Syllabus/achievement requirements

* = the article is in a compendium

@ = the article is available online

The following two books are required reading:

Bhaskar et al. 2010. Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming knowledge and practice for our global future. London: Routledge. (248 pages)

Thompson, M. 2008. Organising and Disorganising: A Dynamic and Non-Linear Theory of Institutional Emergence and its Implications. Devon: Trierarchy Press. (147 pages)

Articles in compendium:

*Christakis, J. and J. Fowler. 2009. The Whole is Great Chapter 9 (pages 287-305) in Connected: The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How they Shape Our Lives. London: HarperCollins. (19 pages)

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

*Heifetz, R., Grashow, A., and M. Linsky. 2010. The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World. Chapter 2 (27 pages)

*Holling, C.S., Gunderson, L.H. and D. Ludwig. 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. (22 pages)

*Holling, C.S. and L.H. Gunderson. 2002. Resilience and Adaptive Cycles Chapter 2 (pages 25-62 ) in Gunderson and Holling (eds) Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. (33 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)

*Hulme, M. 2009. Beyond Climate Change Chapter 10 (pages 322-365) in Why we Disagree about Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (43 pages)

@Jasanoff, S. 2010. A New Climate for Society Theory, Culture and Society. 27: 233-253. (21 pages)

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

@Miller, R. 2007. Futures Literacy: A Hybrid Strategic Scenario Method. Futures 39: 341-362. (21 pages)

*O’Brien, K.L., A.L. St Clair and B. Kristoffersen. 2010. Towards a New Science on Climate Change. Pages 215-227 in K. O’Brien, A.L. St. Clair and B. Kristoffersen (editors), Climate Change, Ethics, and Human Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (13 pages)

@O’Brien, K. 2010. Responding to Environmental Change: A New Age for Human Geography? Progress in Human Geography: 1-10. (10 pages)

*O’Brien, Karen. 2010. Responding to Climate Change: The Need for an Integral Approach. Pages 65-78 in S. Esbj?rn-Hargens (ed.). Integral Theory in Action: Applied, Theoretical, and Critical Perspectives on the AQAL Model. New York: SUNY Press. (14 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)

@Sharma, M. 2007. Personal to Planetary Transformation. Kosmos Journal. http://www.kosmosjournal.org/kjo/articles/articlessub2/personal-planetary.shtml

*= 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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