Nota: En este apartado del curso se explica la organización y división temporal de los temas a tratar durante el curso, así como el sistema de calificación, foros de discusión y objetivos a conseguir para conseguir el diploma. Sin embargo, esta entrada del blog será dedicada exclusivamente a organizar y citar el material y publicaciones utilizadas en el curso. Cuando existan documentos en distintos idiomas se enlazará a la versión en castellano.
Sección 1: Cambio climático y salud.
Parte 1: Evidencia del cambio climático.
- Evidencias empíricas de que los humanos están causando el calentamiento climático: http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=96
- IPCC Grupo de trabajo I: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf
- Informe de síntesis IPCC (2007): http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_sp.pdf
Parte 2: Evidencias de los efectos que el cambio climático tiene sobre la salud.
- Myers SS, Bernstein AS. The coming health crisis. The Scientist. 2011;25(1):32. Available online at: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/30826/title/The-Coming-Health-Crisis/
- McMichael AJ. Globalization, Climate Change and Health. New England Journal of Medicine. 2013; 368:1335-1343. Available online at: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1109341
Sección 2: Biodiversidad y salud.
Parte 1: ¿ Qué es la biodiversidad ?
- Textbook: What is biodiversity? Chapter 1 in Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity. Chivian E, Bernstein AS, eds. Oxford University Press, 2008. This text is available as an e-textbook through Coursemart and Amazon.
Parte 2: La importancia de la biodiversidad en la tierra.
- Textbook: In Sustaining Life, Chapter 2: How is biodiversity threatened; chapter 8: Biodiversity and food production; and pp. 118-119, 128-150, 257-265, 278-282, 287-312, 315-317.
Sección 3: Soluciones.
Parte 1: Balance energético solar-terrestre.
- The NOAA Annual Greenhouse gas Index: Summer 2012 http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/
- Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter2.pdf (note - may take a few seconds to open)
Parte 2: Componentes para la estabilización del clima.
- Visit the Princeton Climate Mitigation Initiative site: http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/ explore this content rich resource and follow the links to the following articles.
- Solving the Climate Problem: Technologies for Curbing CO2 emissions. R. Socolow, R. Hotinski, J. Greenblatt, S. Pacala, Environment, 2004. http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/pdfs/climate_problem.pdf
- Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies. S. Pacala and R. Socolow, Science, 2004. http://www.princeton.edu/mae/people/faculty/socolow/Science-2004-SW-1100103-PAPER-AND-SOM.pdf
- Wedges Reaffirmed: a short essay by Robert Socolow, 2011 http://www.princeton.edu/mae/people/faculty/socolow/Wedges-reaffirmed-PLUS-ten-soliticed-comments-9-29-11.pdf
Parte 3: Sobre los distintos enfoques del cambio climático.
- World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2013 http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-2013-eighth-edition
- World Bank Report November 2012 “Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4’C Warmer World Must be Avoided” http://climatechange.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/Turn_Down_the_heat_Why_a_4_degree_centrigrade_warmer_world_must_be_avoided.pdf
- Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Roser-Renouf, C., Feinberg, G. & Howe, P. (2013) Global Warming’s SixAmericas, September 2012. Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/files/Six-Americas-September-2012.pdf
Parte 4: Ejemplos de éxito de gente, gobiernos y corporaciones que ofrecen soluciones.
- Please explore http://www.handprinter.org/ a website which has been created by our colleague Dr. Gregory Norris.
- You may also wish to read the following resource used by Dr. Norris for his course at Harvard: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic979867.files/Basic%20Beneficience%20Primer.pdf
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development guide to measuring social impact, downloadable at: http://www.wbcsd.org/impact.aspx
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Social Cost of Carbon (2010) Summary and full document available at http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/EPAactivities/economics/scc.html
- The Boston Harvard Association report “Preparing for the Rising Tide” http://www.tbha.org/preparing-rising-tide-report
Páginas de interés:
- Harvard Graduate School of Design Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/research_centers/zofnass/
- Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure http://www.sustainableinfrastructure.org/
- U.S. Green Building Council http://www.usgbc.org/
- World Green Building Council http://www.worldgbc.org