Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

David G. Victor: Global Warming Gridlock. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Chapters 1,7 and 8 (86pp)

To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus

Auld, Greame and Lars H. Gulbrandsen (2013). “Private Regulation in Global Environmental Government”. In Robert H. Falkner (forthcoming): The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy. Oxford: Blackwell.

Conca, Ken (2006). Governing Water. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 1 (pp. 1-34).

Haas, P. & Casey Stevens (2011). Organized Science, Usable Knowledge, and Multilateral Environmental Governance. In Lidskog, Rolf & Göran Sundqvist, eds. Governing the Air. The Dynamics of science, policy, and citizen interaction. MIT press. Chapter 5, pp. 125-161

Hardin, Garrett (1977). “Living on a Lifeboat”. In Garrett Hardin & John Baden (red.): Managing the Commons. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman (pp. 261-279).

Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. (1999). Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapters 3 and 5 (pp. 73-106).  

Miles, Edward L. et al. (2002). Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Chapter 18 (pp. 467-474).

Mitnick, Barry M. (1980). The Political Economy of Regulation. New York: Columbia University Press. Chapter 6 (pp. 321-363).

Oberthür, Sebastian and Olav S. Stokke  (eds.) (2011). Managing Institutional Complexity – Regime Interplay and Global Institutional Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 12.

Skodvin, Tora (2000). “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”. In Steinar Andresen et al., Science and Politics in International Environmental Regimes. Manchester: Manchester University Press (pp. 146-180).

Stokke, Olav S. (2012). Disaggregating International Regimes: A New Approach to Evaluation and Comparison. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 8.

Underdal, Arild (2002). “One Question, Two Answers”. Chapter 1 in Edward L. Miles et al., Environmental Regime Effectiveness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Young, Oran R. (2008). “Building Regimes for Socioecological Systems: Institutional Diganostics.” In O.R. Young, L.A. King, and H. Schroeder (eds.), Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (pp.115-144).

Downloadable articles, books and other texts

You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.

Aid, Christian (2015). Green Alliance, Greenpeace, WWF, RSPB Paris. “Getting a Global Agreement on Climate Change”.

Bang, Guri and Miranda Schreurs (2011). „A Green New Deal: Framing US Climate Leadership“. In K. W. Würzel and J. Connelly (eds.), The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics. New York: Routledge

Barrett, Scott and Robert Stavins (2003): ^“Increasing Participation and Compliance in International Climate Change Agreements”. International Environmental Agreements, 3 (4): 349–376.

Bernauer, Thomas (2013). “Climate Change Policy”. Annual Review of Political Science, 16: 421-448.

Breitmeier, Helmut; Oran R. Young, and Michael Zürn (2006). Analyzing International Environmental Regimes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 4 (pp. 113-190).

Breitmeier, Helmut; Arild Underdal, and Oran R. Young (2011). “The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Comparing and Contrasting Findings from Quantitative Research”. International Studies Review, 13 (4): 579-605.

Buchan, David (2012). “The Energiewende – Germany’s Gamble. Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

Chayes, Abram and Antonia H. Chayes (1993). “On Compliance”. International Organization, 47 (2): 175–205.

Conybeare, John A. (1980). “International Organization and the Theory of Property Rights”. International Organization, 34 (3): 307-344

Downs, George W., David M. Rocke, and Peter N. Barsoom (1996). “Is the Good News about Compliance Good News about Cooperation?” International Organization, 50 (3): 379-406.

Downs, George W. and Michael A. Jones (2002). “Reputation, Compliance, and International Law”. Journal of Legal Studies, XXXI: S95-S114.

Elgström, Ole. “Legitimacy, Credibility and Coherence – Perceptions of EU Roles in Global Climate Change Negotiations,” RSCAS 201506 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Global Governance Programme-155, European University Institute Working Papers.

European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies, European Parliament, Policy Department A: Economic and Social Policy: ”The Development of Climate Negotiations in View of Lima (DOP 20), Study for the ENVI Committee”.

