Science, Culture and Sustainability (4016) …

Science, Culture and Sustainability (4016)

Module coordinator: Peder Anker

LITTERATURE

Books to buy:

Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: A Global History, (New York: Longman, 1999).

Christine Macy and Sarah Bonnemaison, Architecture and Nature, (New York, 2003).

Optional recommended non-fiction:

William Cronon (ed.), Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (New York: Norton, 1995).

Charles Rubin, The Green Crusade, (Lanham: Rawman & Littlefield, 1998).

Donald Worster, Nature's Economy, 2nd ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Optional recommended fiction

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1932), or any edition.

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, any edition.

Optional recommended computer game

MAXIS, SIMEarth: The Living Planet, (Redwood City, CA: Electronic Arts, 1995), or later versions.

Film

Things to Come (1936)

Material available on internet:

Stewart Brand (ed.), Space Colonies, (New York: Penguin, 1977). http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/

Richard D. Johnson and Charles Holbrow (eds.), Space Settlements: A Design Study, (Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1977). http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/75SummerStudy/TableofContents1.html

John Phillips, "The Biotic Community," Journal of Ecology vol. 19. (1931), pp. 1-24. www.bibsys.no

Arthur George Tansley, "The Classification of Vegetation and the Concept of Development," Journal of Ecology vol. 8. (1920), pp. 118-149. www.bibsys.no

Arthur George Tansley, "The Use and the Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms," Ecology vol. 16 (1935), pp. 284-307. www.bibsys.no

In the sourcebook:

H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells, The Science of Life (New York: Doubleday, Doran & Comp., 1931), pp. 961-1010.

John Phillips, "Man at the Cross-Roads," in Anonymous (ed.), Our Changing World-View, (Johannesburg : University of the Witwatersrand Press, 1932), pp. 51-70,

Jan Christian Smuts, Holism and Evolution, (London: Macmillan, 1926), v-vii, 1-21, 317-345.

Jan Christian Smuts, "The Spirit of the Mountain," 1923, in Greater South Africa, plans for a better world, (Johannesburg: The Truth legion, 1940), pp. 31-35.

L. Moholy-Nagy, “Why Bauhaus Education?” Shelter, March 1938, 6-21.

Handout:

Eugene B. Konecci, “Space ecological systems,” in Bioastronautics, Karl E. Schaefer (ed.), (New York: Macmillan, 1964), 274-304.