Fall 2010; Lectures: MWF 12:00-12:50, PE 250
Assignment 1
Data analysis assignment instructions and
questions
l Optional tutorials:
l Oct 2, AH149: 4:00-5:30
l Oct 3, E-646: 4:00-5:30
l Postmortem on Assignment 1
(by Lewis Baarda)
Assignment 2
Journal Article Review: Terms of
Reference
Hazard Assessment
(Occupational Health and Safety requirement)
GetFAST (disabled
Nov 29, 2007) Please use the anonymous standard course
evaluation.
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the instructor, classes or grades, password= fast.
Please do not use this link for the regular end-of-course evaluation through the U of L web)
Required Reading Links
Week 0
Garrett Hardin “The Tragedy of the Commons”
Week 1: World’s Most Livable Cities
Week 2
Ian MacLachlan “Situational Factors and Urban Growth: The
Case of Lethbridge”
Week 4
John Adams “Residential Structure of
Midwestern Cities” Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 60(1): 37-62. (only
pp. 46-52 is essential)
Week 6
Garrett Hardin “Lifeboat
Ethics: The Case Against helping the Poor”
Reprinted from Psychology Today September 1974
Week 7
International Trade Agreements
and Local Government
Annex A: Canada’s Free Trade Agreements and Negotiations: An
Overview
Week 8
United Nations Human Development Report 2006 – Beyond
Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis
Only the
Forward to the Summary is required.
Week 10
Spence Croil and Ian
MacLachlan “Your Call is Important to Us”
Week 11
Giovanni Federico Review essay on
The
Conditions of Agricultural Growth by Ester Boserup. A brief statement about a seminal work
Week 12
United Nations Human Development Report 2007/2008 –
Human Development and Climate Change
To be released in November 2007 - Only the
Forward to the Summary is required.
Boston Consulting Group 2006 Perspectives:
Disposable Factories
Chicago
by Carl Sandburg