Syllabus/achievement requirements

* = the article is in a compendium

@ = the article is available online

The following two books are required reading:

Norgaard, Kari. (2011): Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. (244 pages).

Urry, John.(2011): Climate Change & Society. Chapter 1 -3 (pages 1-47), Chapter 9-10 (139-168) in Polity: Cambridge, UK. (77 pages)

?Articles in compendium:

* Bornstein, D. (2007): How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. Oxford University Press: Oxford [Chapter 1, pages 1-10: Restless People]. (10 pages)

* Brown, Barrett. (2005): Integral Communications for Sustainability. Kosmos 4(2): 4-8. (5 pages)

* Cornell, Sarah and Jenneth Parker. (2010): “Critical realist interdisciplinarity: A researchagenda to support action on global warming”. Pages 25-34 in Bhaskar et al. (eds.) 2010. Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming knowledge and practice for our global future. London: Routledge. (10 pages)

* Esbj?rn Hargens, S.(2010): “An Integral Overview of Climate Change: Why Truth is not Enough” in Journal of Integral Theory and Practice 5(1):1-42. (42 pages)

* Hamilton, Clive. (2010): Requiem for a Species. Earthscan: London [Chapter 7, The Four-Degree World and Chapter 8: Reconstructing a Future], 190-226. (37 pages)

* Hildyard, Nicholas. (2010): “‘Scarcity’ as a Political Strategy: Reflections on Three Hanging Children”. Chapter 8 (pages 149-164) in L. Mehta (ed) The Limits to Scarcity. Earthscan: London. (16 pages)

* Holling, C.S., Gunderson, L.H. and D. Ludwig. (2002): “In Quest of a Theory of Adaptive Change” Chapter 1 (pages 3-24) in Gunderson and Holling (eds) Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. Washington: Island Press (22 pages)

* Hulme, M. 2009. “The Social Meaning of Climate” Chapter 1 (pages 1-34) in Why we Disagree about Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (34 pages)

* Kegan, R. and K. Lahey. (2009): “Reconceiving the Challenge of Change“ Chapter 1 (pages 11-30) in Immunity to Change. Boston: Harvard Business Press. (20 pages)

* Senge, P et al.. (2010): The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World. London: Nicholoas Brealey Publishing. (Pages 1-67) (68 pages)

* Wendt, Alexander. (2010): “Flatland: Quantum Mind and the International Hologram”. Chapter 11 (pages 279-310) in M. Albert, L.-E. Cederman and A. Wendt: New Systems Theories of World Politics. Palgrave: London. (32 pages)

?Articles available online:

@ Beymer-Farris, Betsy A. and Thomas J. Bassett. (2011): “The REDD menace: Resurgent protectionism in Tanzania’s mangrove forests”. Global Environmental Change_ 22,2. (10 pages) available online

@ Cameron, Emilie S. (2012): “Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic”. Global Environmental Change 22,1. (12 pages) available online

@ Flood, R.L. (2001): “The Relationship of ‘Systems Thinking’ to Action Research”. Chapter 10 (pages 117-128) in P. Reason and H. Bradbury (eds) The Handbook of Action Research. Sage: London. (12 pages) available online

@ Hernes, G. (2011): “Hot Topic – Cold Comfort: Climate Change and Attitude Change”. Norden Top Level Research Initiative. Oslo: Nordforsk. (Part IV: Explanations of Attitude Change (pages 111-142) (33 pages) "available online": http://www.nordforsk.org/no/publikasjoner/hot-topic-cold-comfort-climate-change-and-attitude-change

@ Kiehl, Jeffrey. (2011): “Lessons from Earth’s Past”. Science 331: 158-159. (2 pages) available online

@ Meadows, D. (1999): “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System”. Sustainability Institute. available online (19 pages)

@ O’Brien, Karen. (2012): Global Environmental Change (II): From Adaptation to Deliberate Transformation: Progress in Human Geography (10 pages) available online

@ O’Brien, K. 2011. “Responding to Environmental Change: A New Age for Human Geography?” Progress in Human Geography: 1-10. (10 pages) available online

@ Perrings C, Naeem S, Ahrestani FS, Bunker DE, Burkill P, Canziani G, Elmqvist T, Fuhrman JA, Jaksic FM, Kawabata Zi, Kinzig A, Mace GM, Mooney H, Prieur-Richard A-Hln, Tschirhart J and Weisser W. (2011): “Ecosystem services, targets, and indicators for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity”. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9(9):512-520 (7 pages) available online

@ Steffen, Will, Johan Rockstr?m and Robert Costanza. 2011. “How Defining Planetary Boundaries Can Transform our Approach to Growth”. Solutions 2(3): available online. (6 pages)

738 pages

*= in compendium

The compendium will be available at Kopiutsalget at the bookstore Gnist Akademika at Blindern. Please bring your student card.

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