Climate Change Politics & Policy
ENVS/GEOG 3022
Week 1
Tuesday, July 10 (class 11am-noon)
- introductions & review schedule, goals, objectives, logistics, expectations, plans for the course
- sign up for Twitter account (if you don’t already have one)
- twitter discussion (share twitter handles) follow 10 climate politics & policy people/orgs
- discussion of things to look for when reading articles/chapters
Wednesday, July 11 (class 11am-noon)
- news tweets #1
- country assignments
- co-facilitation signups
Required Readings
Hulme, M. (2009). Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Preface, Chapter 1 & 2 (pp. xxv–71)
Leggett, J. (2015). The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and politics on the front lines of climate and clean energy Creative Commons: Mountain View, CA. Chapters 1, 2 & 3
Thursday, July 12
- co-facilitation #1
Required Readings
Hulme, M. (2009). Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Chapters 3 (pp. 72-108)
Ehrhardt-Martinez, K., Rudel, T. K, Norgaard, K., and Broadbent, J. (2015). Mitigating climate change, in Climate Change and Society (Dunlap, Riley and Brulle, Robert [eds]) Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 199-234
Friday, July 13
- news tweets #2
Required Readings
Mayrhofer, J. P. and Gupta, J. (2016). The science and politics of co-benefits in climate policy. Environmental Science & Policy, 57, 22-30.
Victor, D.G. and Jones, B.D. (2018). Undiplomatic Action Brookings Institute, paper 1, February.
Leggett, J. (2015). The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and politics on the front lines of climate and clean energy Creative Commons: Mountain View, CA. Chapters 4, 5 & 6
