Syllabus/achievement requirements

* = the article is in a compendium

@= the article is available online

How to find an article on the reading list

Book: Maslin, Mark. 2014. Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction. 3 edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (216 pages)

In compendium

*Antonio, Robert J., and Brett Clark. 2015. “The Climate Change Divide in Social Theory.” In Climate Change and Society, edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, 333–68. Oxford University Press. (36 pages)

*Hamilton, Clive. 2010. Requiem for a Species. London?; Washington, DC: Routledge. (Chapters 7 & 8: 190-226) (37 pages)

*Eriksen, Siri, Tor H?kon Inderberg, Karen O’Brien, and Linda Sygna. 2015. “Introduction: Development as Usual Is Not Enough.” In Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Transforming Paradigms and Practices, 1–18. Routledge. (18 pages)

*O’Brien, Karen, and Elin Selboe. 2015. “Climate Change as an Adaptive Challenge.” In The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change, p.1-23. New York: Cambridge University Press. (23 pages)

*Pelling, Mark. 2011. Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation. London?; New York: Routledge. (Chapters 1 and 2: The Adaptation Age, Understanding Adaptation)  (48 pages)

Online

@Adger, W. Neil, Jon Barnett, Katrina Brown, Nadine Marshall, and Karen O’Brien. 2013. “Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.” Nature Climate Change 3 (2): 112–17. doi:10.1038/nclimate1666. (6 pages)

@Adger, W. Neil, Suraje Dessai, Marisa Goulden, Mike Hulme, Irene Lorenzoni, Donald R. Nelson, Lars Otto Naess, Johanna Wolf, and Anita Wreford. 2009. “Are There Social Limits to Adaptation to Climate Change?” Climatic Change 93 (3–4): 335–54. doi:10.1007/s10584-008-9520-z. (20 pages)

@Barnett, Jon, and Saffron O’Neill. 2010. “Maladaptation.” Global Environmental Change 20 (2): 211–13. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.11.004. (3 pages)

@Barnett, Jon et al. 2016. A Science of Loss. Nature Climate Change 6: 976-978. (3 pages)

@Bassett, Thomas J., and Charles Fogelman. 2013. “Déjà vu or Something New? The Adaptation Concept in the Climate Change Literature.” Geoforum 48 (August): 42–53. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.010. (12 pages)

@Berrang-Ford, Lea, James D. Ford, and Jaclyn Paterson. 2011. “Are We Adapting to Climate Change?” Global Environmental Change 21 (1): 25–33. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.09.012. (9 pages)

@Black, Richard, W. Neil Adger, Nigel W. Arnell, Stefan Dercon, Andrew Geddes, and David Thomas. 2011. “The Effect of Environmental Change on Human Migration.” Global Environmental Change,  Migration and Global Environmental Change – Review of Drivers of Migration, 21, Supplement 1  (December): S3–11. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.10.001. (9 pages)

@Butzer, Karl W., and Georgina H. Endfield. 2012. “Critical Perspectives on Historical Collapse.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (10): 3628–31. doi:10.1073/pnas.1114772109. (4 pages)

@ Cameron, Emilie. 2012. Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Global Environmental Change 103–114.

@Dannevig, Halvor, and Grete K. Hovelsrud. 2015. “Understanding the Need for Adaptation in a Natural Resource Dependent Community in Northern Norway: Issue Salience, Knowledge and Values.” Climatic Change 135 (2): 261–75. doi:10.1007/s10584-015-1557-1. (15 pages)

@Farbotko, Carol, and Heather Lazrus. 2012. “The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu.” Global Environmental Change, Adding Insult to Injury: Climate Change, Social Stratification, and the Inequities of Intervention, 22 (2): 382–90. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.11.014. (9 pages)

@Folke, Carl, Stephen Carpenter, Brian Walker, Marten Scheffer, Terry Chapin, and Johan Rockstr?m. 2010. “Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability.” Ecology and Society 15 (4). doi:10.5751/ES-03610-150420. (9 pages)

@Hamilton, Lawrence C., Kei Saito, Philip A. Loring, Richard B. Lammers, and Henry P. Huntington. 2016. “Climigration? Population and Climate Change in Arctic Alaska.” Population and Environment 38 (2): 115–33. doi:10.1007/s11111-016-0259-6. (19 pages)

@Head, Lesley. 2010. “Cultural Ecology: Adaptation - Retrofitting a Concept?” Progress in Human Geography 34 (2): 234–42. doi:10.1177/0309132509338978. (9 pages)

@Ide, Tobias. 2017. “Research Methods for Exploring the Links between Climate Change and Conflict.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, January . doi:10.1002/wcc.456. (14 pages)

@Ireland, Philip. 2012. “Climate Change Adaptation: Business‐as‐usual Aid and Development or an Emerging Discourse for Change?” International Journal of Development Issues 11 (2): 92–110. doi:10.1108/14468951211241100. (19 pages)

