BIOS 597 Human Ecology

Student Presentations

Spring 2004

 

Group & Names

Date

Article

 

 

Tragedy of the Commons

Group 1:      Michelle Mahar, John Couture, & Tara Gauthier.

 

15 January

 

Dietz, T., E. Ostrom & P.C. Stern. 2003. The struggle to govern the commons. Science 302: 1907-1912

Pretty, J. 2003. Social capital and the collective management of resources. Science 302: 1912-1914.

Adams, W.M., D. Broockington, J. Dyson & B. Vira. Managing tragedies: Understanding conflict over common pool resources. Science 302: 1915-1916

Rosengrant, M.W., & S.A. Cline. 2003. Global Food Security: Challenges and policies. Science 302: 1917-1919.

McMichael, A.J., C.D. Butler & C. Folke. 2003. New visions for addressing sustainability. Science 302: 1919-1920.

Group & Names

Date

Article

 

 

Tragedy of the Commons

Group 2:     Carolyn Hedke, Patience Schmuhl & Faith Medley.

 

22 January

 

Mascie-Taylor, C.G.N., & E. Karim. 2003. The burden of chronic disease. Science 302: 1921-1922

Hasselmann, K., M. Latif, G. Hooss, C. Azar, O. Edenhofer, C.C. Jaeger, O.M. Johannnessen, C. Kemfert, M. Welp & A. Wokaun. 2003. The challenge of log-term climate change. Science 302: 1923-1925.

Watson, R.T. 2003. Climate change: The political situation. Science 302: 1925-1926.

Houck, O. 2003.  Tales from a troubled marriage: Science and law in environmental policy. Science 302: 1926-1929


Group & Names

Date

Article

 

 

Population ecology Ð periods of change & resource control

Group 3:     Brett Burkey, Rachel Wittkowski & Craig Coffey.

29 January

 

Cohen, J.E. 1995. How many people can the Earth support? W.W. Norton & Co., New York.  Chapters 2 & 3, pages 25-45.

Group & Names

Date

Article

 

 

Population ecology Ð human population history

Group 4:     Jessica Juhnke, Elizabeth Michalec, Michael Rader & Wendi Warson.

29 January

 

 

 

Cohen, J.E. 1995. How many people can the Earth support? W.W. Norton & Co., New York.  Chapter 5, pages 76-96.

Group & Names

Date

Article

 

 

Population ecology Ð demographic transition

Group 5:     Josh Ernstes, Nicole Shaull & Ron Cloutier.

5 February

 

Cohen, J.E. 1995. How many people can the Earth support? W.W. Norton & Co., New York.  Chapter 4, pages 46-75.

Group & Names

Date

Article

 

 

Population ecology

Group 6:     Ken Szydlowski, Mary Burns & Jesse King.

5 February

 

Meadows, D.H., D.L. Meadows & J. Randers. 1992. Beyond the limits. Chelsea Green Publishing Co., White River Junction VT. 300 pp. (chapter 2, The driving force: Exponential growth. pp. 14-43).

Group & Names

Date

Article

 

 

Human niche

Group 7:     Aaron Young, Leah Glance & Fatimah Abdullah.

12 February

 

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. 1998. The demographic transition: are we any closer to an evolutionary explanation? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13(7): 266-270.

Group & Names

Date

Article

 

 

Human niche

Group 8:     Linnea Hruska, Stephanie Paul & Zak Peiffer.

12 February

 

Please explain the ÒStage 3 projectÓ as summarized in:

Palmer, D. 2004. Big chill killed off the Neanderthals. New Scientist 24 January 2004: 10-11.

See:

http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/oistage3/Details/Homepage.html

 

 

 

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