Workshop Readings


Biocultural History

McEwan C., Borrero, L. And Prieto, A. Patagonia: Natural History, Prehistory and Ethnography at the Uttermost Part of the Earth (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997).

Juan Armesto et al., "Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests" Science Vol. 282 (Nov. 13, 1998) 1271-1272.

Ricardo Rozzi et al., "Three levels of integrating ecology with the conservation of South American temperate forests: the initiative of the Institute of Ecological Research Chiloé, Chile" Biodiversity and Conservation 9 (2000) 1199–1217.

Ecological Frontiers

Jonathan A. Foley et al., "Global Consequences of Land Use" Science Vol. 309 (July 22, 2005) 570-574.

John Innes and Kenneth B. H. Er, "Questionable Utility of the Frontier Forest Concept" Bioscience Vol. 52, No. 12 (2002) 1095-1109.

Michael McKinney and Julie Lockwood, "Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction" TREE Vol. 14 No. 11 (November 1999) 450-453.

James Miller and Richard Hobbes, "Conservation Where People Live and Work" Conservation Biology Vol. 16 No. 2 (April 2002) 330-337.

R.A. Mittermeier et al., "Wilderness and Biodiversity Conservation" PNAS vol. 100 No. 18 (September 3, 2003) 10309-10313.

Interdisciplinarity

Robert Frodeman, "The Policy Turn in Environmental Philosophy" Environmental Ethics Vol. 28 (2006) 3-20.

Julie Thompson Klein, "Thinking About Interdisciplinarity: a Primer for Practice" adapted from Colorado School of Mines Quarterly, 103, No 1 (2003): 101-114.

Daniel Sarewitz, "How Science Makes Environmental Controversies Worse" Environmental Science & Policy 7 (2004) 385–403.