EEP 152/ESPM 158
NATURAL RESOURCES, POPULATION, AND DEVELOPMENT
Spring 2003

MW 3:00 - 4:00
45 McCone Hall

Instructors:

David Zilberman  337 Giannini Hall
Office hours Th 11-12  tel. 2-6570
zilber@are.berkeley.edu

Carolyn Trist,  539 McCone
Office hours  TTh 1:00 - 2:00 tel. 3-2091
crtrist@redshift.com

Robin Marsh, 43 Mulford Hall
Office hours MW 2:00 - 3:00 tel.3-1042
rmarsh@nature.berkeley.edu


Course Description
This course offers a multidisciplinary view of the complex and contentious relationships between population, environment change, and economic development.  Two hundred years after Thomas Malthus wrote his famous treatise on population, the debates continue.  Does population growth spell environmental disaster?  How should it be controlled?  What are the implications for economic growth (poverty/affluence), well-being, and social justice?  Critical global issues such as climate change, family planning policies, international migration, and food security are all implicated in these persistent and often explosive debates.  During the semester, we will examine different approaches to understanding interactions among population growth, environmental quality, and economic development, with attention to case studies and policy questions from around the world.  Specific issues to be covered include the evolving demographic transition in different regions of the world, poverty and resource degradation, gender equality and development, national immigration policies, agricultural development and food production, conflicts over water resources, and the role of technological change, property rights and social institutions.

Required Texts:
* Lester Brown, et al. Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge.  Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series, 2000. (available online at www.Worldwatch.org)
* AAAS.  Atlas of Population and the Environment. University of California Press, 2001.  (available online at www.ourplanet.com)
* Newbold, K. Bruce.  Six Billion Plus: Population Issues in the Twenty-First Century.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
* Natural Resources, Population and Development Reader (Available at Vicks Copy Euclid/Hearst)

Requirements and Grading
Course requirements include one mid-term exam (30%), a take-home final exam (30%), a research project (30%), and participation in discussion sections (10%).

Week One (Jan. 22)  Introduction  (Zilberman/Trist)
Texts: Newbold "Introduction: The World of Child Six Billion;"
Reader: "Too Many or Too Few;" "Unshapely World;" Selections from CSRD Population and the Environment conference proceedings; Introduction to Beyond Six Billion; "

Week Two (Jan. 27 - 29)  World Population Growth: Trends, Patterns and Debates (Trist)
Texts:  Atlas "Overview" (pp. 3-20); Brown et al Chs. 1; Newbold Chapter 1.
Reader: Lappé and Schurman "The Population Debate;" Findlay "Population Crisis: A Malthusian Specter?;" Ross "Politics and Paradigms."

Week Three (Feb. 3-5)  Population Dynamics and Demographic Transitions (Trist)
Texts: Newbold Chapters 2 and 3. Brown et al Chapters 8 and 21.
Reader: Cohen "People Control the Growth of Human Populations."

Weeks Four and Five (Feb. 10 -19) Fertility and Household Decision-Making (Zilberman)
Reader: Ashford "Lessons from Cairo;" Sen "Womenís Agency and Social Change" and "Population Food and Freedom."8 and 9 (pp. 210-226).

Week Six (Feb. 24-26) Politics of Population Control (Trist)
Reader: Duden (1992) "Population;" Bandarage (1997) "Politics of Global Population Control;" "Malthusianism, Demography, and the Cold War." Week Seven (March 3-5)  Migration and the Environment (Marsh)
Textbooks: Newbold Ch. 4; Brown et al Chs. 11 and 14;î Atlas "Migration and Tourism."
Reader: "International Migration"

Week Eight (March 10-12)) Midterm Review and Exam
****  Midterm Exam Wednesday March 12th   ****

Week Nine (March 17-19)  Food Production and Hunger (Trist)
Texts: Brown et al Ch. 2; Atlas "Food Crops" and "Croplands."
Reader: Sen "Famines and Other Crises;" Moore Lappé Myths 1,2 and 3.
*** Spring Break March 24th - 28th  ***

Week Ten (March 31-April 2)  Population, Environment, and Resource Dynamics (Zilberman)
Texts: Newbold Ch. 6.
Reader: Jolly (1994) "Four Theories of Population Change and the Environment";
U. Regev, A. P. Gutierrez, S. J. Schreiber, and D. Zilberman, "Biological and Economic Foundations of Renewable Resource Exploitation," Ecological Economics, Vol. 26, No. 3 (September, 1998), pp. 227-242

Week Eleven (April 7-9)   Health, Risk, and the Environment (Zilberman)
Reader: Dasgupta (1995) "Population, Poverty, and the Local Environment;"
Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman, "Efficient Regulation of Environmental Health Risks:  The Case of Groundwater Contamination in California," Ricerche Economiche, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 (October-December, 1985), pp. 540-549.

Week Twelve (April 14-16)  Role of Technology and Markets in Resource Management (Zilberman)
Madhu Khanna and David Zilberman, "Incentives, Precision Technology and Environmental Quality," Ecological Economics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (October, 1997), pp. 25-43.

Week Thirteen (April 21-23)  Ocean Fisheries: Anatomy of a Global Crisis (Trist)
Textbooks: Brown et al Ch. 6; Atlas "Oceans" and "Meat and Fish" (R).
Reader:  The Economist (1998)"A Second Fall" and "A Fishermanís Tale;" Stonich and Bort "Globalization of Shrimp Mariculture: The Impact on Social Justice and Environmental Quality."

Week Fourteen (April 28-30) Conservation, Privatization, and Resource Rights (Trist)
Textbooks: Brown et al Ch. 15.
Reader: Peluso "Coercing Conservation?"; Ross  "The Struggle Continues;" Katz "Whose Nature, Whose Culture?;" Renard and Koester (1995)  "Resolving Conflicts for Integrated Coastal Management."

Weeks Fifteen (May 5-7)  Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods (Trist/Marsh)
Reader: Moore Lappé "Beyond the Myths of Hunger"

Week Sixteen (May 12)    Summary and Review