CS/INFO 6702
Topics in Computational Sustainability
Computer
Science and Information Science
Spring 2010
Instructor:
Carla Gomes
Faculty
Team: Jon Conrad,� Steve Ellner, Carla Gomes, and� Mary Lou Zeeman
Teaching
Assistants: Bistra Dilkina and
Georgios Piliouras
Web
page: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs6702/2010sp/
Suggested Readings
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Economics and Human Behavior
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment link
Prasha Dasgupta
African poverty: a grand challenge for sustainability science. link
Robert W. Kates, Partha Dasgupta (2007)
Proceedings of the
Persistent Poverty and informal credit. link
Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps link
Sommarat Chantarat and Christopher B. Barrett
Quantifying sustainable development: The future of tropical economies. link
Hall, C.A.S. (Ed.) Academic Press. 2000.
The Need to Reintegrate the Natural Sciences with Economics. link
Hall, C.A.S., D. Lindenberger, R. Kummell, T. Kroeger and W. Eichorn.
Bioscience 51:663-673. 2001
Infectious diseases of humans: dynamics and control
RM Anderson, RM May - New York, 1991 - Oxford Univ Press
Large-scale
spatial-transmission models of infectious disease link
Riley S. Science 316 (5829): 1298�301 (June 2007).
The Economic Dynamics of Antibiotic Efficacy under Open Access. Herrmann, Markus and G�rard Gaudet. 2009.
�Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 57(3):334-350.
Wallinga
J, van Boven M, Lipsitch M.
2010. Optimizing infectious disease
interventions during an emerging epidemic. Proc. National Acad. Sci 107:
923-928.
J. Medlock & A.P. Galvani. 2009. Optimizing influenza vaccine
distribution. Science, 325(5948): 1705�1708.
D.P. Wilson and S.M. Blower. 2005. Designing Equitable
Antiretroviral
Allocation Strategies in Resource-Constrained Countries. PLoS
Medicine 2:
132-141.
Dushoff J, Plotkin JB, Viboud C, et al. 2007. Vaccinating to
protect a
vulnerable subpopulation. PLOS MEDICINE 4: 921-927.
Zaric, GS;
Brandeau, ML. 2007. A little planning goes a
long way:
Multilevel allocation of HIV prevention resources. MEDICAL DECISION
MAKING, 27: 71-81.
Tanner, MW; Sattenspiel, L; Ntaimo, L. 2008. Finding optimal
vaccination
strategies under parameter uncertainty using stochastic programming.
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES, 215: 144-151.
Longini,
IM; Nizam, A; Xu, SF; et
al. 2005. Containing pandemic influenza
at the source. SCIENCE, 309: 1083-1087.
Patel R, Longini IM, Halloran ME. 2005. Finding
optimal vaccination
strategies for pandemic influenza using genetic algorithms. JOURNAL OF
THEORETICAL BIOLOGY 234: 201-212.
Bravata,
DM; Zaric, GS; Holty, JEC;
et al. 2006. Reducing mortality from
anthrax bioterrorism: Strategies for stockpiling and dispensing medical
and pharmaceutical supplies. BIOSECURITY AND BIOTERRORISM-BIODEFENSE
STRATEGY PRACTICE AND SCIENCE 4: 244-262.
The tragedy of
the commons. Hardin, G. 1968. Science,
162:1243�1248.
Ecosystem Services Special Feature:
Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species
conservation on a landscape link
Erik Nelson, Stephen Polasky, David J. Lewis, Andrew
J. Plantinga, Eric Lonsdorf,
Denis White, David Bael, and Joshua J. Lawler
PNAS 2008 105:9471-9476; doi:10.1073/pnas.0706178105
EcoTRADE - A multi-player network game of a
tradable permit market for biodiversity credits. (link)
Hartig, F., Horn, M. & Drechsler,
M.
Environmental Modelling & Software 2009
Abstract: EcoTRADE is a multi-player network game of
a virtual biodiversity credit market. Each player controls the land use of a
certain amount of parcels on a virtual landscape. The biodiversity credits of a
particular parcel depend on neighboring parcels, which may be owned by other
players. The game can be used to study the strategies of players in experiments
or classroom games and as a communication tool for stakeholders participating
in credit markets that include spatially interdependent credits.
Asymmetric information and contract design for payments for environmental
services (link)
Paul J. Ferraro
Ecological Economics, Volume 65, Issue 4, May 2008
Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions
Terry Dinan (Congressional Budget Office) link
Tax deductions, environmental policy, and the "double dividend" hypothesis. link
Ian Parry and Antonio Bento
Games of Climate Change with International Trade (link)
Claudia Kemfert & Wietze
Lise & Richard Tol
Environmental & Resource Economics, European Association of Environmental
and Resource Economists, vol. 28(2), pages 209-232, June, 2004
����������� Institutional incentives and sustainable development: infastructure policies in perspective link
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Leveraging Social Networks to Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints,
Jennifer Mankoff, Deanna Matthews, Susan R. Fussell and Michael Johnson, Proceedings of HICSS 2007, pp. 87.
UbiGreen: Investigating a mobile tool for tracking and supporting green transportation habits.
J.Froehlich, T. Dillahunt, P. Klasnja, J. Mankoff, S. Consolvo, B. Harrison, J. Landay. Proc. CHI 2009
Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism
Eric Paulos, R.J. Honicky, and Ben Hooker
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City.
Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global.
Edited by Marcus Foth, IGI Global, 2008
Mobile Persuasion for Everyday Behavior Change
in Mobile Persuasion: Perspectives on the Future of Influence
Sunny Consolvo, Eric Paulos, and Ian Smith
Edited by B.J Fogg, 2007
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Background
Info on the State of the Planet
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Human-Built
Systems and Land Use
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