SOSGEO4301 - Syllabus/achievement requirements

* = the article is in a compendium

@ = the article is available online

How to find an article on the reading list

@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

@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

* Eriksen, Siri E H; Inderberg, Tor H?kon; O'Brien, Karen; Sygna, Linda. Introduction: Development as usual is not enough. Pages 1-18 in  Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Transforming Paradigms and Practices. Routledge 2015 (18 pages)

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

@Fl?ttum, K., Gasper, D. and St. Clair, A.L. (2015). Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC “Worlds”—A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report. Global Environmental Change 38:118-129. (12 pages). Available online

@Gardiner, S. (2004) Ethics and Global Climate Change. Ethics. 2004. 114(3): 555-600. (46 pages) http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/382247?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

*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)

*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 Synthesis Report. (32 pages) 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)

@L?vbrand, E. , Strippple, J. and Wiman, B. (2009). Earth System governmentality: Reflections on science in the Anthropocene. Global Environmental Change 19: 7-13. (7 pages). Available online.

@Marino, E. and Ribot, J. (2012) Adding insult to injury: climate change and the inequities. Global Environmental Change 22 (2), 323–328. (6 pages). Available online.

*Marks, R.B. (2012) 'Controlling' Nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-Present. Chapter 7 in China: its environment and history, Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. 438 pages. [UHS 304.20951 Mar] (66 pages)

*McNeill, J. "Chinese Environmental History in World Perspective." Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. Ed. Mark Elvin, Ts’ui-jung Liu. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 31-52.

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

@Moser, S. (2014). Whither the Heart (to Heart)? Prospects for a Humanistic Turn in Environmental Communication as the World Changes Darkly. Chapter 6.2 in Hansen, A. and R. Cox (eds.) Handbook on Environment and Communication. London, Routledge. Preprint available online at: http://susannemoser.com/documents/Moser_Whitherthehearttoheart_acceptedpre-pubdraft.pdf

*Moser, S. (2016) Reflections on climate change communication research and practice in the second decade of the 21st century: What more is there to say? WIRES Climate Change.

@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. 2011. Responding to Environmental Change: A New Age for Human Geography? Progress in Human Geography: 1-10. (10 pages). Available online

O’Brien, K. and Selboe E. (2015) Climate Change as an Adaptive Challenge. Chapter 1 in The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Will be available by August 2015)

O’Brien, K. (2016) Climate change and social transformations: Is it time for a quantum leap? WIREs Climate Change doi: 10.1002/wcc.413. Available at: https://qsymposium.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/obrien-2016-wiley_interdisciplinary_reviews__climate_change.pdf

*Peterman, William. (1994) Quantum Theory and Geography: What can Dr. Bertlmann Teach us? Professional Geographer 46(1):1-9. (9 pages)

@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

@Shue, H.  (2013) "Climate Hope: Implementing the Exit Strategy," Chicago Journal of International Law: Vol. 13: No. 2, Article 6. Available at: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol13/iss2/6

Sieferle, Rolf Peter (1990) "The Energy System. A Basic Concept of Environmental History", in: Brimblecombe, P., and Pfister, C. (eds), The Silent Countdown (New York: Springer), pp. 9-20. (Addition: 4 pages "Postscript" that Sieferle wrote for our Norwegian translation.) (Will be available by August 2015)

@Sieferle, Rolf Peter 2011. ?Cultural Evolution and Social Metabolism?, Geografiska Annaler. Series B. 93(4), 315-324.

@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

@St.Clair, A.L. (2014) The four tasks of development ethics at times of a changing climate, Journal of Global Ethics 10( 3):283–291. (9 pages) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449626.2014.974111?scroll=top&needAccess=true

@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

*Wendt, Alexander (2015) Preface to a quantum social science. Pages 1-36 in Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (37 pages)

@Zehr, Stephen (2015). The sociology of global climate change. WIRES Climate Change 6: 129-150. Available online

 

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

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