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Required Readings Globalization & Sustainability Technology
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Class Preparation for Jan. 25 - Unless otherwise instructed always post a copy of your class preparation materials to the weekly discussion board The processes of urbanization, population growth, technological development, and globalization are connected in complex ways. Last week we examined population growth and urbanization. Your objective last week was to identify passages (ideas) that caught your attention and think about their importance and relevance to your own expertise, experience and interest. This week we examine the relationships between technological developments and globalization and sustainability, but we want to go beyond that and examine the relationships between all four of these very important, driving processes. Therefore your preparation for this week has two components. First, complete the same procedures that you used last week for the required readings and post your materials to the weekly discussion board. After you complete the analyses of the Kissinger & Rees and the Janeiro & Patel articles, examine your comments about all four articles that we have read during the past two weeks (Coole, Cumming, Kissinger & Rees, Janeiro & Patel). You are going to create a synthesis of related concepts you have gleaned from these readings, using the steps described below. Step 1. Identify recurrent ideas or concepts (themes) that appear in all or most of the articles. Themes are abstract concepts or ideas that serve as organizing principles to group what may seem like disparate concepts into groups of related ideas. Theses are the statements of conclusions derived from empirical evidence about the nature of some phenomenon or system. Scientific theses are based on the results of scientific research. Individual studies produce results. As results accumulate, scientists draw broader conclusions, which are statements about the relationships between phenomena based on several studies. Scientists often arrive at differing conclusions that generate alternative explanations of the phenomena under consideration. These often develop into competing explanations, which is a healthy process in science. Taken together the accumulated explanations constitute a body of knowledge about the phenomena of interest. Step 2. Group all of the related theses in the articles under an appropriate theme. You are not trying to find agreement among the authors. You just want to figure out how the theses can be organized under a few key themes. Make a table similar to the one below. There should be one table for each of the themes. I think you should be able to identify at least 6 or 8 themes, maybe more. Some theses may stand alone, in which case for this exercise you can simply put them in a "miscellaneous" group in the table. Try to keep the number of "ungrouped" theses small. I give an example of one theme in a table below.
Step 3. Identify two of the themes in your table that are of special interest to you or seem to you that they would generate particularly insightful discussion. Prepare to lead a 10-15 minute discussion of your themes in a small group of 3-4 people that I select. This is a DISCUSSION -- not a presentation by you. You may need to provide some background information, but this should be very brief -- 5 minutes at the most. Your objective is to lead your colleagues through a thoughtful consideration of two ideas that you pose. Get THEM involved. You are the "guide on the side" for the discussion -- not the "star on the stage." Providing one or two minutes of background and then posing questions for discussion is one way to do this. |
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Class Preparation for January 27 Select one article from the list for each of the two topical areas we will discuss this week. These are the lists of Additional Resources provided below. Coordinate on your team so that no two people select the same article. Prepare an analytic annotation of each article using the same steps described above. Post your annotations to the weekly discussion board before class on Jan. 27. You will have time in class to discuss the annoations completed by your group and organize the material. You will use these annotations for Assignment 1, the argumentative analysis. My intent is that you will be able to complete all or at least a great deal of the group work for each assignment during the Thursday class meetings. |
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Additional Resources - Technology Aggarwal, R. (2011) Developing a global mindset: Integrating demographics, sustainability, technology and globalization. Journal of Teaching in International Business 22:51-69. doi:10.1080/08975930.2011.585920 Attia, P. (2013). Mega-sized concerns from the nano-sized world: The intersection of nano- and environmental ethics. Science & Engineering Ethics, 19(3), 1007-1016. doi:10.1007/s11948-012-9422-3 Baldino, D., & Goold, J. (2014). Iran and the emergence of information and communications technology: The evolution of revolution? Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68(1), 17-35. doi:10.1080/10357718.2013.840263 Bates, Samuel and Saint-Pierre, Patrick. (2018) Adaptive policy framework through the lens of the viability theory: A theoretical contribution to sustainability in the Anthropocene Era. Ecological Economics 145:244-262. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.09.007. Brandoni, C., Arteconi, A., Ciriachi, G., & Polonara, F. (2014). Assessing the impact of micro-generation technologies on local sustainability. Energy Conversion & Management, 87, 1281-1290. doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2014.04.070 Caldeira, K., Bala, G., & Cao, L. (2013). The science of geoengineering. Annual Review of Earth & Planetary Sciences, 41, 231-236. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105548 Chen, D., Heyer, S., Ibbotson, S., Salonitis, K., Steingrímsson, J. G., & Thiede, S. (2015). Direct digital manufacturing: Definition, evolution, and sustainability implications. Journal of Cleaner Production, 107, 615-625. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.05.009 Dasgupta, N., Ranjan, S., Mundekkad, D., Ramalingam, C., Shanker, R., & Kumar, A. (2015). Nanotechnology in agro-food: From field to plate. Food Research International, 69, 381-400. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2015.01.005 Dow, G. K., & Reed, C. G. (2015). The origins of sedentism: Climate, population, and technology. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 119, 56-71. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.07.007 Gao, S. & Ding, X. (2019) Environment, technology and sustainability: The development and management of well-irrigation in Guanzhong Plain in Qing China. Miscellanea Geographica (Regional Studies on Development). 23(3):131-136. DOI: 10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0003 Gavrilescu, M., Demnerová, K., Aamand, J., Agathos, S., & Fava, F. (2015). Emerging pollutants in the environment: Present and future challenges in biomonitoring, ecological risks and bioremediation. New Biotechnology, 32(1), 147-156. doi:10.1016/j.nbt.2014.01.001 Gonella, F., Almeida, C.M.V.B., Fioientino, G., Handayani, K. et al. (2019) Is technology optimism justified? A discussio towards a comprehensive narrative. Journal of Cleaner Production. 223:456-465. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.126 Gould, T. H. P. (2015). A voice of one, a society of one: Community sustainability in the new media age of individualism. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 46(3), 251-264. doi:10.3138/jsp.46.3.03 Gupta, N., Fischer, A., & Frewer, L. (2015). Ethics, risk and benefits associated with different applications of nanotechnology: A comparison of expert and consumer perceptions of drivers of societal acceptance. Nanoethics, 9(2), 93-108. doi:10.1007/s11569-015-0222-5 Hicks, Daniel J. (2017) Genetically modified crops, inclusion and democracy. Perspectives on Science 25(4), 488-520. DOI: 10.1162/POSC_a_00251. Janeiro, L., & Patel, M. K. (2015). Choosing sustainable technologies. implications of the underlying sustainability paradigm in the decision-making process. Journal of Cleaner Production, 105, 438-446. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.029 Liu, J., Hull, V., Batistella, M., DeFries, R., Dietz, T., Fu, F., et al. (2013). Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. Ecology & Society, 18(2), 595-613. doi:10.5751/ES-05873-180226 Mauerhofer, V. (2019) Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development: Transforming the industrial state. Ecological Economics 165:106419) DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106419 Ming, T., de_Richter, R., Liu, W., & Caillol, S. (2014). Fighting global warming by climate engineering: Is the earth radiation management and the solar radiation management any option for fighting climate change? Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 31(0), 792-834. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2013.12.032 Mishra, J., Dutta, V. & Kumar Arora, N. (2020) Biopesticides in India: Technology and sustainability linkages. 3 Biotech 10(5):210. doi: 10.1007/s13205-020-02192-7 Nicholson, Peter. (2016) Canada's low-innovation equilibrium: Why it has been sustained and how it will be disrupted. Canadian Public Policy 42(2016 Supplement):S39-S45 DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2015-019. Norton-Brandão, D., Scherrenberg, S. M., & van Lier, J. B. (2013). Reclamation of used urban waters for irrigation purposes - A review of treatment technologies. Journal of Environmental Management, 122(0), 85-98. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.012 Ostergard Jr, R. L., Tubin, M., & Altman, J. (2001). Stealing from the past: Globalisation, strategic formation and the use of indigenous intellectual property in the biotechnology industry. Third World Quarterly, 22(4), 643-656. doi:10.1080/01436590120071821 Paredis, E. (2011). Sustainability transitions and the nature of technology. Foundations of Science, 16(2), 195-225. doi:10.1007/s10699-010-9197-4 Rana, S., Avila-Garcia, D., Dib, V., Familia, L. et al. (2020) The voices of youth in envisioning positive futures for nature and people. Ecosystems and People 16(1):326-344. DOI: /10.1080/26395916.2020.1821095 Schulz, R., Wahl, H., & Matthews, J. T. (2015). Advancing the aging and technology agenda in gerontology. Gerontologist, 55(5), 724-734. doi:10.1093/geront/gnu071 Schwarz, A. (2009). Green dms of reason. green nanotechnology between visions of excess and control. Nanoethics, 3(2), 109-118. doi:10.1007/s11569-009-0061-3 Shao, Y., Sang, J., & Fu, J. (2015). On human pluripotent stem cell control: The rise of 3D bioengineering and mechanobiology. Biomaterials, 52, 26-43. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.01.078 Sutherland, William J.; Butchart, Stuart H.M.; Connor, Ben; Culshaw, Caroline et al. (2018) A 2018 horizon scan of emerging issues for global conservation and biological diversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 33(1), 47-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.11.006. Vergragt, Philip.