@Kates, Robert W., William R. Travis, and Thomas J. Wilbanks. 2012. “Transformational Adaptation When Incremental Adaptations to Climate Change Are Insufficient.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (19): 7156–61. doi:10.1073/pnas.1115521109. (6 pages)

@Liverman, Diana. 2009. “The Geopolitics of Climate Change: Avoiding Determinism, Fostering Sustainable Development: An Editorial Comment.” Climatic Change 96 (1–2): 7–11. doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9638-7. (5 pages)

@L?vbrand, Eva, Silke Beck, Jason Chilvers, Tim Forsyth, Johan Hedrén, Mike Hulme, Rolf Lidskog, and Eleftheria Vasileiadou. 2015. “Who Speaks for the Future of Earth? How Critical Social Science Can Extend the Conversation on the Anthropocene.” Global Environmental Change 32 (May): 211–18. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.012. (8 pages)

@New, Mark. 2011. “Four Degrees and beyond: The Potential for a Global Temperature Increase of Four Degrees and Its Implications.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369 (1934): 4–5. doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0304. (2 pages)

@Nielsen, Jonas ?stergaard, and Frank Sejersen. 2012. “Earth System Science, the IPCC and the Problem of Downward Causation in Human Geographies of Global Climate Change.” Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography 112 (2): 194–202. doi:10.1080/00167223.2012.741885. (9 pages)

@Norgaard, K. M. 2006. “‘We Don’t Really Want to Know’: Environmental Justice and Socially Organized Denial of Global Warming in Norway.” Organization & Environment 19 (3): 347–70. doi:10.1177/1086026606292571. (24 pages)

@O’Brien, Karen. 2011. “Responding to Environmental Change: A New Age for Human Geography?” Progress in Human Geography 35 (4): 542–49. doi:10.1177/0309132510377573.

@O’Brien, Karen. 2012. “Global Environmental Change II: From Adaptation to Deliberate Transformation.” Progress in Human Geography 36 (5): 667–76. doi:10.1177/0309132511425767. (10 pages)

@O’Brien, Karen L., and Johanna Wolf. 2010. “A Values-Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 1 (2): 232–42. doi:10.1002/wcc.30. (11 pages)

@ O’Brien, Karen, Siri Eriksen, Lynn P. Nygaard and Ane Schjolden. 2007. “Why Different Interpretations of Vulnerability Matter in Climate Change Discourses.” Climate Policy 7 (1): 73–88. doi:10.1080/14693062.2007.9685639. (16 pages)

@Olsson, Lennart, Anne Jerneck, Henrik Thoren, Johannes Persson, and David O’Byrne. 2015. “Why Resilience Is Unappealing to Social Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of the Scientific Use of Resilience.” Science Advances 1 (4): e1400217. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1400217. (12 pages)

@Pelling, Mark, David Manuel-Navarrete, and M. R. Redclift, eds. 2011. Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism. New York: Routledge.

@Redclift, Michael, and Colin Sage. 1998. “Global Environmental Change and Global Inequality: North/South Perspectives.” International Sociology 13 (4): 499–516. doi:10.1177/026858098013004005. (18 pages)

@Ribot, Jesse. 2014. “Cause and Response: Vulnerability and Climate in the Anthropocene.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 41 (5): 667–705. doi:10.1080/03066150.2014.894911. (39 pages)

@Rickards, Lauren, Ray Ison, Hartmut Fünfgeld, and John Wiseman. 2014. “Opening and Closing the Future: Climate Change, Adaptation, and Scenario Planning.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 32 (4): 587–602. doi:10.1068/c3204ed. (16 pages)

@Rosa, Eugene A., and Thomas Dietz. 2012. “Human Drivers of National Greenhouse-Gas Emissions.” Nature Climate Change 2 (8): 581–86. doi:10.1038/nclimate1506. (6 pages)

@ Sherman, Mya, Lea Berrang-Ford, Shuaib Lwasa, James Ford, Didacus B. Namanya, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Michelle Maillet, Sherilee Harper, and IHACC Research Team. 2016. “Drawing the Line between Adaptation and Development: A Systematic Literature Review of Planned Adaptation in Developing Countries.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 7 (5): 707–26. doi:10.1002/wcc.416. (20 pages)

@Smit, Barry, and Johanna Wandel. 2006. “Adaptation, Adaptive Capacity and Vulnerability.” Global Environmental Change, 16 (3): 282–92. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.03.008. (11 pages)

@ St.Clair, Asuncion Lera. 2014. “The Four Tasks of Development Ethics at Times of a Changing

Climate.” Journal of Global Ethics 10 (3): 283–91. doi:10.1080/17449626.2014.974111. (9 pages)

@Swyngedouw, Erik. 2010. “Apocalypse Forever? Post-Political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change.” Theory, Culture & Society 27 (2–3): 213–32. doi:10.1177/0263276409358728. (20 pages)

Total: 784 pages

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