ASTK18019U Core subject: The Politics of Environment and Climate

(Illustrative)

• Neil Carter (2018) The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 3^rd edition (Cambridge University Press).
• Noel Castree, Mike Hulme and James D. Proctor, eds., 2018. Companion to Environmental Studies. London: Routledge
• Javeline, D. 2014. The most important topic political scientists are not studying: adapting to climate change. Perspectives on Politics, 12(2), 420-434. [15 pp]
• Dressler, A. and E. Parsons. (2020). Global Climate Change: A new type of environmental problem, in The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A guide to the debate, 3e. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-34.
• Hickman, T., Partzsch, L., Pattberg, P., and Weiland, S. 2018. Introduction: A political science perspective on the Anthropocene, in The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science (T. Hickmann, L. Partzsch, P. Pattberg, and S. Weiland, eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 1-12.
• Biermann, F. 2021. The future of ‘environmental’ policy in the Anthropocene: Time for a paradigm shift. Environmental Politics, 30(1-2), pp.61-80.
• Lövbrand, E., Mobjörk, M. and Söder, R. 2020. The Anthropocene and the geo-political imagination: Re-writing Earth as political space. Earth System Governance, 4, p.100051
• Tønder, L. (2020). Power in the Anthropocene. In Om magt I den antropocaene tidsalder: en introduktion. (English translation)
• Newell, P. ‘What is Green Politics?’ in Global Green Politics (2019). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-48
• Clapp, J. and Dauvergne, P. 2011. Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change, in Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, pp. 1-18
• John  Dryzek, ‘Making Sense of Earth’s Politics: A discourse approach’, in The Politics of the Earth, 4^th edition (2021), pp. 1-24.
• Arts, B. and Buizer, M., 2009. Forests, discourses, institutions: A discursive-institutional analysis of global forest governance. Forest policy and economics, 11(5-6), pp.340-347.
• Bäckstrand, Karin & Eva Lövbrand (2019) The road to Paris: Contending climate governance discourses in the post-Copenhagen era. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 21(5): 519-532
• Vanhulst, J. and Beling, A.E., 2014. Buen vivir: Emergent discourse within or beyond sustainable development? Ecological Economics, 101, pp.54-63.
• Kate Raworth, A Doughnut for the Anthropocene: humanity's compass in the 21st century, The Lancet: Planetary Health, 1(2): E48-E49.
• Pulver S. et al. 2022. Introduction: Foundations for Socio-Environmental Research. In Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research: Legacy readings and commentaries (W.R Burnside, S. Pulver, K.J. Fiorella, M.L. Avolino, and S.M. Alexander, eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-12
• Reo, N. and Parker, A., 2013. Re-thinking colonialism to prepare for the impacts of rapid environmental change. Climatic Change, 120(3): 671-682.
• Carl Folke et al., ‘Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere’, Ambio 50: 834–869 (2021)
• Lövbrand, E. 2014. ‘Knowledge and the Environment,’ in Advances in International Environmental Politics (M. Betsill, K. Hochstetler, and D. Stevis, eds.), pp. 161-184.
• Pielke Jr, R.A., 2007. The honest broker: making sense of science in policy and politics. Cambridge University Press., pp. 1-7.
• Marion Suiseeya, K.R., O’connell, M.G., Leoso, E., Defoe, M.S.B.N., Anderson, A., Bang, M., Beckman, P., Boyer, A.M., Dunn, J., Gilbert, J. and Hester, J., 2022. Waking from Paralysis: Revitalizing Conceptions of Climate Knowledge and Justice for More Effective Climate Action. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 700(1), pp.166-182.
• Karen Litfin, ‘Planetary Politics', in John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell, Gerard Toal (eds.) A Companion to Political Geography (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 470-482
• Franchini, M.A. and Inoue, C.Y.A., 2020. Socio-environmentalism. In International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference (A. Tickner and K. Smith, eds.), London: Routledge: pp. 296-314.
