GRMD1403 Resources, Society and Environment: Required Readings

Geography: Concepts, traditions and modern applications

• Dahlman, C.T. & Renwick, W.H. (2014) Chapter 1 – Introduction to geography. In: C.T. Dahlman and W.H. Renwick, Introduction to Geography: People, Places & Environment, 6th Edition. New Jersey, Pearson Education, pp. 3-45.
• Pattison, W.D. (1964). The four traditions of geography. Journal of Geography, 63(5), 211-216.

Climate change

• Galloway, P.R. (1986) Long-term fluctuations in climate and population in the preindustrial era. Population & Development Review, 12(1): 1-24.
• Ge, Q., Zheng, J., Fang, X., Man, Z., Zhang, X., Zhang, P., and Wang, W.C. (2003) Winter half-year temperature reconstruction for the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, China, during the past 2000 years. The Holocene, 13(6): 933-940.
• Yang, B., Braeuning, A., Johnson, K.R., and Shi, Y. (2002) General characteristics of temperature variation in China during the last two millennia. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(9): 38-1.
• Zhang, P., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Chen, F., Wang, Y., Yang, X., Liu, J., Tan, M., Wang, X., Liu, J., An, C., Dai, Z., Zhou, J., Zhang, D., Jia, J., Jin, L., and Johnson, K.R. (2008) A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from an 1810-year Chinese cave record. Science, 322(5903): 940-942.

Biodiversity

• Chiras, D.D. & Reganold, J.P. (2014) Chapter 15 – Plant and animal extinction. In: D.D. Chiras and J.P. Reganold, Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future, 10th Edition, p. 405-428. New Jersey, Pearson Education.
• Wright, R.T. & Boorse, D.F. (2014) Chapter 6 – Wild species and biodiversity. In: R.T. Wright and D.F. Boorse, Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future (International Edition), p. 139-168. Boston, Pearson Education.

Global warming issues

• Engvild, K.C. (2003). A review of the risks of sudden global cooling and its effects on agriculture. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 115(3-4): 127-137.
• Moore, T.G. (2000) It is the Best of Climates; It will be the Worst of Climates? Retrieved Aug 05, 2018, from https://web.stanford.edu/~moore/ClEffects.pdf
• [Video] Durkin, M. (2007) The Great Global Warming Swindle. WagTV.
• [Video] Lomborg, B. (2007) Global priorities bigger than climate change. Retrieved Aug 05, 2018, from https://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_priorities

World patterns and regional trends of population

• Cohen, J.E. (1997). Population, economics, environment and culture: An introduction to human carrying capacity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 34(6): 1325-1333.
• Fellmann, J.D., Bjelland, M.D., Montello, D.R., Getis, A., & Getis, J. (2013). Chapter 4 – Population: World patterns, regional trends. In: J.D. Fellmann, M.D. Bjelland, D.R. Montello, A. Getis, and J. Getis, Human Geography: Landscape of Human Activities, 12th Edition, p. 93-124. New York, McGraw-Hill.
• Zhang, D.D., Lee, H.F., Wang, C., Li, B., Zhang, J., Pei, Q., & Chen, J. (2011). Climate change and large scale human population collapses in the pre-industrial era. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20(4): 520-531.

Sustainable urban development

• Beddoe, R., Costanza, R., Farley, J., Garza, E., Kent, J., Kubiszewski, I., Martinez, L., McCowen, T., Murphy, K., Myers, N., Ogden, Z., Stapleton, K., & Woodward, J. (2009). Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability: The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(8): 2483-2489.
• Dempsey, N., Bramley, G., Power, S., & Brown, C. (2011). The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability. Sustainable Development, 19(5): 289-300.
• Rees, W.E. (1992). Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: What urban economics leaves out. Environment & Urbanization, 4(2): 121-130.

Globalization and local context

• Dicken, P. (2011). Chapter 2 – Global shift: Changing geographies of the global economy. In: P. Dicken, Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, 6th Edition, p. 13-48. New York, The Guilford Press.
• Meyer, K.E. (2011). Multinational enterprises and local contexts: The opportunities and challenges of multiple embeddedness. Journal of Management Studies, 48(2): 235-252.
• Pacione, M. (2009). Chapter 14 – The economy of cities. In: M. Pacione, Urban Geography: A Global Perspective, 3rd Edition, p. 283-307. London and New York, Routledge.

GIS: A tool for geographical study

• Heywood, I., Cornelius, S. and Carver, S. (2011). An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems (4th Edition). Harlow, England: Prentice Hall.

Remote sensing: Learning geography from images

• Jensen, J.R. (2007). Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective. Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Energy resources

• IEA. (2017). World Energy Outlook.

Global climate governance

• Dimitrov, R. S. (2010). Inside UN Climate Change Negotiations: The Copenhagen Conference. Review of Policy Research, 27(6), 795-821.