Human Capital
February 28, 2012


Assigned Readings

Green & Haines, Ch. 6, pp. 117-142 (Human Capital) and pp. 272-278 (Food Systems)
Wheeler & Beatley: Wheeler (104-112), Cervero, Newman & Kenworthy, Pucher et al. (115-136)

Additional Resources

Bedsworth, L.W. & Hanak, E. (2010) Adaptation to climate change. Journal of the American Planning Association 76(4), 477-495.

Cervero, R. & Sullivan, C. (2011) Green TODs: Marrying transit-oriented development and green urbanism. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology 18(3), 210-218.

Davidson, R., Mitchell, R. & Hunt, K. (2008). Location, location, location: The role of experience of disadvantage in lay perceptions of area inequalities in health. Health & Place 14(2), 167-181.

Dulal, H.B., Brodnig, G. & Onoriose, C.G. (2011) Climate change mitigation in the transport sector through urban planning: A review. Habitat International 35(3), 494-500.

Gans, H.J. (2008). Involuntary segregation and the ghetto: Disconnecting process and place. City & Community 7(4), 353-357.

Gardner, B. & Abraham, C. (2010) Going green? Modeling the impact of environmental concerns and perceptions of transportation alternativss on decisions to drive. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 40(4), 831-849.

Garvey, J. (2011) Climate change and causal inefficacy: Why go green when it makes no difference? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 69, 157-174.

Grasswick, H.E. (2008). From feminist thinking to ecological thinking: Determining the bounds of community. Hypatia 23(1), 150-160.

Knowles, K. & Espinosa, A. (2009). Towards a holistic framework for environmental change: The role of normative behaviour and networking to enhance sustainable business practices. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 22(4), 275-291.

Maton, K.I. (2008). Empowering community settings: Agents of individual development, community betterment, and positive social change. American Journal of Community Psychology 41(1-2), 4-21.

McDonald, R.I., Green, P., Balk, D., Fekete, B.M. et al. (2011) Urban growth, climate change and freshwater availability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(15), 6312-6317.

Nelson, D.R., Folhes, M.T. & Finan, T.J. (2009). Mapping the road to development: A methodology for scaling up participation in policy processes. Development in Practice 19(3), 386-395.

Oswald, M.R. & McNeill, S. (2010) Rating sustainability: Transportation investments in urban corridors as a case study. Journal of Urban Planning & Development 136(3), 177-185.

Polebitski, A.S., Palmer, R.N. & Waddell, P. (2011) Evaluating water demands under climate change and transitions in the urban environment. Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management 137(3), 249-257.

Praskievicz, S. & Chang, H. (2009) A review of hydrological modelling of basin-scale climate change and urban development impacts. Progress in Physical Geography 33(5), 650-671.

Rogers, D., Zabihian, F. & Fung, A. (2011) Green garage: A garage retrofit analysis to facilitate greater uptake of alternatively fueled vehicles. ASHRAE Transactions 117(2), 150-157.

Saunders, C. (2008). Double-edged swords? Collective identity and solidarity in the environmental movement. British Journal of Sociology 59(2), 227-253.

Schafft, K.A., Jensen, E.B., & Hinrichs, C.C. (2009). Food deserts and overweight schoolchildren: Evidence from Pennsylvania. Rural Sociology 74(2), 153-177.

Schulz, A.J., Zenk, S.N., Israel, B.A. et al. (2008). Do neighborhood characteristics, racial composition and residential stability predict perceptions of stress associated with the physical and social environment? Findings from a multilevel analysis in Detroit. Journal of Urban Health 85(5), 642-661.

Sharp, J.S. & Clark, J.K. (2008). Between the country and the concrete: Rediscovering the rural-urban fringe. City & Community 7(1), 61-79.

Stone, B., Hess, J.J. & Frumkin, H. (2010) Urban form and extreme heat events: Are sprawling cities more vulnerable to climate change than compact cities? Environmental Health 118(10), 1425-1428.

Tsai, C. & Chang, A.S. (2012) Framework for developing construction sustainability items: The example of highway design. Journal of Cleaner Production 20(1), 127-136.

Tiwari, R., Cervero, R. & Schipper, L. (2011) Driving CO2 reduction by integrating transport and urban design strategies. Cities 28(5), 394-405.

Wyly, E., Moos, M., Hammel, D. & Kabahizi, E. (2009). Cartographies of race and class: Mapping the class-monopoly rents of American subprime mortgage capital. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research 33(2), 332-354.

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