Readings
Climate Change. Challenges. Solutions.
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Week 5 – Energy Efficiency
Jenkins, Jesse, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger. “Energy emergence: rebound and backfire as emergent phenomena.” Breakthrough Institute Report, Oakland, CA (2011)
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Owen, David. 2010. “The Efficiency Dilemma.” The New Yorker, December 20.
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Weber, Christopher L., and H. Scott Matthews. 2008. “Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States.” Environmental Science & Technology 42 (10) (May): 3508–3513. doi:10.1021/es702969f.
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Week 6 – Climate & National Security
Steinbruner, John D, and National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Social and Political Stresses. 2012. Climate and social stress implications for security analysis. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=14682.
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Week 7 – Transportation
Bandivadekar, Anup, Kristian Bodek, Lynette Cheah, Christopher Evans, Tiffany Groode, John Heywood, Emmanuel Kasseris, Matthew Kromer, and Malcom Weiss. 2008. On the Road in 2035: Reducing Transportation’s Petroleum Consumption and GSG Emissions. Cambridge, MA: Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://web.mit.edu/sloan-auto-lab/research/beforeh2/otr2035/On%20the%20Road%20in%202035_MIT_July%202008..
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Week 8 – Fission & Fracking (Nuclear Power)
Bosselman, Fred. 2007. “The Ecological Advantages of Nuclear Power.” New York University Environmental Law Journal 15 (1). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1523949.
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Karam, P. Andrew. 2006. “How Do Fast Breeder Reactors Differ from Regular Nuclear Power Plants?” Scientific American, July 17. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-do-fast-breeder-react
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Executive Summary, The Future of Nuclear Power, An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. 2003. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Deutch, J, C Forsberg, A Kadach, M Kazami, E Moniz, J Parsons, Y Du, and L Peirpont. 2009.Update of the MIT 2003, The Future of Nuclear Power. Cambridge, MA: MIT Energy Initiative, Massaschusetts Institute of Technology.
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Week 9 – New opportunities for fossil fuels
Tollefson, Jeff. 2013. “Methane leaks erode green credentials of natural gas.” Nature 493 (January 3).
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Week 10 – Renewable Energy Solutions
Singer, Stephan, World Wildlife Fund, ECOFYS (Firm), and Office for Metropolitan Architecture. 2011.The Energy Report: 100% Renewable Energy by 2050. Gland: WWF International. http://assets.wwfza.panda.org/downloads/101223_energy_report_final_print_2..
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