Reading list
I. Global Environmental Change: An Overview
*Hassan, Rashid, Scholes, Robert, and Neville Ash (eds). 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends. Findings of the Conditions and Trends Working Group of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. Island Press, Washington. Chapter 1: "Summary: Ecosystems and their Services around the Year 2000" (pages 2-23) (22 pages)
*McCarthy et al. 2001. Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. "Summary for Policymakers" (pages 3-17) (15 pages)
*Steffen, W. et al. 2004. Global Change and the Earth System. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Chapter 3: "The Anthropocene Era: How Humans are Changing the Earth System" (pages 81-141) (61 pages)
*United Nations. 2002. Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August – 4 September 2002. United Nations, New York. Chapter 1: "Introduction" (67 pages)
II: Discourses on Global Environmental Change
*Adger, W. Neil, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Katrina Brown, and Hanne Svarstad. 2001. "Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses". Development and Change 32: 681-715. (35 pages)
*Berkhout, Frans, Leach, Melissa, and Ian Scoones. 2001. "Shifting perspectives in environmental social science". Pages 1-31 in F. Berkhout, M. Leach and I. Scoones (eds), Negotiating Environmental Change: New Perspectives from Social Science. Edgar Elgar, London. (31 pages)
*Braun, Bruce. 2006. "Towards a New Earth and a New Humanity: Nature, Ontology, Politics". Pages 191-222 in N. Castree and D. Gregory (eds), David Harvey: A Critical Reader. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. (32 pages)
*Bryant, Raymond L. 2001. "Political Ecology: A Critical Agenda for Change?" Pages 151-169 in N. Castree and B. Braun (eds), Social Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. (19 pages)
*Demeritt, David. 2001a. "The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91: 307-337. (31 pages)
*Forsyth, Tim. 2003. Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science. Routledge, London. Chapter 1: "Political ecology and the politics of environmental science" (pages 1-23) (22 pages) Chapter 2: "Environmental Science and Myths" (pages 24-51) (28 pages) Chapter 4: "Social framings of environmental science" (pages 77-102) (26 pages)
*Jaques, Peter. 2006. "The Rearguard of Modernity: Environmental Skepticism as a Struggle of Citizenship". Global Environmental Politics 6:76-101. (26 pages)
*Lomborg, Bj?rn. 2001. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1: "Things are getting better" (pages 3-33). (31 pages) Chapter 2: "Why do we hear so much bad news?" (pages 34-42) (9 pages)
*Turner, Billie L. II, et al. 2003. "A Framework for Vulnerability Analysis in Sustainability Science". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) 100 (14): 8074-8079. (6 pages)
III. Assessing the Consequences of Global Environmental Change
*Balmford, Andrew, et al. 2002. "Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature". Science 297: 950-953. (4 pages)
*Barnett, Jon. 2003. "Security and Climate Change", Global Environmental Change 13: 7-17. (11 pages)
*Brown, Donald. 2003. "The Importance of Expressly Examining Global Warming Policy Issues through an Ethical Prism." Global Environmental Change, 13: 229-234. (7 pages)
*Conca, K. 2002. "Consumption and Environment in a Globalizing Economy". Pages 133-154 in T. Princen, M. Maniates, and K. Conca (eds). Confronting Consumption. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (22 pages)
*Costanza, Robert, et al. 1997. "The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital". Nature 387: 253-260. (8 pages)
*Gasper, Des. 2005. "Securing Humanity: Situating ‘Human Security as Concept and Discourse" Journal of Human Development 7(2):221-245. (25 pages)
*Newell, Peter. 2005. "Race, Class and the Global Politics of Environmental Inequality". Global Environmental Politics 5: 70-94. (25 pages).
*O’Brien, Karen L., and Robin M. Leichenko. 2000. "Double Exposure: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change within the Context of Economic Globalization". Global Environmental Change 10: 221-232. (13 pages)
*O'Brien, Karen. L., and Robin. M. Leichenko. 2003. "Winners and Losers in the Context of Global Change". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93: 89-103. (15 pages)
*O’Brien, Karen L. 2006. "Are we Missing the Point? Global Environmental Change as an Issue of Human Security". Global Environmental Change 6:1-3. (3 pages)
*Turner, Billie L. II, et al. 2003. "Illustrating the Coupled Human-Environment System for Vulnerability Analysis: Three Case Studies". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) 100 (14): 8080-8085. (5 pages)
IV: Responding to Global Environmental Change
*Cline, William R. 2004. "Climate Change". Pages 13-43 in B. Lomborg (ed), Global Crises, Global Solutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (31 pages)
*Kemp, René and Saeed Parto. 2005. "Governance for Sustainable Development: Moving from Theory to Practice". International Journal of Sustainable Development 8:12-30. (19 pages)
*Newell, Barry, et al. 2005. "A conceptual template for integrative human–environment research". Global Environmental Change 15: 299-307. (9 pages)
*Ravetz, Jerry. 2005. "The Post-Normal Science of Safety". Pages 43-53 in M. Leach, Ian Scoones, and Brian Wynne (eds.), Science and Citizens. Zed Books, London. (11 pages)
*Rayner, Steve. 2006. "What Drives Environmental Policy?" Global Environmental Change 6: 4-6. (3 pages)
*Robinson, John. 2004. "Squaring the Circle? Some Thoughts on the Idea of Sustainable Development". Ecological Economics. 48: 369-384. (16 pages)
*Schipper, Lisa and Mark Pelling. 2006. "Disaster Risk, Climate Change and International Development: Scope for, and Challenges to, Integration". Disasters 30:19-38. (20 pages)
*Williams, Marc. 2005. "The Third World and Global Environmental Negotiations: Interests, Institutions and Ideas". Global Environmental Politics 4: 48-69. (22 pages)
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