2004-05 Oil and Water Syllabus

Thursday, September 9
Introduction to EPIIC’s collaborations with the Tufts University-wide program

“Water: Systems, Science and Society” and with Earthwatch
followed by the opening reception for Evidence: The Case Against Milosevic at the Tufts Art Gallery, part of EPIIC’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

Tuesday, September 14
UNOCAL and Afghanistan: A Case Study in Oil  and US Foreign Policy

Guest Lecturer: Steve Coll

Steve Coll is a pulitzer prize-winning journalist and managing editor and former South Asian (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) correspondent for the Washington Post. He is the author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, The Taking of Getty Oil: The Full Story of the Most Spectacular--& Catastrophic--Takeover of All Time, Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Account of the Sec's Battle With Wall Street (with David A. Vise) and The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T.

Reading:
Handout

• Ghost Wars by Steve Coll, pp. 299-367 and 397-415

Thursday, September 16
No Class -- Rosh Hashanah

Tuesday, September 21 >>top
Out of Gas

Guest Lecturer: David Goodstein

He is the Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Caltech, where he has been on the faculty for more than 35 years. In 1995, he was named the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor.  In 1999, Dr. Goodstein was awarded the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and in 2000, the John P. McGovern Medal of the Sigma Xi Society. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the California Council on Science and Technology. His books include States of Matter and Feynman’s Lost Lecture, written with his wife, Dr. Judith Goodstein. In the 1980s he was Director and host of “The Mechanical Universe”, an educational television series that has been used by millions of students all over the world.  In recent times, while continuing to teach and conduct research in experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Dr. Goodstein has turned his attention to issues related to science and society. In articles, speeches and colloquia he has addressed conduct and misconduct in science, the end of exponential growth of the scientific enterprise, and issues related to fossil fuel and the climate of Planet Earth. Hi smost recent book is Out of Gas.

Reading:
Book

• Out of Gas by David Goodstein, all

Thursday, September 23 >>top
Is There a Fossil Fuel Crisis?

Guest Lecturer: Bruce Everett

Bruce McKenzie Everett is an Adjunct Associate Professor of International Business at Tufts University. His recent publications include ExxonMobil op-ed series in the New York Times and the Washington Post: “Hydrogen: Promise and Challenge,”  (May 2, 2002); “New Vehicles, Your Choice,” (December 6, 2001); “Leading Innovations in  Transportation,” (November 23, 2001); “Advanced Gas-to-Liquids Conversion Technology for Natural Gas  Development,” (co-author) World Conference on Refining Technology and Reformulated Fuels (1997 - San  Antonio).

Readings:
Books

• Energy at the Crossroads by Vaclav Smil, all
• The Prize by Daniel Yergin, pp. 1-150

Tuesday, September 28
First Exam

Thursday, September 30 >>top
Fossil Cities in a Carbon Culture
Cosponsored by the Tufts Institute for the Environment

Guest Lecturer: Peter Droege
Institute for Global Leadership Practitioner in Residence

Asia-Pacific Chair, World Council for Renewable Energy; Director, Solar City, International Energy Agency; Adviser, Beijing Municipal Institute for City Planning and Design; Leader, United Nations Development Programme missions in Africa and the Middle East; Editor, Intelligent Environments: IT, Telecommunications and Urban Form; Professor, Urban Design Program, Sydney University

Reading:
Handouts

• “Renewable Energy and the City”
• “Sustainability, Porverty and Urban Environmental Transitions” by G. McGranhan et al.
• “Introduction” from Sustainable Cities by D. Satterthwaite (ed.)