• Gupta, J., Van Der Leeuw, K. and De Moel, H., 2007. Climate change: a ‘glocal’problem requiring ‘glocal’action. Environmental Sciences, 4(3), pp.139-148.
• Shangrila Joshi, 'North–South relations: colonialism, empire and international order', in Paul Harris (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, 2e (Routledge, 2022), pp. 309-321
• Abson DJ, Fischer J, Leventon J et al (2016) Leverage points for sustainability transformation: institutions, people, knowledge. Ambio 46(1): 30–39.  https:/​/​doi.org/​10.1007/​s13280-016-0800-y [10 pp]
• O’Brien, K., 2018. Is the 1.5 C target possible? Exploring the three spheres of transformation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 31, pp.153-160. [8 pp]
• Milkoreit, M., Hodbod, J., Baggio, J., Benessaiah, K., Calderón-Contreras, R., Donges, J.F., Mathias, J.D., Rocha, J.C., Schoon, M. and Werners, S.E., 2018. Defining tipping points for social-ecological systems scholarship—an interdisciplinary literature review. Environmental Research Letters, 13(3), p.033005. [12 pp]
• Menton, M., Larrea, C., Latorre, S., Martinez-Alier, J., Peck, M., Temper, L. and Walter, M., 2020. Environmental justice and the SDGs: From synergies to gaps and contradictions. Sustainability Science, 15, pp.1621-1636
• Gereke, M. and Brühl, T., 2019. Unpacking the unequal representation of Northern and Southern NGOs in international climate change politics. Third World Quarterly, 40(5), pp.870-889
• Martinez-Alier, J., Temper, L., Del Bene, D. and Scheidel, A., 2016. Is there a global environmental justice movement?. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 43(3), pp.731-755.
• McGregor, D., Whitaker, S., and Sritharan, M. 2020. Indigenous Environmental Justice and Sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 43: 35-40
• Deborah McGregor. 2009. Honouring Our Relations: An Anishnaabe Perspective on Environmental Justice. In Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada (J. Agyeman, P. Cole, R. Haluza-Delay, and P. O’Riley, eds.). Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 27-41
• Jane Bennet. 2005. In Parliament with Things. In Radical Democracy: Between abundance and lack (L. Tønder and L. Thomassen, eds.), Machester: Manchester University Press, pp. 133-148
• Romand Coles (2016) Visionary Pragmatism: Radical and Ecological Democracy in Neoliberal Times (Duke University Press), ch. 3 pp. 115-160
• Bruno Latour (2018) Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Polity Press)
• Lars Tønder (2017) ‘Five Theses for Political Theory in the Anthropocene’, Theory & Event 20(1): 129-136
• Scoones, I., Stirling, A., Abrol, D., Atela, J., Charli-Joseph, L., Eakin, H., Ely, A., Olsson, P., Pereira, L., Priya, R. and van Zwanenberg, P., 2020. Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 42, pp.65-75.
• O’Brien, K. and Sygna, L., 2013. Responding to climate change: the three spheres of transformation. Proceedings of transformation in a changing climate, pp. 16-23. [8 pp]
• Bernstein, S. and Hoffmann, M., 2018. The politics of decarbonization and the catalytic impact of subnational climate experiments. Policy Sciences, 51(2), pp.189-211.
• Stevenson, Hayley (2018) ‘Multilateral Diplomacy – Sustainable Development’, Global Environmental Politics, pp. 107-138.
• Keohane, Robert O. & Victor, David G. (2016) Cooperation and discord in global climate policy, Nature Climate Change, 6, 570–575.
• J. Sowers, S. VanDeveer and E. Weinthal, eds. 2021. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Helge Jörgens, Christoph Knill, and Yves Steinebach, eds. (2023). Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy. London: Routledge.
• Gabrielson, T., Hall, C., Meyer, J.M. and Schlosberg, D., 2016. Introducing environmental political theory. In The Oxford handbook of environmental political theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-12.