Metod

• Arbetsmaterial
• Svensson Torsten; Teorell Jan, Att fråga och att svara, Liber, 2007

Tragedy of the Commons? Climate Change, Energy and the Politics of Resource management

• Articles (Readings for SEMINAR 1 (Hans Blomkvist)Hardin, Garrett, 1968. The Tragedy of the Commons, Science, 162:1243–8.Holdren, John, 2008. Science and technology for sustainable well-being, Science, 319:424–434.Lemos, Maria Carmen & Arun Agrawal, 2006. Environmental Governance, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 31:297–325.Lewis, Joanna, 2007. Technology acquisition and innovation in the developing world: Wind turbine development in China and India, Studies in Comparative International Development, 42:208–232.Ostrom, Elinor, 1990. Governing the Commons. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 6. Sagar, Ambuj & Sivan Kartha, 2007. Bioenergy and Sustainable Development?, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 32:131–67. Scholz, John & Ramiro Berardo, Brad Kile, 2008. Do networks solve collective action problems? Credibility, search, and collaboration, The Journal of Politics, 70:393–406.UNDP, 2007. Human Development Report 2007/08: Fighting Climate Change. Human Solidarity in a Divided World. Pp 1–69. Available at: www.undp.orgThe following are not part of course readings, but provide excellent (and long) list of references of high value if you will write your C thesis on this topic: Poteete, Amy & Elinor Ostrom, 2008. Fifteen years of empirical research on collective action in natural resource management, World Development, 36:176–195.Pretty, Jules & Hugh Ward, 2001. Social capital and the environment, World Development, 29:209–227Readings for SEMINAR 2 (Simon Tyrberg)Eriksen, P B & T Ackermann, H Abildgaard, P Smith, W Winter, J Rodriguez Garcia, 2005. System Operation with High Wind Penetration, IEEE power & energy magazine. Nov/Dec, pp.65–74.Jan's Volvo is rolling on Hydrogen. Dagens Nyheter February 14th, 2009.Leijon, M., Skoglund, A., Waters, R., Rehn, A., Lindahl, M, 2008. On the Physics and Economics of Renewable Electric Energy Suorces - part I utilization, to be published in World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) transactions.Weisser, Daniel, 2006. A guide to life-cycle green-house gas (GHG)emissions from electric supply technologies, Energy, 32:1543–1559.Readings for SEMINAR 3 (Christer Karlsson)Christoff, Peter. 2006. 'Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Towards an Effective 'Climate Coalition of the willing'', International Affairs, 82:5, 831–860.Gupta, Joyeeta & Lasse Ringius. 2001. 'The EU's Climate Leadership: Reconciling Ambition and Reality', International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 1:2, 281–299.Schreurs, Miranda A. & Yves Tiberghien. 2007. 'Multi-Level Reinforcement: Explaining European Union Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation', Global Environmental Politics, 7:4, 19–46.Vogler, John. 1999. 'The European Union as an Actor in International Environmental Politics', Environmental Politics, 8:3, 24–48.Readings for SEMINAR 4 (Charles Parker)Prospects for international cooperationChristoff, Peter (2006). 'Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Towards an effective climate coalition of the willing,' International Affairs, Volume 82, Number 5.Victor, David G. (2006). 'Toward Effective International Cooperation on Climate Change: Numbers, Interests and Institutions', Global Environmental Politics, Volume 6, Number 3.Aldy, Joseph E. and Stavins, Robert N. (2007) 'Architectures for an international global climate change agreement: lessons for the international policy community,' in J. Aldy and R. Stavins (eds) Architectures for Agreement, Cambridge University Press.Climate change as a security issueNordås, Ragnhild and Gleditsch, Nils Petter (2007). 'Climate change and conflict,' Political Geography, Volume 26, Number 6.Barnett, Jon and Adger, W. Neil (2007). 'Climate change, human security and violent conflict?' Political Geography, Volume 26, Number 6.Recommended reading: For those who would benefit from an overview of the environment and world politics please see: Volger, John (2005). 'Environment,' in B. White, R. Little and M. Smith Issues in World Politics, Palgrave.OrVolger, John (2008)'Environmental issues,' in J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds) The Globalization of World Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press., pp.350–368)
• Ostrom, Elinor, Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990

Egen undersökning (uppsatsarbete)/Independent Study (thesis work)

Ingen obligatorisk litteratur utöver den studenten använder för uppsatsarbetet.

No compulsory literature except the literature the student needs to carry out the thesis work.