International Environment and Sustainable Development

7.5 credits

Reading list, Bachelor's level, 2SK106

A revised version of the reading list is available.

Main group 1

  • Elliot, Jennifer, An Introduction to Sustainable Development, Routledge, 2001Compulsory
  • Kates, Robert; Parris, Thomas M; Leiserowitz, Anthony A, What is sustainable development?, Environment, 2005, Download hereCompulsory
  • Engfeldt, Lars-Göran, From Stockholm to Johannesburg and beyond: the evolution of the international system for sustainable development governance and its implications, Stockholm, Government Offices of Sweden, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2009Compulsory
  • Local responses to too much and too little water in the Greater Himalayan RegionCompulsory
  • Rotberg, Fiona, Social Networks and Adaptation in Rural Bangladesh, Climate and Development, 2010Compulsory
  • Parkin, Sara, The positive deviant: sustainability leadership in a perverse world, 1. ed., Washington, D.C., Earthscan, 2010Compulsory
  • Shue, Henry, Human Rights, Climate Change, and the Trillionth Ton, The Ethics of Global Climate Change, 2001Compulsory
  • Gardiner, Stephen, A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption, Environmental Values, 2006Compulsory
  • Escobar, Arturo AE, Beyond the Search for a Paradigm? Post-Development and beyond., Development=Developpement=Dessarollo, 2000Compulsory
  • Biermann, Frank; Boas, Ingrid, Preparing for a Warmer World. Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees, Global Environmental Politics, 2010Compulsory
  • McAdam, Jane, Swimming Against the Tide: Why a Climate Change Displacement Treaty Is Not the Answer, International Journal of Refugee Law, 2011Compulsory
  • Myers, Norman, Environmental Refugees: A Growing Phenomenon of the 21st Century, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2001Compulsory
  • Tacoli, Cecilia, Crisis or Adaptation? Migration and Climate Change in a Context of High Mobility, Environment and Urbanization, 2009Compulsory
  • Loomis, Terrence, Indigenous Populations and Sustainable Development: Building on Indigenous Approaches to Holistic, Self -Determined Development, World Development, 2000Compulsory
  • Van Zeijl-Rozema, Annemarie et al., Governance for sustainable development: A framework, Sustainable Development, 2008Compulsory
  • Ostrom, Elinor, Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990Compulsory
  • Ostrom, Elinor, The drama of the commons, Washington, DC, National Academy Press, c2002Compulsory
  • Molinas, J.R., The Impact of Inequality, Gender, External Assistance and Social Capital on Local-Level Cooperation, World Development, 1998Compulsory
  • Varughese, G; Ostrom, E, The Contested Role of Heterogeneity in Collective Action: Some Evidence from Community Forestry in Nepal, World Development, 2001Compulsory
  • Dietz, Thomas; Ostrom, Elinor; Stern, Paul, The struggle to govern the commons, Science, 2003, Download hereCompulsory
  • Kelsey, Jack B.; Kousky, Carolyn; Sims, Katharine R.E., Designing payments for ecosystem services: Lessons from previous experience with incentive-based mechanisms, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008, Download hereCompulsory
  • Ribot, Jesse, Choice, Recognition and the Democracy Effects of Decentralisation, ICLD, Download hereCompulsory
  • Parker, Ian, The Poverty Lab, The New Yorker, 2010Compulsory
  • Smith, R. J. et al., Governance and the loss of biodiversity, Part of: Nature, vol. 426, no. 6962, 2003, p. 67–70Compulsory
  • Arrow, Kenneth J., Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment, Stockholm, Beijer International Institute, 1995Compulsory
  • Costanza, Robert, The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital, Part of: Nature, vol. 387, 1997, p. 253–260Compulsory
  • Jackson, Tim, Prosperity without growth: economics for a finite planet, London, Earthscan, 2009Compulsory
  • Fantu, Cheru, Chinese and Indian Engagement in Africa: Competitive or mutually reinforcing strategies, Journal of International Affairs, 2011Compulsory

* Compulsory

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