STS216 Notes

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STS216 – ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICS CONTENTS Week 1 – 24 July 2017 4 Lecture 4 STS and Environmental Issues 4 Week 2 – 31 July 2017 8 Lecture 8 Industrialization and Limits to Growth 8 Week 3 – 7 August 2017 12 Lecture 12 Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Development 12 Readings 15 A Comparison of the Limits to Growth with 30 years of Reality – Graham M. TUrner 15 Growth Forever: The Promethean Response – John S. Dryzek 17 Questions 17 Week 4 – 14 August 2017 19 Lecture 19 Equity and Globalisation 19 Readings 24 Science, Citizens and Environmental Threat – Alan Irwin 24 Questions 27 Week 5 – 21 August 2017 30 Lecture 30 Scientific Controversies and the Precautionary Principle 30 Readings 34 The Precautionary Pricniple – Sharon Beder 34 Questions 39 Week 6 – 28 August 2017 41 Lecture 41 The Australian Coal industry 41 Readings 51 Why Australia Must Stop Exporting Coal – Peter Christoff 51 Stranded assets, externalities and carbon risk in the Australian coal industry: The case for contraction in a carbon-constrained world – Adam Lucas 52 Questions 53 Week 7 – 4 September 2017 55 Lecture 55 Nuclear Energy: A Panacea for Climate Change? 55 Readings 61 Nuclear Energy: A Panacea for Climate Change? – Adam Lucas 61 Nuclear Power is not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else – Helen Caldicott 61 Questions 61 Week 8 – 11 September 2017 63 Lecture 63 Peaking of World Oil Production 63 Readings 70 Global Oil Depletion: A Review of the Evidence – steve Sorrell et al 70 Eco-localisation as a progressive response to peak oil and climate change - a sympathetic critique – Peter North 72 Week 9 – 11 September 2017 75 Lecture 75 Risk and Uncertainty 75 Readings 77 The Risk Society Thesis – Alan Irwin 77 Living in the World Risk Society – Ulrich Beck 78 Questions 78 Week 10 – 4 October 2017 80 Lecture 80 Genetically MoDified Organisms 80 Readings 84 Providing Thoughtful Feedback: public participation in the regulation of Australia’s first genetically modified food crop – Kerry Ross 84 Questions 84 Week 11 – 9 October 2017 87 Lecture 87 Risk, Expertise, and Lay Knowledge 87 Readings 89 “GMO Regulation and Civic Participation at The ‘Edge of The World’: The Case of Australia and New Zealand - Richard Hindmarsh and Rosemary Du Plessis 89 Questions 90