Syllabus/achievement requirements

* = the text is in the compendium

The compedium is available as a pdf here

@= the text is available online

¤ = the text is available as E-book through the University library

Main books

Leichenko, R. M. and O’Brien, K. 2019. Climate and Society: Transforming the Future. Cambridge: Polity Press.  (250 pages)

Available as e-book

¤Berkes, F. 2008. Context of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Chapter 1 (Pages 1-20) in: Berkes, F. 2008, 4th edition. Sacred Ecology.. Abingdon: Routledge. (20 pages) E-book

¤Brown, K. 2013. Social Ecological Resilience and Human Security. Chapter 9 (Pages 107-116) in Sygna, Linda, Karen O’Brien and Johanna Wolf (eds.), A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy, and Action. London, UK: Routledge-Earthscan. (10 pages) E-book

¤Dryzek, J. 2013. Making Sense of Earth’s Politics: A Discourse Approach. Chapter 1 (Pages 3-23) in Dryzek, John. 2013. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses Oxford: Oxford University Press. (21 pages) 

¤Ehrhardt-Martinez, K. and Schor, J.B. et al. 2015. Consumption and Climate Change. Chapter 4 (Pages (93-106) in Dunlap, R. and Brulle, R. (eds.) Climate and Society, London. Routledge. (14 pages) E-book

¤Head, L. 2016. Grief will be our companion. Chapter 2 (pages (21-37) in  Head, Lesley. 2016. Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re-Conceptualising Human–nature Relations. New York, NY: Routledge. (17 pages) E-book

¤Heyd, T. and Brooks, N. 2009. Exploring cultural dimensions of adaptation. Chapter 17 (Pages 269-282) in: Adger, N. W., Lorenzoni, I. and O’Brien, K. (eds.) Adapting to Climate Change- Thresholds, Values, Governance. Cambridge University press, UK? (14 pages) E-book

¤Milkoreit, M. 2016. The Promise of Climate Fiction – Imagination, Storytelling and the Politics of the Future. Chapter 10 (Pages (171-191) ) in: Wapner, P. and E. Hilal (eds.) 2016, Reimagining Climate Change. Routledge Publishing (21 pages) E-book

¤ Riedy, C. 2019. The Witnesses. Pages 1- 15 in K. O’Brien et al (eds) Our Entangled Future: Stories to Empower Quantum Social Change. (15 pages) E-book.

¤Sharma, M. 2017. The Radical Systems and Cultural Transformer: Everyone’s Contribution. Chapter 9 (Pages 209-231) in Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents. North Atlantic Books. (23 pages) E-book

¤Stirling, A. 2015. Emancipating transformations: from controlling ‘the transition’ to culturing plural radical progress. Chapter 4 in: I. Scoones et al. 2015. The Politics of Green Transformations. (Pages 54-67) London: Routledge/Earthscan. (14 pages) E-book

¤Wilhite, H. 2016. A theory of Habits. Chapter 2 in: Wilhite, Harold. 2016. The Political Economy of Low Carbon Transformation: Breaking the Habits of Capitalism. (21-39) London?: New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. (19 pages) E-book

In compendium

*Singh, V. 2016. Entanglement. In: J.J. Adams (eds.) Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. (269-322). London: Saga (54 pages)

*Stoknes, Per Espen. 2015. What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming. Pages 54-84 (Chapters 5-7). White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green. (31 pages)

Available online

@Barnett, J. and Adger, W.N. 2007. Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict. Political Geography, 26, 6. 639–655. Available online (17 pages)

@Dietz, T., Rosa, A. and York, R. 2007. Driving the human ecological footprint. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 5, 1: 13-18. Available online (6 pages)

@Gibbs, W. Wayt. 2017 “How Much Energy Will the World Need?” Anthropocene Magazine. Available online (4 pages)

@Ingram, M., Ingram, H. and Lejano, R. 2015. Environmental Action in the Anthropocene: The Power of Narrative Networks. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, November. 1–16. Available online (16 pages)

@Jenkins, K., McCauley, D., Heffron, R., Stephan, H., Rehner, R., 2016. Energy justice: A conceptual review. Energy Research & Social Science. 11: 174–182. Available online (9 pages)

@Leichenko, R. and Silva, J.A. 2014. Climate Change and Poverty: Vulnerability, Impacts, and Alleviation Strategies. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 5, 4: 539–56. Available online. (18 pages)

@Maxwell, S. Fuller, R., Brooks, T. and Watson, J. 2016. Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers. Nature 536, 7615: 143-145 Available online (3 pages)

@McGlade, C. and Ekins, P. 2015. The Geographical Distribution of Fossil Fuels Unused When Limiting Global Warming to 2 °C. Nature517, 7533: 187–90. Available online. (3 pages)

@O’Brien, K. 2018. Is the 1.5°C Target Possible? Exploring the Dynamics of Social Transformations. COSUST 31: 153-160 Available online (7 pages)

@O’Brien, K. and Leichenko, R. M. 2000. Double Exposure: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change within the Context of Economic Globalization. Global Environmental Change 10, 3: 221–32. Available online (12 pages)

@ Reckien, D., Creutzig, F., Fernandez, B., Lwasa, S., Tovar-Restrepo, M., McEvoy, D. and Satterthwaite, D.. 2017. Climate Change, Equity and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Urban Perspective. Environment and Urbanization 29, 1: 159–82 Available online (24 pages)

@Ribot, J., 2014. Cause and response: Vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 41 (5), 667–705. Available online (38 pages)

@Roberts, J. T. and Parks, B. C. 2010. A “shared vision”? Why inequality should worry us. In: O’Brien, Karen, Asunción Lera St Clair, and Berit Kristoffersen, (eds.) 2010. Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security. (65-82) New York: Cambridge University Press. Available online (18 pages)

Scoville-Simonds, M., Jamali, H., and Hufty, M. 2019.  The Hazards of Mainstreaming: Climate change adaptation politics in three dimensions. World Development 125 Available online (10 pages)

Shi, L. et a. 2016. Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research. Nature Climate Change  6: 131–137. Available online (7 pages)  

@Steffen, W.S., Rockstr?m, J. and Costanza, R. 2011. How Defining Planetary Boundaries Can Transform Our Approach to Growth Solutions. Solutions: For a sustainable and desirable future. 2, 3: 1-8 Available online (8 pages)

@Tibbs, H. 2011. Changing Cultural Values and the Transition to Sustainability. Journal of Futures Studies, 15, 3: 13 – 32. Available online (20 pages)

@Vermeulen, S.J., Campbell, B.M., and Ingram, J.S.I., 2012. Climate Change and food systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37 (1), 195–222. Available online (28 pages) 

@Vijay, V., Pimm, S. L., Jenkins, C. N. and Smith. S. J. 2016. The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss. PLOS ONE. 11, 7: 1-19 Available online (19 pages)

@ Weber, A. and Hildegard, K. 2015. Towards Cultures of Aliveness: Politics and Poetics in a Postdualistic Age, an Anthropocene Manifesto. The Solutions Journal 6, 5. 58-65. Available online (8 pages)

@Zoomers, A. 2010. Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: seven processes driving the current global land grab. Journal of Peasant Studies. 37, 2: 429-447. (19 pages) Available online

 

 

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