Climate Change Curriculum

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Speaker Presentations

David Archer — Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast

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Dan Brinkmeier — Climate Change 'from the other side': How what we do affects rural people and what can be done about it.

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Katie Danko — Climate Change: The Human Impact

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Richard Louis Edmonds — Climate Change and China: Problems and Prospects

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Emily Meierding — Is the Environment a Security Issue?

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Melissa Hulting — U.S. Climate Policy

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Barbara Petzen — Climate Change in the Middle East: Complex Causes and Effects

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• The Climate Change Web in the Middle East"

Greta Scharnweber — The Politics of Water in the Middle East: What No One Wants You to Know about the Jordan River (and other stories of water resource mismanagement)

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Sabina Shaikh — Economics of Global (and Domestic) Climate Change

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Michael Walsh — Market-Based Solutions to Climate Change

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Supplemental materials suggested by speakers

David Archer:

• David Archer, Chapter 1: Humankind & Climate , from Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast

Atul Jain:

• Atul K. Jain and Katharine A. S. Hayhoe, "Global Air Pollution Problems"

Laura Skelton:

• Climate Change: Connections and Solutions
• Climate Change Fast Facts & Quick Actions

Richard Edmonds:

• Special feature: "Climate Change: The China Challenge", China Perspectives (1st quarter, 2007).
• Lin Erda; Xu Yinlong; Wu Shaohong; Ju Hui; Ma Shiming, "Synopsis of China National Climate Change Assessment Report (II): Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation". Berkeley, CA: School of Law. University of California. Panel for China National Climate Change Assessment Report, n.d. [2007?]

Greta Scharnweber:

• Water Care textbook, Multilateral Working Group on Water Resources
• Friends of the Earth, Middle East
• Don't Make the Desert Bloom, The Economist, June 5 2008
• Qat Planting Leads Yemen to a Food Crisis, Hamed Thabet, Yemen Times, June 18 2008
• Gazans Mark Valentine's Day with Mixed Emotions Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters, February 14 2008

Barbara Petzen:

• Egypt:
• "Climate change could threaten food security - FAO report"
• "Rising Sea Levels Threaten Egypt’s Ancient Cities"
• "Sea Level Rise Threatens Nile Delta Ecosystems and Livelihoods"
• "Egypt’s Looming Climate Change Nightmare"
• Audio: "Audio: Financial Times reporter Heba Salih speaks with the president of the Egyptian Geographical Society about the effects of climate change"
• Turkey:
• "Turkey needs to consider climate policies after IPCC report"
• "Drain on the Mediterranean: rising water usage"
• Iraq:
• "THE NOT-SO-FERTILE CRESCENT: Climate Change Threatens Cradle of Civilization"
• "Water at war: Iraq's marshlands, once decimated by Saddam Hussein's campaign against his own people, are reviving with global aid"
• "Water Wars"

Emily Meierding:

• "Terror in the Weather Forecast", Thomas Homer-Dixon, New York Times, April 24, 2007
• Jessica Tuchman Mathews, "Redefining Security", Foreign Affairs, Spring 1989 68(2): 162-177
• Daniel Deudney, "Environment and Security: Muddled Thinking", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Apr. 1991, 47(3): 22-28

Melissa Hulting:

• "EPA's climate change page"
• "NASA - Impact of Climate Change"

Katie Danko:

• Oxfam America's Climate Change Campaign
• "Take Action - Fight for Climate Justice"
• "Impacts on Climate Change"
• "How Climate Change Hurts Poor Communities -- And How We Can Help"

Additional Recommended Materials

• Chicago's Water Agenda 2003
• Save the Source , City of Chicago water conservation leaflet
• Plant a Rain Garden , City of Chicago leaflet
• Guide to Rooftop Gardening , City of Chicago leaflet
• "Climate change in our world", Google LatLong blog, May 19 2008
• Climate and Health , World Health Organization Fact Sheet, n.266, August 2007
• Terence McNally, "How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left?"
• W. G. Rees, F. M. Stammler, F. S. Danks, P. Vitebsky, "Vulnerability of European reindeer husbandry to global change" , 2007
• Florian Stammler, "Lessons from research with reindeer nomads for understanding cultural impacts of global environmental change" , presentation at "Siberian Thaw" conference, University of Chicago, May 2008.
• "iEARN and ZEROFOOTPRINT Launch the First Global Campaign of its Kind for Youth to Reduce Greenhouse Gases!" , news release, April 2008
• The Economist special issue on climate change:
  • "China, India and climate change -- Melting Asia", The Economist, June 5, 2008
  • "A convenient truth, sadly ignored: A deal to be done between rich and poor countries on global warming is going begging", The Economist, June 5 2008
  • "Trading dirt: A controversial bill on climate change goes before the Senate", The Economist, June 5 2008
• "Some like it cool: The glacial pace of global negotiations on climate change argues in favour of local, sectoral regulations", The Economist, December 19 2007

Additional Recommended Websites

• Chicago Center for Green Technology
• Chicago Architecture Foundation’s "Green With Desire" exhibition (through September 5, FREE)
• Museum of Science & Industry’s "Smart Homes" exhibition (through January 4 2009)
• FieldMuseum’s "George Washington Carver” exhibition (through July 6)
• City of Chicago Department of Environment
• Chicago Conservation Corps

Presented by The University of Chicago Center for International Studies, in conjunction with the East Asian, Southern Asian, Latin American, East European and Russian Eurasian, and Middle Eastern Area Studies Centers.

For more information, please contact Jamie Bender at (773) 834-3852 or jbender@uchicago.edu.