Course Schedule
1st Friday:
1) Course goal setting and orientation
2) Role of non-profit environmental
groups?
A)
Limits of the market system . Ecological-economic analysis
of private and public goods.
B)
Provision of public goods.
i)
Private
ii)
Government-agent/capture theory
iii)
NGOs
3) Evolution of the Conservation/environmental movement in the
US.
A.
Forerunners: Thoreau, Catlin, Marsh, Muir
B. Conservation-Effficiency 1890-1920
C. Conservation-Preservation1920-1960
D.
Development of interest groups/ social movement groups: Audubon Society, Sierra
Club, National Parks, Wilderness Society, etc.
4
Theories of social change: Punctuated Equilibrium
5)
East vs. West, free speech issues
