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<h1>Independent Reading Course - Political Economy of Oil</h1>
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http://cons425.forestry.ubc.ca/syllabus/<br />
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http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/Upload/undergradsyllabus/ENV350H.pdf<br />
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For the readings try to answer the following.<br />
1.What question does the article set out to answer?<br />
2. How do they go about answering the question?<br />
3. What are the literatures/major authors they point to in their answer?<br />
4. How successful is their answer to the question?<br />
5. What are the implications of the argument?<br />
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<h2>Week 1- January 21, 2013</h2>
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Homer-Dixon- <em><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://politicaleconomy.ca/carbonshift.epub" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carbon Shift</a>- Introduction</em><br />
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<br />
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21094962<br />
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Week 2 - January 28, 2013<br />
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).<br />
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)<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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