Syllabus

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Books 

Carsen, R. (1962). Silent Spring.  E-book. All chapters.

Sessions, G. (Ed.) (1995). Deep Ecology for the 21st Century. chapters 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 16, 17.  

Witoszek, N. “Arne N?ss & Ecological Utopia”, in: The Origins of the Regime of Goodness.  Book provided by SUM.

Compendium

The following articles are available in a compendium that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Your Student ID Card.

Berry, T. The Great Work: Our Way towards the Future, chapters 1, 3, 7, 9, 14, 16,  

Hawken, P. (2007). Blessed Unrest (Chapter 1) & The Long Green (Chapter 2). In Blessed Unrest. How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, and Why No One Saw It Coming. London: Viking. pp. 9-47.

Hawken, P. (2007). Indigene (Chapter 6). In Blessed Unrest. How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, and Why No One Saw It Coming. London: Viking. pp. 87-114.

Leopold, A. (1945), chapter “Thinking Like a Mountain.” In Sand County Almanac.

Leopold, A. (1945). Chapter “The Land Ethic.” In Sand County Almanac.

Merchant, C. The Death of Nature. Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. pp. 192-295. 

Nordhaus, T., & Michael Shellenberger (2007).  Break-Through. From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. Boston – New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Introduction and chapter 1.

Digital Articles:

You must be logged on via the University of Oslo server in order to access the following articles. 

Hardin, G. The Tragedy of the Commons, See: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243

Klein, N. Reclaiming the Commons. https://newleftreview.org/issues/II9/article1s/naomi-klein-reclaiming-the-commons

N?ss, A. (1973). The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement. A summary. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 16 (1-4):95 – 100. https://philpapers.org/rec/NAETSA

Thoreau, H. D. “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm

Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, Introduction, chapter 3 and 10. 

White, L. “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, 1967. Science 155: 1203-1207. See http://www.cmu.ca/faculty/gmatties/lynnwhiterootsofcrisis.pdf

Films

Boxing Arne N?ss (film, available at SUM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLadOK67TSY)

The Age of Stupid (film) – Power of Big Corporations, fragments provided by the lecturer

Extinction rebellion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8prVarP-rQ

 

 

 

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