Environmental+Risk+and+Precaution

https://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/regblog/2012/05/14-vogel-precaution.html Note that the book already won a nice award http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uoc--bpd082412.php
 * synopsis of Vogel's book**


 * chapter/book/article annotation template**

1. Full citation. 2. Where did/does the author work, what else has s/he written about, and what are her/his credentials? 3. What are the topics of the text? 4. What is the main argument of the text? 5. Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported. 6. What three quotes capture the message of the text? 7. What three questions about environmental risk and precautions does this article leave you with? 8. What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your perspective on environmental risk and precaution? (Provide citations, with a brief explanation of what you learned.)

**other relevant books** //Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor// by Rob Nixon (literature scholar) reviews: http://chronicle.com/article/Slow-Violence/127968/ http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/11/book-review-rob-nixon-slow-violence-and-the-environmentalism-of-the-poor also award winning: http://www.news.wisc.edu/21182 (with link to interview with Nixon)

//The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America// by Scott Knowles (historian) http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14925.html (with link to interview with Knowles)

[|Frontline: The Spill]
 * documentary films/lectures**

Naomi Klein in a December 2010 Ted Women Talk "Addicted to Risk." []

[|Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown]

[|Chemical Valley]

[|Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez]