. Chapters 1, 2, and 7. ISBN: 9780262517874 Jones, Toby. Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia. Harvard University Press, 2010. Chapter 1. ISBN: 9780674049857 Recommended:  Pollin, Robert. Greening the Global Economy. MIT Press, 2015. Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 8. ISBN:  9780262028233
Knowledge & Science in Environmental Policy
21	Ascher, William, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy. Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics. MIT Press, 2010. Chapters 1, 5, and 7. ISBN: 9780262514378 Norman, Emma. “Standing Up for Inherent Rights; The Role of Indigenous-led Activism in Protecting Sacred Waters and Ways of Life.” Society & Natural Resources 30, no. 4 (2017): 537–553.
22	Whiteside, Kerry. Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk. MIT Press, 2006. Introduction and Chapters 1 and 3. ISBN: 9780262731799 Hirsch, Richard and Benjamin Sovacool. “Wind Turbines and Invisible Technology: Unarticulated Reasons for Local Opposition to Wind Energy.” Technology and Culture 54, no. 4 (2013): 705–734.  Recommended:  Mitchell, Ronald, William Clark, et al. eds. Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence. MIT Press, 2006. Chapters 1, 4, and 8–10.  ISBN: 9780262633369 Supran, Geoffrey and Naoimi Oreskes. “Opinion: What Exxon Mobile Didn’t Say About Climate Change.” New York Times, Aug. 22. 2017.
Environmental Justice, Energy Security, & Policy Change
23	Bullard, Robert. Dumping the Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Routledge, 2008. Chapter 2–3. ISBN: 9780813367921 Cole, Luke and Sheila Foster. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. NYU Press, 2001. Chapter 6. ISBN: 9780814715370 Recommended: Bullard, Robert and Glenn Johnson. “Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making.” Journal of Social Issues 56, no. 3 (2000), 555–578.
24	Romano, Sarah. “Building Capacities for Sustainable Water Governance at the Grassroots: “Organic Empowerment” and its Policy Implications in Nicaragua.” Society & Natural Resources 30, no. 4 (2017), 471–487. Finley-Brook, Mary and Erica Holloman. “Empowering Energy Justice.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 13, no. 9 (2016): 926. De Onis, Catalina. “Energy Colonialism Powers the Ongoing Unnatural Disaster in Puerto Rico.” Front. Comm. 3 (2018).
Race, Democracy, and Global Environmental Governance
25	No assigned reading
26	No assigned reading