European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies, European Parliament, Policy Department A: Economic and Social Policy: ”US Climate Change Policy

Falkner, Robert. “Getting a Deal on Climate Change: Obama’s Flexible Multilateralism”. London School of Economics IDEA, pp. 37-41

GOP Congressional Leaders Denounce US-China Deal on Climate Change, Washington Post, Nov. 12, 2014.

Hovi, Jon; Mads Greaker, Cathrine Hagem, and Bjart Holtsmark (2012). “A Credible Compliance Enforcement System for the Climate Regime”. Climate Policy, 12 (6): 741-754.

Hovi, Jon; Tora Skodvin, and Stine Aakre (2013). «Can Climate Change Negotiations Succeed?» Politics and Governance 1(2): 138-150. Open Access

Hovi, Jon; Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal (2009). “Implementing Long-Term Climate Policy: Time Inconsistency, Domestic Politics, International Anarchy”. Global Environmental Politics, 9 (3): 20-39.

Jordan, Andrew; Harro van Asselt, Frank Berkhout, Dave Huitema, and Tim Rayner (2012). “Understanding the Paradoxes of Multilevel Governing: Climate Change Policy in the European Union”. Global Environmental Politics, 12(2): 41-64.

Mitchell, Ronald B. (1994). “Regime Design Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance”. International Organization, 48 (3): 425-458.

Mitchell, Ronald B. (2008). “Evaluating the Performance of International Institutions: What to Evaluate and How to Evaluate It?” In O.R. Young, L.A. King, and H. Schroeder (eds.), Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (pp. 79-114).

Obama Build Environmental Legacy with 1970 Law, by Coral Davnenport, NY Times, Nov. 26, 2014.

Schreurs, Miranda (2013). “Orchestrating a Low-Carbon Energy Revolution Without Nuclear: German’s Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis”. Theoretical Inquires in Law, 14(1): 83-108

Schreurs, Miranda (2012a). “The Politics of Phase-Out”. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 68(6): 30-41

Schreurs, Miranda (2012b). „Breaking the Impasse in the International Climate Negotiations: The Potential of Green Technologies“. Energy Policy, 48: 5-12.

Schreurs, Miranda and Dörte Ohlhorst. „NIMBY and YIMBY: Movements for and Against Renewable Energy in Germany and the United States“. Forthcoming in C. Hager and M. A. Haddad (eds.), NIMBY is Beautiful: Local Activism and Environmental Innovation in Germany and Beyond. Berghahn Press. Draft – not for further distribution. Comments welcome

Schreurs, Miranda and Yves Tiberghien (2007). «Multi-level Reinforcement: Explaining European Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation». Global Environmental Politics, 7(4): 19-46.

Secret Talks and a Private Letter: How the US-China Climate Deal was Done, The Guardian, Nov. 12, 2014

Stokke, Olav S. (2004). “Trade Measures and Climate Compliance: The Interplay Between WTO and the Marrakech Accord”. International Environmental Agreements, 4 (4): 339-357.

Underdal, Arild and Taoyuan Wei (2015). “Distributive fairness: A mutual recognition approach”. Environmental Science & Policy, 51: 35-44. Open Access

ZHANG, Haibin, “China and International Climate Change Negotiations,” March 2013, WeltTrends Online-Dossier

Suggested reading

Barrett, Scott (2003). Environment & Statecraft. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Benedick, Richard E. (1991). Ozone Diplomacy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hasenclever, Andreas; Peter Mayer & Volker Rittberger (1997). Theories of International Regimes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lofdahl, Corey L. (2002). Environmental Impacts of Globalization and Trade. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Steffen, Will et al. (2004). Global Change and the Earth System: Executive Summary. Stockholm: IGBP.

Young, Oran R. (ed.) (1999). The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Young, Oran R.; Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder (eds.) (2008), Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (remaining chapters).