Fall 2017: MCOP Seminar Reading Schedule

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Week 1

Introduction: Concepts and Maps and Criteria

Week 2 A common problem

Fischoff- Defining Risk
Kasperson et al: Chapter 2, Whose views really matter in the end?
Stern- Blind Spots in Policy Analysis:What economics doesn’t say about energy use
DeMarchi- Public Participation and Risk Governance       
Ackerman and Heizerling- Pricing the Priceless

Week 3 Positivism

Simon- Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science
Forester- Bounded Rationality and the Politics of Muddling Through
Alexander- Rationality Revisited
Kahneman- Thinking Fast and Slow: Chapter 22 and Chapter 23
Taleb- Black Swan: Chapter 5 and Chapter 6

Week 4 Context matters: A different approach

Clark: Introduction and Fundamentals, Capters 1 & 2
Rittel and Webber- Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
Jentoft and Chuenpagdee- Fisheries and coastal governance as a wicked problem
Hacking- Social Construction of What  (Read: Why ask What?)
Beck- When are you really an adult? 

Week 5 Social Process (9/19)

Clark: Chapter 3, Social Process
Rayner- The social construction of ignorance
Fox et al- “You kill the dam, you are killing a part of me”: Dam removal and the environmental politics of river restoration
Galston- The populist movement
Kuper- What's wrong with the cultural elite?
Lasch- The Revolt of the Elites: Have they canceled their allegiance to America?

Week 6 Decision Process (9/26)

Clark: Chapter 4, Decision Process
Cash et al- Knowledge systems for sustainable development
NurseyBray et al: Science into policy? Discourse, coastal management and knowledge
Extra (but helpful): Understanding Patterns of Human Interactions and Decision Making

Week 7 Problem Orientation (10/3)

Clark: Chapter 5, Problem Orientation
Sarewitz and Pielke- Prediction in Science and Policy
Clark et al- A Problem-Oriented Overview of Management Policy
Khan and Neis- The rebuilding imperative in fisheries: Clumsy solutions for a wicked problem?

Extra: An Initial Social Process (this work relates to the Clark et al reading above an the extra reading from the week before.  Collectively, the three works cover the social process, decision process and problem orientation of a conflict in forestry management in Ecuador).

Week 8 Things people believe (10/10)

Clark: Policy Oriented Professionalism and Policy Analysis and Multiple Methods, Chapters 6 & 7
Edelman- Symbolic Basis of Politics
Elder and Cobb- Symbolic Attachments pages 28-35
Forchtner and Kølvraa- The Nature of Nationalism
Taylor- Surfing into Spirituality
Hughs- The Folly of Scientism

Week 9 Guest Speaker: Dr. Larry Cahoon (10/17)

Lindstrom et al 2011- Perfluoroalkyl Past Present and Future

Week 10: To what end do we work? e.g. Democracy (10/24)  

Student led discussions

Week 11 (10/31) Cameron- Chemistry/Public Health


https://www.ted.com/talks/siddhartha_roy_science_in_service_to_the_public_good#t-366696
https://youtu.be/Y5m8qckt4Wo
http://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2017_pfa/index.php#.We-kXoZrxjs

Abstract, Introduction, Discussion and Conclusions 
Post, G. B., P. D. Cohn and K. R. Cooper. Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), an emerging drinking water contaminant: a critical review of recent literature.
Abstract, Introduction, and Conclusions of Rushing, 
B. R., H. Q., J. N. Franklin, R. L. McMahen, D. S., C. P. Higgins, M. J. Strynar, and D. J. C. 2017. Evaluation of the Immunomodulatory Effects of 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoro-2-(Heptafluoropropoxy)-Propanoate in C57BL/6 Mice. Toxicological Sciences 156:179-189.

Optional: 
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-06/documents/drinkingwaterhealthadvisories_pfoa_pfos_updated_5.31.16.pdf

Week 12 (11/7) Christine- Goals, Metrics for Success, Trends

Week 13 (11/14) Mackenzie- Social Demographics and Politics

This week will also have a guest speaker, Dr. Rob Hart, who will provide an intro on the socioeconomic and political changes of eastern North Carolina over the last 50 years.


1.Wilmington, NC Demographics (New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender County)

2. The Wilmington Race Riot Here and here

3. Water Politics

4. Politics of Drinking Water

5. Polluting Politics AME

6. Scientific Journal of Integrating Science and Public Participation

Week 14 (11/21) Nick- Regulatory History (similar cases? politics?)






Optional:

The Lawyer Who Became Dupont's Worst Nightmare (This details the legal story behind West Virginia's PFOA pollution)Week 15 (11/28) 

Jatu- Environmental Justice (especially, water)

Bullard’s Environmental Justice for All

 Perreault’s Governance and Equity

 Reed’s Unequal Water Justice

 Kellog and Mathur’s EJ and Information Technology

 Extra: Pontius’ EJ and Drinking Water Regulation

Week 16 Presentations (12/8) 7pm




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