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Readings for 24 January 2007 (all from the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment)

• Living beyond our means

• Ecosystems and human well-being: Synthesis (Summary for decision makers, pp. 1-24)

• Ecosystems and human well-being: Biodiversity synthesis (Summary for decision makers, pp. 1-16)
  

Reading for 31 January 2007

• The trouble with wilderness

No meeting on 7 February 2007

No meeting on 14 February 2007 (Snow day)

Readings for 21 February 2007 (from the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity)

• Biodiversity, definition of

• Biodiversity, evolution and

No meeting on 28 February 2007

Reading for 14 March 2007 from the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity)

• Biodiversity as a commodity

Readings for 21 March 2007

• Re-wilding North America (Nature 436:913-914; 2005. PDF HTML)

• Pleistocene re-wilding: an optimistic agenda for twenty-first century conservation (American Naturalist 168:660-681; 2006. PDF HTML

Readings for 28 March 2007 (from the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment)

• Analytical approaches for assessing ecosystem condition and human well-being (section 2.3, pp. 53-63)

Readings for 4 April 2007

• Public values for biodiversity conservation policies in the Oregon Coast Range (Forest Science 50:589-602; 2004)

No meeting on 11 April 2007

Readings for 18 April 2007

• Ecosystem management of south Florida (BioScience 47:499-512; 1997) (HTML PDF)

• (not for discussion, but you may find it interesting) Framing science (Science 316:56; 2007) (HTML PDF)

No meeting on 25 April 2007

Readings for 2 May 2007

• Characterizing a sustainability transition: Goals, targets, trends, and driving forces (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100:8069-8073; 2003)

• Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:16637-16643; 2006)

• A framework for sustainability science: A renovated IPAT identity (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:7860-7865)