Friday-Sunday, October 1-3, 2004 >>top
Weekend Immersion
Outward Bound

Drought or Drowning? Fresh Water in a Climate-Altered World

Guest Lecturer: William R. Moomaw

Professor of International Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Senior Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment; Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute; Convening Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Co-editor, Transboundary Environmental Negotiation and People and Their Planet: Searching for Balance

with

Peter Droege

Institute for Global Leadership Practitioner-in-Residence

Readings:
Books

• Water: The Fate of outr Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers, ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 16
• Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva, ch. 1,2

Handouts

• “The Bounding Main” from Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell by Boyce Resberger, 1996
• “The World's Water Crisis”, “Milestones”, and “The Natural Water Cycle” from Water for People, Water for Life, the United Nations World Water Development Report, 2003
• “Overview and Executive Summary” and “Introduction and Development Context” from “Water Resources Sector Strategy: Strategic Directions for World Bank Engagement, The World Bank, 2004
• “Where Have All the Rivers Gone?” from Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature by Sandra Postel and Brian Richter, 2003
• “Entering an Era of Water Scarcity: The Challenges Ahead” by Sandra Postel, Ecological Applications, 10(4) 2000
• “Growing more Food with Less Water” by Sandra Postel, Scientific American, February 2001
• “Boosting Water Productivity” by Sandra Postel and Amy Vickers, from State of the World 2004: Special Focus: The Consumer Society, The Worldwatch Institute
• “Dehydrating Conflict” by Sandra Postel and Aaron Wolf, Foreign Policy, September 2001
• “Hydro Dynamics: Forget Oil, Sharing Freshwater Equitably Poses Political Conundrums as Explosive and Far-Reaching as Global Climate Change” by Sandra Postel, Natural History, May 2003
• “The Big Thaw” by Daniel Glick, National Geographic, September 2004
• “Behavior of World’s Glaciers Fails to Prove Global Warming Theory” by John Carlisle, National Policy Analysis, February 1999

On-Line

• “Sandra Postel: the Coming Age of Water Scarcity – Interview” by Jim Motavalli, E: The Environmental Magazine, September-October 1998
  (www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1594/is_n5_v9/ai_21136407/print)
• “Implications for Public Policy” from Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity by Sandra Postel, 1997 (www.unesco.org.uy/phi/libros/efficient_water/wcap5.html)
• “Dividing Waters” by Sandra Postel (http://www.agr.feis.unesp.br/water.htm)
• “Climate Change Impacts: the Global Glacier Decline”, World Wildlife Foundation Press Release (www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/problems/impacts_glaciers.cfm)
• “Melting Glaciers Spell Water Crisis” by Paul Brown, The Guardian, September 4, 2003 (www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4746577-110970,00.html)
• “Everest Melting? High Signs of Climate Change” by Stentor Danielson, National Geographic News, June 5, 2002 (news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0605_020604_everestclimate.html)
• “Billions Likely to Suffer Water Shortages from Melting Glaciers”, World Wildlife Foundation Press Release, November 27, 2003
  (www.wwf.fi/tulostettava_versio/kvtiedotteet/billions_likely.html)
• “How Melting Glaciers Move: Cracking the Mystery” by Sharon Guynup, National Geographic Channel, July 30, 2004 (news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0730_040730_tv_glaciers.html#main)
• “Global Warming and National Security” by William Moomaw, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, 2001 (www.nesea.org/publications/NESun/security.html)
• “Mercury Messenger Brings Word from Europe on Global Warming Planning” by William Moomaw, The WorldPaper,  January 2004
  (www.worldpaper.com/2003/jan04/nrg1.html)

Tuesday, October 5 >>top
Life Support in Crisis: Battle of Interests and Paradigms
Cosponsored by the Tufts Institute for the Environment

Guest Lecturer: Peter Droege

Institute for Global Leadership Practitioner in Residence

Reading

• "Local Agenda 21: Practical Experiences and Emerging Issues from the South” by Pratibha Mehta, Environmental Impact Assessment Review (16)
• “Sustainability: Reform or Transformation?” by WM Rees, WM, in Sustainable Cities, D. Satterthwaite (ed.), Earthscan, London
• “Urban ecology footprints: why cities cannot be sustainable - and why they a key to sustainablility” by W Rees and M. Wackernagel, Environmental Impact Assessment Review (16)
• Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use: The New Report to the Club of Rome by E. U. Weizsaecker and A. B. Lovins, et al., Earthscan, pp. 213-231 and 256-267
• “The Oil We Eat” by Richard Manning
• “The Last Americans” by Jared Diamond

