Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

W. J. Burroughs (2007): Climate change. A multidisciplinary approach, second edition, Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1-7 and 10-11.

Compendium

Hussein, A.M. (2000): Principles of Environmental Economics, Routledge, London & New York, Chapter 5.

Putnam,R. (1988): “Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games” in International Organization 42 (3): 427-460

Schneider and Lane (2006): "An Overview of “Dangerous” Climate Change" in Schellnhuber et al.: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Cambridge University Press.

Schreurs, M.A. and Tiberghien, Y. (2007): "Multi-Level Reinforcement: Explaining European Union Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation": Global Environmental Politics 7 (4), November. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wilhite, H., Shove, E., Lutzenhiser, L. and W. Kempton (2000): "The Legacy of Twenty Years of Energy Demand Management: We Know More about Individual Behavior but next to Nothing about Demand." in Jochem, E., Sathaye, J. and Bouille, D. (eds): Society, Behaviour and Climate Change Mitigation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, London.

Wilhite, H. and J. Norgard(2004): “Equating efficiency with reduction: A self-deception in energy policy” in Energy and Environment 15(3), 991-1011.

Articles online

Angelsen, A. et al (eds) 2012. Analysing REDD+: Challenges and Choices CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia. Pages 1-66.

Angelsen, A. (ed), 2008. Moving Ahead with REDD: Issues, Options and Implications. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. Pages 11-41 and 107-118.

Barrett, Scott. 2010. A Portfolio System of Climate Treaties in J.E. Aldy and R.N. Stavins (eds.), Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Implementing Architectures for Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 240-270

Christoff, Peter. 2010. Cold climate in Copenhagen: China and the United States at COP15, Environmental Politics, 19 (4), page 637 —656

Kelman, Ilan, James Lewis, Jean-Christophe Gaillard and Jessica Mercer, 2011. Participatory action research for dealing with disasters on islands. Island Studies Journal, 6 (1): pp. 59-86 Url: http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-6-1-2011-Kelman-et-al_0.pdf

Lewis, James and Ilan Kelman, 2010. Places, people and perpetuity: Community capacities in ecologies of catastrophe. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 9 (2): pp. 191-220 Url: http://www.acme-journal.org/vol9/LewisKelman10.pdf

Pacheco, P., et al., 2011. Landscape Transformation in Tropical Latin America: Assessing Trends and Policy Implications for REDD+. Forests, 2, page 1-29.

Articles to be handed out on lecture:

DeSombre, E.R., 2010. "The United States and Global Environmental Politics: Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism.", In Axelrod, R.S., S.D. VanDeveer and D.L. Downie (eds). The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy. CQ Press

Victor, D.G., 2011. "Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet.", Cambridge University Press. Chapters 2, 3 and 4

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