3-14: Legislation and Policy

Pre-Class Preparation

Objectives

• To review global, national, and local legislative processes in addressing global change issues.
• To review successes and failures of international agreements on environmental change and the prospects for future progress in addressing management of our environmental future.

Procedure

1. Read the summary information.

   There are no class images for this unit.

2. Take the summary information quiz. Quizzes are available from your portfolio.

3. Additional Related Reading. Although you are not ultimately responsible for content listed in this section, we encourage you to fully explore the links in order to provide a better scope on the upcoming class discussion.

   Tax to Combat Global Warming?

Class Discussion

• Problem to ponder...

• Class Discussion Summary:

Post-Class Activities

• Participate in the electronic dialog. Use this forum for:
  • continuing class discussion;
  • posing new questions to students or the instructor;
  • responding to issues/questions raised by students in class/electronic dialog.

• Recommended Reading Materials

  	The Debate on Weather CO2 Consuming Trees Should Provide Credits Against the Amount of Greenhouse Gases Countries are Allowed to Emit.
  	The hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico
  	Structure of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  	Changing Climate May Hurt Less Developed Countries, Help Developed Ones
  	Framework Convention on Climate Change, Berlin, April 1995.
  	Matters of Scale: Arteriosclerosis of the Earth.
  	Policies, Programs, and Opportunities for Your Involvement.
  	US National Assessment: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change.
  	Arrow, K., et al, 1995: Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment. Science, 268, 520-521.
  	Morrisette, Peter M., 1989: The Evolution of Policy Responses to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion. Natural Resources Journal, 29, 783-820.
  	Myers, Norman, 1995: Environmental Unknowns. Science, 269, 358-360.

• References

  	Kyoto Protocol Requirements
  	Kyoto Protocol
  	Global Climate Change Issues Forum
  	EPA's CBEP homepage.
  	Glossary (Weathervane)
  	Weathervane - a digital forum on global change policy
  	Website of the Iowa Division, United Nations Association-USA
  	Schrope, M., 2001: Global Warming: a change of climate for big oil. Nature 411, 516-518.
  	S. H. Schneider, 2001: What is 'dangerous' climate change? Nature 411, 17-19.
  	Kerr, R. A., 2000: Can the Kyoto climate treaty be saved from itself? Science 290, 920-921.
  	Lubchenco, Jane, 1998: Entering the century of the environment: A new social contract for science. Science 279, 491-497.
  	Romm, J., M. Levine, M. Brown, and E. Petersen, 1998: A road map for US carbon reductions. Science 279, 669-670.