Syllabus

Book

Bj?rkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (2012) Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies (Oslo: Unipub).

Compendium

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

  • Adams, W.H. (2009) “The Dilemma of Sustainability”, in Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (London: Routledge), pp. 1-25.
  • Adams, W.M. (2009) Chapter 9. Sustainable forests? in Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World. Routledge, New York. pp 239-274
  • Ellen, Roy (1999) Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram, in Tania Li (ed.) Transforming the Indonesian Uplands. Marginality, Power and Production. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 131 – 157.
  • Goldemberg J. and Lucon O. (2010) “Energy: The Facts”, in Energy, Environment and Development, 2nd ed. (London: Earthscan), pp. 101-179.
  • Harrison, Lawrence  and Samuel  Huntington (2011),  Culture  Matters.  How Values Shape Human Progress  (New York: Basic Books), pp. 2-29.
  • Jasanoff, S. (2004) “Heaven and Earth: The Politics of Environmental Images”, in Jasanoff, S and M.L.Martello (eds.) Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance MIT Press.  Pages 31 - 54
  • Lanham, Richard (2006) The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press) pp. xi-41.
  • Moser, S.C , Lisa Dilling (eds.) (2007) Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-27
  • Pearson, R. (2000) “Rethinking Gender Matters in Development”, in T. Allen and A. Thomas (eds.) Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 383-402.
  • People’s Health Movement, Medact, et al. (2008) “The Gates Foundation”, in Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report (London: Zed Books), pp. 240-259.
  • Scott, J.C. 1998 Chapter 1. Nature and Space (pp 11-52) in Seeing like a state. How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press
  • Thomas, A. (2000) “Meanings and Views of Development”, in T. Allen and A. Thomas (eds.) Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 23-48.
  • West, Paige (2006)  Chapter 1, “New Guinea-New York” in Conservation is our Government Now, Duke University Press, pp 1 – 26.

Articles available online

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