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 Your 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
• Banik, Dan (2010) ¡°Poverty and Elusive Development¡± Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, pp. 1-46
• 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 ¨C 157.
• Geus, Marius de. (1999). "Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society". Utrecht: International Books, chapters 1-2, pp. 29-56
• 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
• 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
• Murphy, P.C. (2005) ¡°What a Book Can do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring¡±, University of Massachusets, pp. 199-221
• Nordaard, Kari Marie (2001), ¡°Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life¡±, Cambridge, Mass. And London: The MIT Press, chapter Introduction, pp. 1-12
• Scott, J.C. 1998 Chapter 1. "Nature and Space"  in "Seeing like a state. How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed". Yale University Press, (pp 11-52)
• Syse. K. L. (2015) ¡°Celebrity chefs, ethical food consuption and the good life¡± in Syse, K.L. and Mueller. M.L. (eds.) Sustainable consumption and the good life : interdisciplinary perspectives, Routledge, ch. 10, pp. 165-182
• 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 ¨C 26.
• Wilhite, H. and J. Norgard. 2004. ¡°Equating efficiency with reduction: A self-deception in energy policy¡±. Energy and Environment 15 (3): pp. 991-1011.

Articles available online

You must be logged on via the University of Oslo server in order to access the following articles. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The articles will also be available as pdf. files in Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.

• Angelsen, A. and D. McNeill (2012) ¡±The Evolution of REDD+¡± in Angelsen, A. et. al (eds) ¡°Analysing REDD+: challenges and choices¡±.
• Averchenkova, Alina, et al. (2014), Taming the beasts of 'burden-sharing': an analysis of equitable mitigation actions and approaches to 2030 mitigation pledges, Policy Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
• Baer, P., Athanasiou, T., Kartha, S. (2008), The right to development in a climate constrained world -  The greenhouse development rights framework, 2. ed. Executive summary. Pp 13 ¨C 25.
• Banik, Dan (2011) ¡®Growth and Hunger in India¡¯, Journal of Democracy, 22 (3): 90-104. (2011)
• Banik, Dan (2012) ¡®Human Rights for Human Development: The Rhetoric and the Reality¡¯, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 30(1): 4-35.
• Berry, N.S. (2006) Kaqchikel Midwives, Home Births, and Emergency Obstetric Referrals in Guatemala: Contextualizing the Choice to Stay at Home, Social Science and Medicine, 62(8), pp. 1958-1969.
• Bra¨¹tigam, D. (2011) ¡°China in Africa: What can Western donors learn?¡± Report for Norfund. pp. 1-18
•  Brown, T.M., M. Cueto, et al. (2006) The World Health Organization and the Transition from ¡®International¡¯ to ¡®Global¡¯ Public Health, American Journal of Public Health, 96(1), pp. 62-72.
• Buse, K. and A.M. Harmer (2007) Seven Habits of Highly Effective Global Public-Private Health Partnerships: Practice and Potential, Social Science and Medicine, 64(2), pp. 259-271.
• Clemens et.al (2007) The Trouble of the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of AID and Development Success. World Development Vol 35,No.5 pp.735-751.
• Cornwall, A., E. A. Harrison, and A. Whitehead (2007). ¡°Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: the struggle for interpretive power in gender and development¡±. In Development and Change, Vol 38(1), pp.1-20. .
• Darnton, Robert (1982) "What Is the History of Books?" Daedalus, 111(3), pp. 65-83.
• Fairhead, J. and Leach, M. (1995). False forest history, complicit social analysis. Rethinking some west African environmental narratives. World Development 6:1023-1035.
• German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2011), World in transition ¨C A social contract for sustainability, Summary for policy-makers, WBGU, Berlin.
• Godfray, H.C.J., et al. (2010) Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People, Science, 327(5967), pp. 812-818
• Grimm, S., Humphrey, J., Lundsgaarde, E. and de Souza, S. J. (2009) ¡°European Development Cooperation to 2020: Challenges by New Actors in International Development¡±, Seventh Framework program, No. 4, EDC2020 (ch.1-3, p. 4-24),
• Hansen, A & Nielsen, K.B. (2014), ¡°Cars of Future Past in Vietnam and India¡±, Tvergastein, 4 (1), pp. 72-79.
• Heald, S. (2006) Abstain or Die: The Development of HIV/AIDS Policy in Botswana, Journal of Biosocial Science, 38(1), pp. 29-41.
• Howell, S. (2014) ¡®No RIGHTS¨CNo REDD¡¯: Some Implications of a Turn Towards Co-Benefits in Forum for Development Studies
• IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 - Synthesis Report, Summary for policymakers
• Jackson, C. (1993) Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development. World Development. Volume 21, Issue 12, December 1993, s. 1947-1963
• Janes, C.R. and K.K. Corbett (2009) Anthropology and Global Health, Annual Review of Anthropology, 38, pp. 167-183
• Labont¨¨, R. and Schrecker, T.(2007), Globalization and social determinant of health: Introduction and methodological background. (part 1 of 3) Globalization and health 2007 3-5
• Labont¨¨, R. and Schrecker, T. (2007), Globalization and social determinants of health. The role of the global marketplace. (part 2 of 3) Globalization and health 3-6
• Labont¨¨, R. and Schrecker, T. (2007), Globalization and Social Determinants of health equity in global governance (part 3 of 3) Globalization and health 3-7
• Li, X., Banik, D., Tang, L. and Wu, J. (2014), "Difference or Indifference: China's Development Assistance Unpacked",  IDS Bulletin, 45: 22¨C35
• Khan, M. R. and M. Ashiqur Rahman (2007) ¡°Partnership approach to disaster management in Bangladesh: a critical policy assessment¡±, Natural Hazards 41:359¨C378.
• Manyena, S. B. (2012), Disaster and Development Paradigms: Too Close for Comfort? Development Policy Review, 30: 327¨C345
• Murdoch, J. and M. Miele, (1999). ¡°¡®Back to Nature¡¯: Changing ¡®Worlds of Production¡¯ in the Food Sector¡±. Sociologia Ruralis, 39, 465-483.
• Olson, R. (2000) ¡°Toward a Politics of Disaster: Losses, Values, Agendas, and Blame¡±, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 18(2): 265¨C287.
• Pacheco, P., Aguilar-St?en, M., Borner, J., Etter, A., Putzel, L. and Vera Diaz, M.C.  (2011) Landscape Transformation in Tropical Latin America: Assessing Trends and Policy Implications for REDD+, Forests, 2, pp. 1-29
• Qureshi et al. (2014), "Public policies for improving food and nutrition security at different scales", Food Security, April 2015, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp 393-403
• Skutsch, M.M. and McCall, M.K. (2010) Reassessing REDD: Governance, Markets and the Hype Cycle: An Editorial Comment, Climatic Change, 100 (3-4), pp. 395¨C402.
• Soper, Kate. 2008. Alternative Hedonism, Cultural Theory and the Role of Aesthetic Revisioning, Cultural Studies, 22:5, 567-587
• Standal, Karina and Winther, Tanja (forthcoming) "Empowerment through Energy? Impact of Electricity on Care Work Practices and Gender Relations", in Forum for Development Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, 2015. (available in Fronter).
• UNDP (2013) Human Development Report 2013: The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World, New York: UNDP, chapter 2, pp. 43-60
• World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our Common Future, Chapter 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press)