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Climate Politics & Science-Policy
ENVS 5100/GEOG 5100-06

Week 2

COMPONENT I: FRAMEWORKS

January 21

  • reading summary #1 due by 10AM Wednesday via email
  • news/blog items #1

Readings:     

Weston, D. (2013) The Political Economy of Global Warming: the Terminal Crisis Routledge, London, Chapter 2: State of the Planet, Kyoto and Technical Fixes, pp. 3-13.

Weston, D. (2013) The Political Economy of Global Warming: the Terminal Crisis Routledge, London, Chapter 4: The Global Political Economy and Global Warming, pp. 14-41.

Newell, P. and Paterson, M. (2010) Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, Chapter 1: Introducing Climate Capitalism, pp. 1-10.

Newell, P. and Paterson, M. (2010) Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, Chapter 2: Histories of Climate, Histories of Capitalism, pp. 11-35.