Thursday, October 7
Earthwatch Presentation

Tuesday, October 12
No Class -- Monday’s Schedule

Thursday 14 October 2004 >>top
The Nexus of Non-Renewable Energy Use and Fresh Water Depletion
Cosponsored by the Tufts Institute for the Environment

Guest Lecturer: Peter Droege

Institute for Global Leadership Practitioner in Residence

Reading:
Book

• Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update by D. Meadows et al., 2004 Earthscan Publications, all

Handouts

• "Sharing waters: Post-Rio international water management" by M.A. Giordano and A. T. Wolf, Natural Resources Forum 27
• "Water and Energy" by Peter Gleick, Annual Review of Energy and Environment 19 Harte, J. and El-Gasseir (1978). "Energy and Water." Science 199: 623-633.
• "Water, Energy and Environment Nexus: The California Experience" by D. M. Lofman et al, International Journal of Water Resources Development 18(1).
• "Water-Energy Nexus in Resource-poor Economies: The Indian Experience", by R. Malik, International Journal of Water Resources Development 18(1)
• “Water and Civilization: Using History To Reframe Water Policy Debates and To Build a New Ecological Realism” by Jerome Delli Priscoli, Water Policy 1 (1998)
• "Energy and Water - The Ignored Link" by O. Uexküll, ReFocus, March/April 2004

Tuesday 19 October 2004 >>top
Trading Out of Debt? Global Warming and the Carbon Bazaar and End of the Bonanza: Past and Approaching Oil and Natural Gas Peaks
Cosponsored by the Tufts Institute for the Environment

Guest Lecturer: Peter Droege

Institute for Global Leadership Practitioner in Residence

Reading:
Handouts

• "Greenhouse Justice: Moving Beyond Kyoto" by J. Byrne et al., Position paper prepared for the Eighth Session of the Conference of Parties (COP-8) to negotiate implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2002
• “Climate Shopping: Putting the Atmosphere Up for Sale” by J. Byrne and Leigh Glover, TELA: Environment, Economy and Society Series: 28, 2000
• “An Equity- and Sustainability-based Policy Response to Global Climate Change” by J. Byrne et al., Energy Policy, March 1998
• “Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options” by David G. Victor, Council on Foreign Relations
• “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security” by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall

Thursday  21 October 2004 >>top
The Fall of the Fossil City and the Rise of the Solar Habitat
Cosponsored by the Tufts Institute for the Environment

Guest Lecturer: Peter Droege

Institute for Global Leadership Practitioner in Residence

Reading
Book

The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future by Hermann Scheer, Earthscan, 2002

Handouts

• “Ecosystem services in urban areas” by P. Bolund and S. Hunhammar, Ecological Economics 29, 1999
• “Sustainable Cities: A Contradiction in Terms?” by Herbert Girardet from Sustainable Cities, D. Satterthwaite (ed.), Earthscan
• “The Potentials of Renewable Energy” by Thomas Johansson, Thematic Background Paper, International Conference for Renewable Energies, Bonn 2004
• “Four Ecosystem Principles for an Industrial Ecosystem” by J. Korhonen, J., Journal of Cleaner Production 9(3), 2001
• “Millennium Ecosystem Assessment” by McGranahan and Peter Marcotullio, 2004
• “Dimensions of the Eco-City” by Mark Roseland, Cities 14(4), 1997
• Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use: The New Report to the Club of Rome by
• E.U. Weizsaecker and A. B. Lovins, et al., Earthscan, 1997, pp. 4-10, 68-69, 82-84, 88-89, 130-132

Tuesday, October 26 >>top
Security and Sustainability in the Middle East

Guest Lecturer: Nazli Choucri

Nazli Choucri is associate director of TDP and a professor of political science. She also heads the Middle East Program, an interdepartmental program of graduate study on technology, development, and policy. She is the author of International Energy Futures: Petroleum Prices, Power, and Payments  and International Politics of Energy Interdependence.  Prof. Choucri's expertise is interdisciplinary analysis of international political and economic dynamics, with an emphasis on the potential for conflict at national, regional, and global levels. Her work focuses on political risks related to energy policy and technological investments. She has worked on problems related to the world oil market, energy and development, and technology transfer.

