Climate Change Politics & Policy
ENVS 4100/3521

Week 4

COMPONENT I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION

February 7

climate change & disasters – signals & noise?

guest speaker: Jessica Weinkle

Furedi, F. (2007) The changing meaning of disaster, Area 39(4), 482-489.

Schneider, S.H., Rosencranz, A., Mastrandrea, M.D. and Kuntz-Duriseti, K. (eds.) (2010) Climate Change Science and Policy. Island Press: Washington, D.C.

• Chapters 7-8, 12

COMPONENT II: NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY/POLITICS

February 9

with sustainability for all? how to measure ‘success’

written Assignment #1 due in class

Hulme, M. (2009) Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

• Chapter 8

Boykoff, M. (ed.) (2010) The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey Routledge/Europa: London.

• Chapter 3

Schneider, S.H., Rosencranz, A., Mastrandrea, M.D. and Kuntz-Duriseti, K. (eds.) (2010) Climate Change Science and Policy. Island Press: Washington, D.C.

• Chapters 13, 14, 23