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Fall 2003 Reading Assignments
 

Date

Assignments

 
 

3 Sep

 

Reading Assignment 1:

-Excerpts from Small is Beautiful, Ernst Schumaker [ PDF | PS ]

Kofi Annan’s Astonishing Facts, Barbara Crosette

 
 

5 Sep

 

Reading Assignment 2:

-Power to the People, Peter Hawthorne [ PDF | PS ]

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 29 - 47

 
 

8 Sep

 

Reading Assignment 3:

Pushed to the Edge, Norman Myers

 
 

10 Sep

 

Reading Assignment 4:

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 157 - 169

 
 

15 Sep

 

Reading Assignment 5:

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 192 - 203

Environmentalists Warn of Roads, Dams in Amazon (http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21708/story.htm) (optional)

 
 

17 Sep

 

Reading Assignment 6:

The $230-billion Global Lighting Energy Bill, Evan Mills

 
 

24 Sep

 

Reading Assignment 7:

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 509 - 513

Forty Litres of Water a Day, Hilary Bower

The Right to Water, World Health Organization pp 6 - 21

 
 

1 Oct

 

Reading Assignment 8:

Microfinance and Poverty Reduction: Experiences of Grameen Operation in Asia, H.I. Latifee

The Nature and Evolution of Poverty, World Bank

 
 

6 Oct

 

Reading Assignment 9:

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 18 - 29

 
 

15 Oct

 

Reading Assingment 10:

Small Holding Up, John Zarb

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 277 - 282

 
 

20 Oct

 

Reading Assignment 11:

-The Case for Genetically Modified Crops with a Poverty Focus, H. Atkinson, J. Green, S. Cowgill and A. Levesley

The GM Mirage Will Not Help the Poor, A. Wijeratna

-The Dark Side of Biotechnology, P. Stumpf

 
 

22 Oct

 

Reading Assignment 12:

Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide, Mark Warschauer

 
 

27 Oct

 

Reading Assignment 13:

-High Technology and Low Income Communities, D. Schon, B. Sanyal, W. Mitchell

 
 

29 Oct

 

Reading Assignment 14:

-World Health Report, WHO pp 1 - 26

-Selections from Health and the Developing World, J. Bryant

 
 

3 Nov

 

Reading Assignment 15:

-World Health Report, WHO pp 99 - 140

-Dying for Growth, pp 3 - 10, J. Millen, A. Irwin, J. Y. Kim

 
 

12 Nov

 

Reading Assignment 16:

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 51 - 65

-Supporting Women’s Use of Information Technologies for Sustainlable Development, N. Hafkin, N. Taggart

 
 

14 Nov

 

Reading Assignment 17:

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 12 - 16

 
 

17 Nov

 

Reading Assignment 18:

-Manufacturing Enterprise, ITDG

 
 

24 Nov

 

Reading Assignment 19:

-Artisan Profiles, Aid to Artisans

 
 

1 Dec

 

Reading Assignment 20:

-Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, pp 114 - 122, 125 -129

-Asking Appropriate Questions, Marilyn Carr

 
         

 

 

 

 
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