Reading
Handouts

• “Dimensions of National Security: The Case of Egypt” by Nazli Choucri, Janet Welsh Brown, and Peter M. Haas
• “Technology and Development Implications for the Middle East” by Nazli Choucri
• “The Middle East in Global Change: The Politics and Economics of Interdependence versus Fragmentation” by Laura Guazzone
• “Knowledge Networking: Leapfrogging for Technology” by Nazli Choucri

Thursday, October 28 >>top
Resource Wars

Guest Lecturer: Michael Klare

Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and Director of the Five Colleges Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS). Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1977-84).  Michael Klare is the author of Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws, Low Intensity Warfare, Resource Wars, and Blood and Oil.

Reading:
Books

• Resource Wars, Michael Klare
• Blood and Oil, Michael Klare

Tuesday, November 2 >>top
Law of the Sea

Guest Lecturer: Alfred Rubin

Alfred Rubin is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Law at The Fletcher School of Tufts University. His publications include The Law of Piracy, Ethics and Authority in International Law, and The International Personality of the Malay Peninsula. Prof. Rubin is the Chairman of Executive Committee of the International Law Association (American Branch).

Handouts

• The Law of Piracy by Alfred P. Rubin, ch. 5 and 6

Inquiry Reader

• “Ocean one-pagers: Do We Know Enough of Oceans?” p. 257
• “Rescuing the Law of the Sea” p. 282
• “The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (A Historical Perspective)” p. 456

Thursday, November 4 >>top
Climate Change and the Fate of the Oceans

Guest Lecturer: William R. Moomaw

Bill Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Senior Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment; Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute; Convening Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Co-editor, Transboundary Environmental Negotiation and People and Their Planet: Searching for Balance

Book

• The Oceanic Circle by Elisabeth Mann Borgese

Handout

• Oceans 2020: Science, Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability by John G. Field et al, chapter 4

Inquiry Reader

• “Water on the Move” p. 262
• “Water on the Move: Current Events” p. 263
• “The Living Sea” p. 265
• “Exploring the Oceans” p.  267
• “What Future for the Oceans” p. 268
• “Ocean Rescue” p. 283
• “Saving the Oceans” p. 284
• “Urban Interface: Human Fingerprints  All Over…” p. 295
• “Key dimensions of human-ocean interaction” p. 300
• “The promise of a blue revolution” p. 302
• “Climate Change” p. 317
• “Ocean one-pagers: Do We Know Enough of Oceans? How the oceans influence climate” p. 319
• “Ocean one-pages: Do we know enough of the Oceans? Oceans and the carbon cycle” p. 322
• “Ocean Floor Reveals Clues to Global Warming” p. 324
• “Carbon Dioxide In the World’s Oceans Is a Huge Threat” p. 326
• “Antarctic Glaciers Quicken Pace to Sea; Warming is Cited” p. 327
• “Ocean Forces Threaten Our Climate” p. 329
• “Pink coral into grey rubble” p. 333

Tuesday, November 9 >>top
The History of Oceans and Human Interaction

Guest Lecturer: John Perry

John Perry is the Henry Willard Denison Professor at The Fletcher School and the Director of Fletcher’s new Oceanic Studies Program.  His current research interests include international oceanic history, including how and to what effect humankind is currently using the oceans, and American-East Asian relations. He is the past Director of Fletcher’s North Pacific Program.  His publications include The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga and Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific.

