Climate Change Politics & Policy
ENVS 4100/3521

Week 5

COMPONENT II: NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY/POLITICS

February 14

sustainable development, adaptation & equity issues

brief Activity #1 in-class preparations

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

• Chapter 6

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

• Chapter 6

Klinsky, S. and Dowlatabadi, H. (2009) Conceptualizations of justice in climate policy, Climate Policy 9, 88-108.

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 24 & 25

 

February 16

a quick history of international cooperation in the face of climate challenges

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

• Chapter 2

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 21 & 26

Morgan, W., Kandlikar, M., Risbey, J. and Dowlatabadi, H. (1999) Why conventional tools for policy analysis are often inadequate for problems of global change, Climatic Change 41, 271- 281.