Population and its effects

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Overheads, tables, instructor notes:

• Figures from text (Fundamentals of Environmental Physics, Forinash).

Population

• Fertility rate graph.
• Population history graph, table.
• Population projections from the UN one, two.
• Chart of population statistics from the UN.
• Science Special Issue on Population (July 29, 2011).
• World Resources Institute (information about poverty).
• Negative Population Growth organization.
• World population at a glance (US Census Bureau data).
• Population Handbook, 5th ed. Population Reference Bureau.
• Population Reference Bureau (demographic data).
• Family planning and CO2 emission.
• Percentage of people living on $1 a day.

Pollution

• London fog event, 1952.
• Worst Places in the World (Sprol.com).
• Donora, PA.
• The US government's AIRnow page (ozone and particulate forcasts).
• EPA page on lead pollution.
• Earth trends (web site that tracks global natural resource use).
• What happens to your stuff when you throw it away? The story of stuff.
• Rate of recycling in the US.
• Historical table of heavy metal and gas emissions.
• Acid rain maps: US, Europe.
• Car emissions.
• Ozone Hole, 2003 (NASA photo).
• Sulfur dioxide graph.
• Pacific Garbage Patch (YouTube video) TED talk: Moore.
• Climate hot map (shows effects of climate change).
• Summary of noise pollution effects with links.
• FAQ on active noise cancellation.
• Bioremediation summary page with links.
• Phytoremediation (using plants to filter pollutants) for:
  • Radioactive materials at Chernobyl.
  • Oranic compounds.

Water and Food

• UN Aquastat page (global water statistics).
• The World's Water Organization.
• Historical water use: one, two.
• Calculate your water footprint.
• Water scarcity.
• Renewable Water.
• List of disappearing Lakes (Earth Policy Organization).
• Historical changes in food consumption: livestock, fish.
• Increase factor for the last 200 years.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT). Information about food and water resources world wide.

Articles:

• 'Global Metal Pollution', J. O. Nriagu Environmentnt vol.32 No. 7 (1990) p7.
• 'A History of Global Metal Production', Science, Vol. 272 Issue 5259 (1996) p223.
• 'Lead in the Inner Cities', Howard Mielke American Scientist vol. 87 No. 1 January-Febuary (1999) p.62.
• 'Not Cleaning Up' by W. Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American vol. 284 No. 2 Feb. (1999).
• 'Making every drop count', Peter H. Gleick Scientific American vol. 284 No. 2 Feb. (2001) p.
• 'The Bottleneck', E. O. Wilson from The future of Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
• 'Aerosols in the Atmosphere', Sarah GrahamScientific American vol. 287 No. 1 January (2002) p.
• 'An Environmental Fairy Tale', A Irwin in It must be beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science (Granta Press, 2002) ed. G. Farmelo. 
• 'The Global Transport of Dust; An intercontinental river of dust, microorganisms and toxic chemicals flows through the Earth's atmosphere', Dale W. Griffin, Christina A. Kellogg, Virginia H. Garrison, Eugene A. ShinnAmercian Scientist, vol. 90 No. 3 (2002) p 228.
• ‘Rapid Worldwide Depletion of Predatory Fish Populations’, R. A. Myers and B. Worm, Nature 423, (15 May 2003) pp 280-283.
• 'Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals Measuring chemicals in human tissues is the "gold standard" for assessing people's exposure to pollution', Ken Sexton, Larry L. Needham, James L. Pirkle Scientific American vol. 92 No. 1 (2004) p 38.
• 'Human Population Grows Up', J. E. Cohen, Scientific American Vol. 293 No. 9 (Sept. 2005) p48.
• 'Water footprints of nations: Water use of peoples as a function of their consumption patterns' A. Y. Hoekstra and A. K. Chapagain, Water Resource Management, vol. 21 (2007) p35.
• 'Water News: Bad, Good and Virtual' V. Smil, American Scientist, vol. 96 No. 5 September-October (2008) p 399.
• 'The greenhouse hamburger', N. Fiala, Scientific American, vol. 300, no. 2 (2009) p 72.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT): Water Report 23: "Review of world water resources by country" http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/main/index.stmm.