Reading:
Handout

• Excerpts from Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Inquiry Reader

• “A new way to feed the world” p. 308
• “A fisherman’s Tale” p. 311
• “Fools Gold” p. 425
• “Oil and Water” p. 436
• “A Rising Tide” p. 446
• “Into deeper Water” p. 447
• “Squeezing water from the sea” p. 453

Thursday, November 11
In-Class Mid Term Exam

Tuesday, November 16
The Outlaw Sea

Book

• The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos and Crime by William Langewiesche

Inquiry Reader

• “Piracy takes higher toll of seamen’s lives” p. 334
• “Piracy and armed robbery 1 January – 31 December 2003” p. 336
• “Trends in maritime terrorism” p. 404
• “No Link Between Piracy and Terrorism” p. 406
• “Perils on the sea” p. 408
• “Fighting Maritime Terrorism” p. 411
• “Bobbing bytes” p. 414
• “When Trade and Security Clash” p. 417
• “As world’s ships arrive in port, new security for smooth sailing” p. 422

Thursday, November 18 >>top
Transboundary Water Conflicts

Guest Lecturer: Peter Rogers

Prof. Rogers is the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership and the recipient of Guggenheim and Twentieth Century Fellowships. His recent books include America's Water: Federal Roles and Responsibilities, Water in the Arab World: Perspects and Prognoses, and Measuring Environmental Quality in Asia

Readings:
Books

• Transboundary Fresh Water Dispute Resolution by Heather L. Beach et al., pp. 1-131
• Hydropolitics in the Third World by Arun Elhance (you will need to have this whole book read for the final exam but for Thursday you have been assigned one of the case studies)

Handouts

• "Conflict Resolution in Water Resources Management: Ronald Coase Meets Vilfredo Pareto" by Peter Rogers and Imad Kordab
• International River Basins: Pervasive Unidirectional Externalities" by Peter Rogers

Tuesday, November 23 >>top
Water, Human Security and Development

Guest Lecturer: Adil Najam

Adil Najam is Associate Professor of International Negotiation and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School. His recent publications include Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia (editor) and Civic Entrepreneurship: Civil Society Perspectives on Sustainable Development (co-author: Volume 1, co-editor Volumes 2-7). His articles include “The Case Against a New International Environmental Organization,” Global Governance;  “Climate Negotiations Beyond Kyoto: Developing Country Concerns and Interests,” Climate Policy; “International Environmental Negotiation: A Strategy for the South,” Transboundary Environmental Negotiation; “From Rio to Johannesburg: Progress and Prospects,” Environment; and “Financing Sustainable Development: Crises of Legitimacy,” Progress in Development Studies.

Readings
Books

• The Water Barons from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, whole book
• Water Wars by Vandana Shiva, chapter 4 (also in the Inquiry Reader, p 202)
• Water by Marq de Villiers, chapter 15 (also in the Inquiry Reader, p 236)

Handouts (in the readings cabinet)

• "The Human Dimensions of Environmental Security: Some Insights from South Asia" by Adil Najam from Environmental Change and Security Project Report No. 9 (2003)
• "Environmental Cooperation in South Asia" by Ashok Swain from Environmental Peacemaking
• "Water Conflicts in South Asia: Managing Water Resource Disputes within and between Countries of the Region" by Toufiq A. Siddiqi and Shirin Tahir-Kheli (project coordinators and editors), Project implemented by Global Environment and Energy in the 21st Century and SAIS

Inquiry Reader

• “Globalization and International Trade of Water” p. 167
• “Rivers Run Black, and Chinese Die of Cancer” p. 242
• “Sub-Saharan Africa Lags in Water Clean Up” p. 251
• “When There Is No Clean Water” p. 255

Thursday, November 25
No Class -- Thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 30 >>top
Resource Wars and Environmental Refugees: The Iraqi Marshlands

Guest Lecturer: Stuart Liederman

Stuart Leiderman directs the Environmental Refugees and Ecological Restoration program at the University of New Hamsphire, where he is a PhD candidate in environmental studies.  A lifelong independent scholar, educator, research consultant and activist, his initiatives have included Environmental Response;  "Free Rivers, Free People" campaign; founding the New Life Farm, Missouri Ozarks; and Living Space for Environmental Refugees.  In recent years, his professional scientific work has concerned the plight of environmental refugees and the urgency for the ecological restoration of damaged homelands.  Project emphasis has been on Haiti, southern Iraq, Black Mesa Arizona, Ukraine and other environmentally-endangered regions of the world.  He co-authored the "Toledo Initiative," an international declaration that recognizes the existence of environmental refugees and calls for the ecological restoration of damaged homelands. He created and now teaches an online course at the University of Vermont on the ecological restoration of southern Iraq.

