The Problem Orientation: ENVS 5720/PSCI 7026

Week 7

PART II: TRENDS

Tuesday, February 26

• reading summary #5 due by 4PM Monday via email
• individual project proposal due in class

Robbins, P., Hintz, J. and Moore, S.A. (2010) Environment and Society, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, Chapters 2 & 7 (pp. 11-27, 96-115).

Hilgartner, S. and C. Bosk (1988) The rise and fall of social problems: a public arenas model, American Journal of Sociology, 94(1), pp. 53-78.

Downs, A. (1972) Up and down with ecology: the “Issue-Attention Cycle”, The Public Interest 28, pp. 32-50.

Littler, J. (2009) Interior economies: anti-consumer activism and the limits of reflexivity’ and ‘Ecologies of green consumption, in Radical Consumption pp. 70-115.

Gupta, D. K. (2001) Making sense of numbers, in Analyzing Public Policy: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques CQ Press, Washington, DC, pp. 176-199.