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Laws:
NEPA Homestead Act of 1862 Yellowstone National Parks Act Wilderness Act Clean Water Act

Events:
Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island Deepwater Horizon, Exxon Valdez, Kuwati Oil Fires Cuyahoga River, Bhopal, Lova Canal Hurricane Katrina, 3 Gorges Dam, Aral Sea London's Yellow Fog, Seveso Dioxin Cloud Dust Bowl, Yellowstone Founded EPA founded, 1st Earth Day

Notes:
Economics Notes Politics Notes || =Unit 4: Environmental Politics & Economics=

Readings:
Chapter 2 (Pg. 26-52) Chapter 3 (pg. 57-83)

Goals: Environmental History
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 * Characterize the influences of culture and worldview on the choices people make.
 * Explain the difference between Eco-centric, Bio-centric, and Anthropocentric perspectives
 * Cite examples of environmental events and how they changed people's perspective on the environment
 * Explain the three main waves of environmental policy

Goals: Environmental Politics
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 * Describe environmental policy and assess its societal context
 * Identify the institutions important to US environmental policy
 * List the institutions involved with international environmental policy
 * Describe how nations handle trans-boundary environmental issues
 * Delineate the steps of the environmental policy process
 * Categorize different approaches to environmental policy (command and control, subsidies, taxes, permit trading/cap & trade, market incentives)
 * Explain and give examples of the Tragedy of the Commons

Goals: Environmental Economics
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 * Describe precepts of neoclassical economic theory and summarize their implications for the environment
 * Compare Command Economies and Market Economies
 * Compare the concepts of economic growth, economic health, sustainability, and externalities
 * Explain the fundamentals of environmental economics and ecological economics
 * Compare and contrast GDP and GPI

Skills:

 * Perform Cost Benefit Analysis ||
 * ==Extras==

Environmental Worldviews
Worldviews

History
Environemental Timeline EPA Milestones Time's Top 10 Environmental Disasters Interactive Timeline 2 Silent Spring YouTube Clip Silent Spring Shorter Clip "DDT is Good For Me" Bhopal Disaster John Muir & Roosevelt in Yosemite What have NPOs accomplished?

Politics
School House Rock: How a Bill Becomes a Law NPOs Project Vote Smart EnviroLink: Environmnetal NPO's Encycolpedia of Earth: Environmental Law

Economics
Story of Stuff Cap & Trade Finances of Solar Titan Canada's GDP hurt by climate change World trade Organization's Environmental Site Environmental Economics GDP vs. GPI || ==Assignments== ||