Reading
Handouts

• "Restoring the Marshlands of Southern Iraq" (brochure)
• Oil and Water in Iraq Reading Packet, pp. 31-72
• "Integrated Water Resources Management in the New Iraq"
• "A History of Oil in Iraq"
• "The Plight of the Moroccan Southeastern Oases"

Thursday, December 2 >>top
GIS and the Oceans

Guest Lecturer: Joe Breman

Joe Breman is a software analyst at ESRI, the marine and coastal community manager responsible for the ESRI marine web site, and editor of the marine newsletter, The Wave. He serves as vice president of the board of directors for the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) and is the editor of Marine Geography: GIS for the Oceans and Seas.

Reading
Handouts

• “The Inception of the ArcGIS Marine Data Model” from Marine Geography: GIS for the Oceans and Seas by Joe Breman
• "Opportunity, Willingness, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Reconceptualizing Borders in International Relations" by H. Starr from Political Geography
• "GIS as a Tool for Territorial Negotiations" by William B. Wood from IBRU Boundary and Security Bulletin, Autumn 2000
• "Using Geographic Information Systems to Revisit Enduring Rivalries: The Case of Israel" by Harry Starr  from Geopolitics, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Summer 2000)

Tuesday, December 7 >>top
The “Resource Curse” and Development

Guest Lecturer: David Dapice

David Dapice is an Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University and a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Institute of International Development.  He has specialized in development economics, especially in Southeast Asia. He has taken leave at the World Bank (as a Brookings Policy Fellow), the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harvard Institute for International Development. His recent professional activities have centered on researching on and assisting with the economic reforms in Vietnam. He is a member of the Fulbright selection committee for scholars from Vietnam.

Reading
Handouts

• “An Alternative Interpretation of the ‘Resource Curse’: Theory and Policy Implications” by Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto Rigobon, Working Paper 9424, NBER Working Paper Series, December 2002
• “Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth” by Jeffrey D Sachs and Andrew M. Warner, November 1997
• “Mineral Resources and Economic Development” by Gavin Wright and Jesse Czelusta, October 2003
• “Exorcising the Resource Curse: Minerals as a Knowledge Industry, Past and Present” by Gavin Wright and Jesse Czelusta, July 2002
• Paradox of Plenty by Terry Lynn Karl, parts 1 and 3
• God, Oil and Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan from the International Crisis Group, ch. 4
• Making a Killing: The Business of War, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Center for Public Integrity, ch. 5
• The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance, by Karen Ballentine and Jake Sherman (eds.), excerpts on oil
• “Saving Iraq From Its Oil” by Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian,  Foreign Affairs, July/August 2004
• Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Options and Actions by Ian Bannon and Paul Collier (eds.), ch. 2 and 7

Thursday, December 9 >>top

Guest Lecturer: Susan Murcott

Susan Murcott is a Lecturer, Research Engineer, and Principal Investigator in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT.  She is also the president of Ecosystems Engineering, a consulting company that specializes in drinking water and municipal and industrial wastewater projects with emphasis on the use of sustainable, innovative and cost-effective technologies.  She was the Chairperson of the US team for the Japan-US Sustainable Society Project and a consultant to Pechtel/Parsons Brinkerhoff on the Big Dig, recommending clean up options for run-off and industrial wastewater.  She also was a consultant to MettaDana, a US based humanitarian aid project working in North Burma on water quality, public health and education, and the project manager of bench and full-scale chemical coagulent studies for the Gao Bei Dian Sewage Treatment Plant in Beijing.

Tuesday, December 21
In Class Final Exam, 9:00am

Wednesday, December 22
All Final Research Papers and Final Take-Home Exams Due by 5:00pm