SGO4301 - Syllabus/achievement requirements

* = the article is in a compendium

@ = the article is available online

@Adger, WN et al. (2009) Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change? Climatic Change 93:335-354. Available online

@Adger, W.N. et al. (2013) Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation. Nature Climate Change 3: 112-117. Available online

@Bassett, T.J. and Fogelman, C. (2013) Deja vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature. Geoforum 48: 42-53. Available online

@Biagini, B. et al. (2014) A typology of adaptation actions: A global look at climate adaptation actions financed through the Global Environment Facility. Global Environmental Change (12 pages) Available online

@Brown, K. (2014) Global environmental change I: A social turn for resilience? Progress in Human Geography 38(1): 107-117. Available online

@Brown, K., O’Neill, S. and Fabricius, C. (2013) Social science understandings of transformations. Pages 100-106 in the World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments. ISSC, UNESCO. Available at http://www.worldsocialscience.org/documents/wss-report-2013-part-1.pdf#page=37

@Butzer, K.W. and G. H. Endfield (2012) Critical perspectives on historical collapse. PNAS 109: 3628-3631. (4 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  (12 pages). Available online

@Cardinale, B.J. et al. 2012. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486: 59-67. (9 pages). Available online

@Flood, R.L. 2010. “The Relationship of ‘Systems Thinking’ to Action Research. Systemic Practice and Action Research (23), 269-284. (16 pages). Available online

@Gabrys, J. and Yusoff, K. (2011) “Arts, sciences and climate change: Practices and politics at the threshold”, Science as Culture, 21(1): 1-24.  (24 pages). Available online

*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) (on fronter)

@Hedlund-de Witt, A. (2011) ‘The rising culture and worldview of contemporary spirituality: a sociological study of potentials and pitfalls for sustainable development’, Ecological Economics, 70: 1057–1065. (9 pages). Available online

*Hetherington, R. and Reid, R.G.B. 2010. The Climate Connections: Climate Change and Modern Evolution. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1: Introduction (pages 1-12) (12 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)

@IPCC (2014) Summary for Policy Makers from Working Group II: Impacts, Vulnerability, Adaptation. Available online, 31 March 2014. Available online

@Ireland, P. and McKinnon, K. (2013) Strategic localism for an uncertain world: A postdevelopment approach to climate change adaptation. Geoforum 47: 158-166. Available online

*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)

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

@Nielsen, J. ?. and Sejersen, F. 2012. Earth System Science, the IPCC and the problem of downward causation in human geographies of Global Climate Change. Danish Journal of Geography 112(2): 194-202. (9 pages) Available online

@Norgaard, Kari Marie. 2006. 'We Don't Really Want to Know' The Social Experience of Global Warming: Dimensions of Denial and Environmental Justice" Organization and Environment 19(3): 347-470. Available online

*Pelling, M., Manuel-Navarrete, D.,  and Redclift, M. (2012) “Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism” Chapter 1 in  M. Pelling, D. Manuel-Navarrete and M. Redclift (eds), Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Change to Reclaim Self, Society and Nature, Routledge.

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

*O'Brien, K. (2009) Do Values Subjectively Define the Limits to Climate Change Adaptation? Pages 164-180 in W.N. Adger, I. Lorenzoni and K. O'Brien (eds.) Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

@O’Brien, K. (2013) What’s the problem? Putting global environmental change into perspective. Pages 8 – 15 in the World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments. ISSC, UNESCO. 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

@Park, S.E. et al. (2012) Informing adaptation responses to climate change through theories of transformation. Global Environmental Change 22: 115-126. Available online

@Rowson, J. (2011) “Transforming behavior change: beyond nudge and neuromania”, RSA Report, November 2011. (29 pages). Available online

@Schlitz, M.M., Vieten, C. and Miller, E.M. (2010) “Worldview transformation and the development of social consciousness”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17 (7-8): 18-36.  (19 pages). Available online

@Shove, E. (2010) Beyond the ABC: climate change policy and theories of social change”, Environment and Planning A, 42: 1273-1285. (13 pages). Available online

@Steffen, W., Crutzen, P.J., NcNeill, J.R. (2007) The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelmingthe Great Forces of Nature. Ambio 36(8): 614-621. (8 pages) Available online

@Swyngedouw, E. (2010) Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 27(2–3): 213–232. (20 pages). Available online

@Thornes, J.E. (2008) A Rough Guide to Environmental Art. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 3: 391-411. Available online

@Willow, A. 2014. The new politics of environmental degradation: un/expected landscapes of disempowerment and vulnerability. Journal of Political Ecology 21: 237-257. Available online

@Wise, R. M. et al. (2014) Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response. Global Environmental Change. Available online

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

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