Reading List:
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)
Adger, W.N. 2006. Vulnerability. Global Environmental Change 16: 268-281. (14 pages)
Barnett, Jon. 2003. Security and Climate Change, Global Environmental Change 13: 7-17. (11 pages)
Conca, K. 2002. Consumption and Environment in a Globalizing Economy. Pages 133-154 in Princen et al. (eds). Confronting Consumption. (22 pages)
Folke, Carl. 2006. Resilience: The Emergence of a Perspective for Social–ecological Systems Analyses. Global Environmental Change 16: 253-267. (15 pages)
Gallopin, G.C. 2006. Linkages between vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity. Global Environmental Change 16: 293-303 (11 pages)
Gasper, Des. 2005. Securing Humanity: Situating ‘Human Security as Concept and Discourse” Journal of Human Development 7(2): 221-245 (34 pages)
IPCC. 2007. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Available on internet: Summary for Policymakers (pages 3-17) (15 pages) (To be distributed in class)
Kemp, René and Saeed Parto. 2005. Governance for Sustainable Development: Moving from Theory to Practice. International Journal of Sustainable Development 8:12-30. (9 pages)
Leichenko, Robin M. and Karen L. O’Brien. 2008. Double Exposure: Global Environmental Change in an Era of Globalization. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press. (Selected chapters) (To be distributed in class)
Newell, Barry, et al. 2005. A Conceptual Template for Integrative Human–environment Research. Global Environmental Change 15: 299-307. (9 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. 2006. Are we Missing the Point? Global Environmental Change as an Issue of Human Security. Global Environmental Change 16:1-3. (3 pages)
O’Brien, Karen L. and Robin Leichenko. 2006. Climate Change, Equity, and Human Security. Die Erde 137: 223-240. (18 pages)
O’Brien, Karen L. and Robin Leichenko. 2007. Human Security and Climate Change: Promoting Sustainable Adaptation. Background paper prepared for the UNDP Human Development Report 2007. (To be distributed in class)
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)
Smit, B. and J. Wandel. 2006. Adaptation, Adaptive Capacity and Vulnerability. Global Environmental Change 16: 282-292. (11 pages)
Solecki, W.D. and R. M. Leichenko. 2006. Urbanization and the Metropolitan Environment: Lessons from New York and Shanghai. Environment 48 (4): 8-23. (16 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)
Williams, Marc. 2005. The Third World and Global Environmental Negotiations: Interests, Institutions and Ideas. Global Environmental Politics 4: 48-69. (22 pages)
Young, O. et al. 2006. The Globalization of Socio-Ecological Systems: An Agenda for Scientific Research. Global Environmental Change 16: 304-316. (13 pages)
All texts are in compendium unless otherwise is marked.
The compendium will be available at Kopiutsalget at the bookstore Gnist Akademika at Blindern. Please bring your student card.