PS477/577: International Environmental Politics
Prof. Ronald Mitchell
Winter Term 2008

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Lecture Notes Available Online

These lecture notes are provided as a service to students in the class to facilitate note-taking during class. Be warned that sometimes, although I hope only rarely, you may find errors in my notes. These are, at their core, lecture notes that I produce for my own use. I do not edit them to ensure they are completely appropriate and accurate for student usage although they usually are. All the notes are copyrighted.  Again, I am providing them as a service to students that I hope will be helpful. Make sure to read the caveats and suggested uses of these notes at the bottom of this page.

All lecture notes are copyright of Ronald Mitchell.

Week Date Lecture
(links will work once lecture is posted)

Videos of Winter 2001 Lectures
(courtesy of Stanford University &
 the Research Channel)

Week 1 Tues., Jan.8 Lecture 1: Introduction Video
Week 1 Thur., Jan.10 Lecture 2: Introduction Video
Week 2 Tues., Jan.15 Lecture 3: Causality Video
Week 2 Thur., Jan.17 Lecture 4: Ecophilosopical and Political Perspectives Video
Week 3 Tues., Jan.22 Lecture 5: Tragedy of the Commons Video
Week 3 Thur., Jan.24 Lecture 6: Science and problem identification Video
Week 4 Tues., Jan. 29 Lecture 7: Sustainability science Video
Week 4 Thur., Jan. 31 Lecture 8: The Role of NGOs Video
Week 5 Tues., Feb. 5 Lecture 9: Negotiation Theory Video
Week 5 Thur., Feb. 7 Lecture 10: Negotiation Practice  
Week 6 Tues., Feb. 12 Lecture 11: Relative Effectiveness - Comparing the Whaling and Ozone Regimes Video
Week 6 Thur., Feb. 14 Lecture 12: Compliance Theory Video
Week 7 Tues., Feb. 19 Lecture 13: Free Trade and the Environment Video
Week 7 Thur., Feb. 21

Lecture 14: Environment and Security (Guest lecture by Jessica Hejny)

Video
Week 8 Tues., Feb. 26 Lecture 15: Writing Your Paper -- BRING YOUR QUESTIONS Video
Week 8 Thur., Feb. 28 Lecture 16: Sustainable Development Video
Week 9 Tues., Mar.4  Change to Sequence: Guest Lecture by Steve Schneider, Climate Expert from Stanford University -- this will correspond to Climate Change Part 1 (Lecture 18 on syllabus -- do those readings) Video
Week 9 Thur., Mar. 6 Lecture 18 (lecture 17 on syllabus): Population  
Week 10 Tues., Mar. 11 Lecture 19: Climate Change, Part 2 Video
Week 10 Thur., Mar. 13 Lecture 20: Course Wrap-up Video
 

SUGGESTED USE OF THESE NOTES

  • Download notes for all classes as they become available.
  • Print them out double-spaced or with a wide right-hand margin so there will be room for making annotations and additions during lecture.
  • Put them in a three ring binder with additional pages at each lecture for notes beyond those on the lectures themselves.

CAVEATS FOR USE OF THESE NOTES

  • They are not a substitute for class attendance.
  • They do not provide complete coverage of the topics that will be discussed during any given lecture and may have very little relationship to the content of a lecture.
  • They currently follow the planned schedule for the course but, they may not correspond exactly to the scheduled lecture dates. Attending class will be crucial both to knowing what was covered in lectures and in what sequence.
 

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Ronald Mitchell - rmitchel@uoregon.edu 
Department of Political Science - http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1284
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© Ronald B. Mitchell, 2008