For the readings try to answer the following.
1.What question does the article set out to answer?
2. How do they go about answering the question?
3. What are the literatures/major authors they point to in their answer?
4. How successful is their answer to the question?
5. What are the implications of the argument?
Week 2 - January 28, 2013
George Hoberg and Jeff Phillips, “Playing Defence: Early Responses to Conflict Expansion in the Oil Sands Policy Subsystem,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 2011, pp. 507-11. (on-line through UBC library).
George Hoberg, Andrea Rivers, Geoff Salomons, “Comparative Pipeline Politics: Oil Sands Pipeline Controversies in Canada and the United States,” Prepared for Delivery at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, New Orleans, August 30-September 2, 2012. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2108662 (you are not responsible for the material on the Keystone XL pipeline but you are responsible for the comparative conclusions)
Enbridge Northern Gateway. Volume 1: Overview and General Information. Project Regulatory Application. May 2010. Chapter 1 http://www.northerngateway.ca/files/application/Master_Vol%201_Final_11May10.pdf
Anthony Smith et al, Pipeline and Tanker Trouble, NRDC, Living Oceans Society, and Pembina Institute, November 29, 2011, full report http://www.pembina.org/pub/2289
Independent Reading Course - Political Economy of Oil
http://cons425.forestry.ubc.ca/syllabus/
http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/Upload/undergradsyllabus/ENV350H.pdf
For the readings try to answer the following.
1.What question does the article set out to answer?
2. How do they go about answering the question?
3. What are the literatures/major authors they point to in their answer?
4. How successful is their answer to the question?
5. What are the implications of the argument?
Week 1- January 21, 2013
Homer-Dixon- Carbon Shift- Introduction
Bill McKibben (August 3, 2012). “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”. Rolling Stone Magazine. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21094962
Week 2 - January 28, 2013
George Hoberg and Jeff Phillips, “Playing Defence: Early Responses to Conflict Expansion in the Oil Sands Policy Subsystem,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 2011, pp. 507-11. (on-line through UBC library).
George Hoberg, Andrea Rivers, Geoff Salomons, “Comparative Pipeline Politics: Oil Sands Pipeline Controversies in Canada and the United States,” Prepared for Delivery at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, New Orleans, August 30-September 2, 2012. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2108662 (you are not responsible for the material on the Keystone XL pipeline but you are responsible for the comparative conclusions)
Enbridge Northern Gateway. Volume 1: Overview and General Information. Project Regulatory Application. May 2010. Chapter 1 http://www.northerngateway.ca/files/application/Master_Vol%201_Final_11May10.pdf
Anthony Smith et al, Pipeline and Tanker Trouble, NRDC, Living Oceans Society, and Pembina Institute, November 29, 2011, full report http://www.pembina.org/pub/2289