Assigned Readings

Green & Haines Energy pp. 279-282
Wheeler & Beatley: Girardet, Lyle, Pacala & Socolow (pp. 157-180)

Additional Resources

Cidell, J. (2009) A political ecology of the built environment: LEED certification for green buildings Local Environment 14(7), 621-633.

Colding, J., Lundberg, J. & Folke, C. (2006) Incorporating green-area user groups in urban ecosystem management. Ambio 35(5), 237-244.

Fobil, J.N., Armah, N.A. & Hogarh, J.N. (2008) The influence of institutions and organizations on urban waste collection systems: An analysis of waste collection system in Accra, Ghana (1985-2000). Journal of environmental Management 86(1), 262-271.

Hall, M.H.P. (2011) A preliminary assessment of socio-ecological metabolism for three neighborhoods within a rust belt urban ecosystem. Ecological Modelling 223(1), 20-31.

Hanna, S., Marciotto, E., & Britter, R. (2011) Urban energy fluxes in built-up downtown areas and variations across the urban area, for us in dispersion models. Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology 50(6), 1341-1353.

Head, L. & Muir, P. (2006) Edges of connection: reconceptualising the human role in urban biogeography. Australian Geographer 37(1), 87-101.

Holifield, R. (2009) Actor-network theory as a critical approach to environmental justice: A case against synthesis with urban political ecology. Antipode 41(4), 637-658.

Judkins, G., Smith, M. & Keys, E. (2008) Determinism within human-environmental research and the rediscovery of environmental causation. The Geographic Journal 174(1), 17-29.

Kitzes, J., Wackernagel, M. Loh, J., Peller, A. et al. (2008) Shrink and share: humanity's present and future ecological footprint. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363 (1491), 467-475.

Neo, H. (2010) The potential of large-scale urban waste recycling: A case study of the national recycling programme in Singapore. Society & Natural Resources 23(9), 872-887.

O'Bnen, W.T., Kennedy, C.A., Athienitis, A.K. & Kesik, T.J. (2010) The relationship between net energy use and the urban density of solar buildings. Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design. 37(6), 1002-1021.

Perez-Lombard, L., Ortiz, J. & Pout, C. (2008). A review on buildings energy consumption information. Energy & Buildings 40(3), 394-398.

Pincetl, S. (2007) The political ecology of green spaces in the city and linkages to the countryside. Local Environment 12(2), 87-92.

Rojas-Valencia, M.N., Velasquez, M.T. Orta de & Franco, V. (2011) Urban agriculture, using sustainable practices that involve the reuse of wastewater and solid waste. Agricultural Water Management 98(9), 1388-1394.

Stone, B., Jr., Mednick, A.C., Holloway, T. & Spak, S.N. (2007). Is compact growth good for air quality? Journal of the American Planning Association 73(4), 404-418.

Stromann-Andersen, J. & Sattrup, P.A. The urban canyon and building energy use: Urban density versus daylight and passive solar gains. Energy & Buildings 43(8), 2011-2020.

Zhao, M., Kong, Z., Escobedo, F.J. & Gao, J. (2010) Impacts of urban forests on offsetting carbon emissions from industrial energy use in Hangzhou, China. Journal of Environmental Management 91(4), 807-813.

Zimmerer, K.S. (2006) Cultural ecology: At the interface with political ecology -- the new geographies of environmental conservation and globalization. Progress in Human Geography 30(1), 63-78.

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