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Assignment for Monday, April 3: Resource-based definitions of sustainability Read Robert Solow, "Sustainability: An economist's perspective," in Robert Dorfman and Nancy S. Dorfman, eds., Economics of the Environment, Selected Readings (1993), pp. 179-187. Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint And do one of the online ecological footprint exercises. These can be found at several organizations' websites, including The Earth Day Footprint Quiz, The Best Foot Forward Footprint Calculator, or the Mountain Equipment Cooperative Footprint Test. In light of all this quite varied information, we will use the ecological footprint concept to consider models of sustainability and their relationship to concepts of both spatial and temporal scale.