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)
Dalby, S. 2009. Security and Environmental Change. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 13-172 (160 pages).
*Davis, Mike. (2006). Planet of Slums. London: Verso. Chapter 1: The Urban Climacteric (pages 1-19) and Chapter 6: Slum Ecology (pages 121-150) (49 pages)
*Godschalk, D.R. (2003) Urban Hazard Mitigation: Creating Resilient Cities. Natural Hazards Review 4(3):136-143. (8 pages)
*Grothmann, T. & Patt, A. (2005) Adaptive capacity and human cognition: The process of individual adaptation to climate change. Global Environmental Change 15, 199-213. (15 pages)
*Hartmann, B. 2010. "Rethinking the Role of Population in Human Security". In: Matthew, R. A., J. Barnett, B. McDonald, K. L. O’Brien, Global Environmental Change and Human Security. Cambridge: The MIT Press, pp. 193-214. (22 pages)
*Hurrell, Andrew. (2006) "The State." in A. Dobson and R. Eckersley (eds.) , Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pages 165-182(18 pages)
*Kjellén, Bo. (2008). "The New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development." in B. Kjellén, A New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Global Change. London: Routledge. Pages 29-49(21 pages)
Leichenko, Robin M. and Karen L. O’Brien. (2008). Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures. New York: Oxford University Press. (121 pages)
*Linklater, Andrew. (2006) "Cosmopolitanism" in A. Dobson and R. Eckersley (eds.), Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pages 109-127 (19 pages)
*Loorbach, D., R. van der Brugge, M. Taanman. 2008. "Governance in the energy transition: Practice of transition management in the Netherlands". Int. J. Environmental Technology and Management, Vol. 9, Nos. 2/3, pp. 294-315. (21 pages)
*Lovelock, J. 2009. "To the Next World". In: The Vanishing Face of Gaia. A Final Warning. London: Penguin Group, pp. 149-162. (14 pages).
*Lynch, Amanda H., Lee Tryhorn, and Rebecca Abramson. (2008). "Working at the Boundary: Facilitating Interdisciplinarity in Climate Change Adaptation Research". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) Feb 2008: 169-179. (11 pages)
*Maniates, Michael. (2002). "Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?" in T. Princen et al. (eds). Confronting Consumption. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Pages 43-66 (24 pages)
*Nelson, D. R. 2009. Ch. 1. "Conclusions: Transforming the world". In: Adger, W. N., I. Lorenzoni , K. L. O’Brien (eds), Adapting to Climate Change. Thresholds, Values, Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 491-500. (10 pages)
*Newell, Peter. (2005). "Race, Class and the Global Politics of Environmental Inequality". Global Environmental Politics 5: 70-94. (25 pages).
*Patt, G.P, D. Schröter, R. J. T. Klein , A. C. de la Vega-Leinert. 2009. "Vulnerability Research and Assessment to Support Adaptaion and Mitigation: Common Themes from the Diversity of Approaches". In: Patt, G.P, D. Schröter, A. C. de la Vega-Leinert, R. J. T. Klein (eds), Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change. London: Earthscan, pp. 1-25. (26 pages)
*Reddy, A. K. N. 1994. "Technology, Development and the Environment: An Analytical Framework". In: Guha, R. (eds), Social Ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 321-345. (24 pages).
*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)
*Steffen, W. et al. (2004). Chapter 3: "The Anthropocene Era: How Humans are Changing the Earth System" in Global Change and the Earth System. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (pages 81-141) (61 pages)
*Weber, Elke U. (2006). "Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet)". Climatic Change 77:103-120. (18 pages)
*Young, Abby. (2007). "Forming Networks, Enabling Leaders, Financing Action: The Cities for Climate Protection Campaign". In Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, ed. Susanne C. Moser and Lisa Dilling, 383–398. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (16 pages)
Total 752 pages
OPTIONAL READING:
Adger, W. N., I. Lorenzoni , K. L. O’Brien. 2009. "Adaptation now". In: Adger, W. N., I. Lorenzoni , K. L. O’Brien (eds), Adapting to Climate Change. Thresholds, Values, Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-22. (22 pages)
Barnett, J., R. A. Matthew, K. L. O’Brien. 2009. "Global Environmental Change and Human Security: An Introduction". In: Matthew, R. A., J. Barnett, B. McDonald, K. L. O’Brien, Global Environmental Change and Human Security. Cambridge: The MIT Press, pp.3-32. (31 pages)
Eriksen, S.E.H. and K.L. O’Brien 2007. "Vulnerability, Poverty and the Need for Sustainable Adaptation Measures". Climate Policy 7: 337-352. (16 pages)
Hayward, Bronwyn and Karen L. O’Brien. "Security of What, for Whom? Rethinking Social Contracts in a Changing Climate". Chapter 12 in K. O’Brien, A.L. St Clair and B. Kristoffersen (editors), Climate Change, Ethics, and Human Security. 2010, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (15 pages)
O’Brien, K.L., Eriksen, S., Nygaard, L. and Schjolden, A. 2007. "Why Different Interpretations of Vulnerability Matter in Climate Change Discourses". Climate Policy 7: 73-88. (14 pages)
O'Brien, Karen. 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. (17 pages)
O’Brien, K. and J. Wolf. 2010. "A Values-based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. (15 pages).
O’Brien, Karen. 2010. “Responding to Climate Change: The Need for an Integral Approach.” Chapter 1 in S. Esbjørn-Hargens (ed.). Integral Theory in Action: Applied, Theoretical, and Critical Perspectives on the AQAL Model. New York: SUNY Press. (15 pages).
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