Syllabus/achievement requirements

* = the text is in the compendium

@= the text is available online

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

Main books

Ghosh, A. 2016. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (162 pages) Available online

Leichenko, R. M. and O’Brien, K. 2018. Climate Change and Society. Manuscript to be published by Polity Press (manuscript will be distributed in January).

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) 

¤Dryzek, J. 2013. Industrial society and beyond: Ecological modernization. Chapter 8 (Pages 165-183) in Dryzek, John. 2013. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses Oxford: Oxford University Press. (19 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

¤Liverman, D. 2015. Reading climate change and climate governance as political ecologies. Chapter 23 (pages 303-319) In: Perreault, Tom, Gavin Bridge, and James McCarthy, (eds.) 2015. The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. London?; New York, NY: Routledge. (17 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

¤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)

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)

@Castán Broto, V. and Bulkeley, H. 2013. A Survey of Urban Climate Change Experiments in 100 Cities. Global Environmental Change 23, 1. 92–102. Available online (11 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?” Available online (4 pages)

@Hochachka, G. 2009. An Integral Framework for Community Development. Chapter 2 in: Hochachka, Gail. 2009.  Developing Sustainability, Developing the Self. (38-70) Victoria, British Columbia: University of Victoria. Available online (33 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. 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)

@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)

@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) 

@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

Other

O’Brien, K. 2018. Is the 1.5°C Target Possible? Exploring the Dynamics of Social Transformations. Manuscript to be published by COSUST (will be distributed in January)

 

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