(2013) Beyond politization of technology and sustainability: A plea for
visioning. Foundations of Science 18(2), 361-365. DOI: 10.1007/s10699-011-9270-7. Wiek, A., Guston,
D., Leeuw, S. v. d., Selin, C., & Shapira, P. (2013). Nanotechnology
in the city: Sustainability challenges and anticipatory governance. Journal
of Urban Technology, 20(2), 45-62. doi:10.1080/10630732.2012.735415 Williamson,
P., Wallace, D. W. R., Law, C. S., Boyd, P. W., Collos, Y., Croot, P.,
et al. (2012). Ocean fertilization for geoengineering: A review of effectiveness,
environmental impacts and emerging governance. Process Safety & Environmental
Protection: Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Part
B, 90(6), 475-488. Zamft, B. M.,
& Conrado, R. J. (2015). Engineering plants to reflect light: Strategies
for engineering water-efficient plants to adapt to a changing climate.
Plant Biotechnology Journal, 13(7), 867-874. doi:10.1111/pbi.12382 Zhang, Z., Moore, J. C., Huisingh, D., & Zhao, Y. (2015). Review of geoengineering approaches to mitigating climate change. Journal of Cleaner Production, 103, 898-907. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.09.076 Additional Resources -- Globalization Anderies, J. M., Folke, C., Walker, B., & Ostrom, E. (2013). Aligning key concepts for global change policy: Robustness, resilience, and sustainability. Ecology & Society, 18(2), 26-41. doi:10.5751/ES-05178-180208 Aneesh, A. (2012). Negotiating globalization: Men and women of India's call centers. Journal of Social Issues, 68(3), 514-533. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01761.x Bengtsson, S. L., & Östman, L. O. (2013). Globalisation and education for sustainable development: Emancipation from context and meaning. Environmental Education Research, 19(4), 477-498. doi:10.1080/13504622.2012.709822 Bolwig, S., Ponte, S., du Toit, A., Riisgaard, L., & Halberg, N. (2010). Integrating poverty and environmental concerns into value-chain analysis: A conceptual framework. Development Policy Review, 28(2), 173-194. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2010.00480.x Bošnjakovic, B. (2012). Geopolitics of climate change: A review. Thermal Science, 16(3), 629-654. doi:10.2298/TSCI120202127B Christens, B. D., & Collura, J. J. (2012). Local community organizers and activists encountering globalization: An exploratory study of their perceptions and adaptations. Journal of Social Issues, 68(3), 592-611. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01765.x Clifford, N. J. (2009). Globalization: A physical geography perspective. Progress in Physical Geography, 33(1), 5-16. doi:10.1177/0309133309105035 Cohen, M. J. (2010). The international political economy of (un)sustainable consumption and the global financial collapse. Environmental Politics, 19(1), 107-126. doi:10.1080/09644010903396135 Ehrenfeld, D. (2005). The environmental limits to globalization. Conservation Biology, 19(2), 318-326. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00324.x Ernstson, H., & Sörlin, S. (2013). Ecosystem services as technology of globalization: On articulating values in urban nature. Ecological Economics, 86(0), 274-284. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.09.012 Garmendia, Eneko; Urkidi, Leire; Arto, Inaki; Barcena, Inaki; Bermejo, Roberto; Hoyos, David and Lagos, Rosa. (2016) Tracing the impacts of a northern open economy on the global environmental. Ecological Economics 126: 169-181. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.02.011. Gudynas, Eduardo (2016) Climate change, the quadrilemma of globalization, and other politically incorrect reactions. Globalizations 13(6), 938-942. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2016.1162995. Hawkes, C., Friel, S., Lobstein, T., & Lang, T. (2012). Linking agricultural policies with obesity and noncommunicable diseases: A new perspective for a globalising world. Food Policy, 37(3), 343-353. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.02.011 Kamat, S. (2011). Neoliberalism, urbanism and the education economy: Producing Hyderabad as a 'global city'. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 32(2), 187-202. doi:10.1080/01596306.2011.565639 Khan, Sabaa
Ahmad. (2016) E-products, E-waste and the Basel Convention: Regulatory
challenges and impossibilities of international environmental law. Review
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Schuller, M. (2009). Gluing globalization: NGOs as intermediaries in Haiti. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 32(1), 84-104. doi:10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01025.x Schwarz, Jana and Mathijs, Erik. (2017) Globalization and the sustainable exploitation of scarce groundwater in coastal Peru. Journal of Cleaner Production. 147:231-241. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.067. Severo, Eliana Andrea; Guimaraes, Julio Cesar Ferro de; Dorion, Eric Charles Henri and Nodari, Cristine Hermann. (2015) Cleaner production, environmental sustainability and organizational performance: An empirical study in the Brazilian metal-mechanic industry. Journal of Cleaner Production 96:118-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.06.027 Soleymani, M. (2010). The heavy price of globalization: Globalization and sustainable development. Perspectives on Global Development & Technology, 9(1), 101-118. doi:10.1163/156914910X487942 Stoler, Justin.
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