Main books
Buckingham, Susan and Mike Turner (editors). 2008. Understanding Environmental Issues. London: Sage Publications. (222 pages) (Chapter 5 (42 pages) is not included)
Dryzek, John. 2012. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (236 pages)
Leichenko, Robin M. and Karen O’Brien. 2008. Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures. New York: Oxford University Press. (113 pages)
Articles & book chapters:
@Barbier, E. 2011. The policy challenges for green economy and sustainable economic development. Natural Resources Forum 35: 233-245. (13 pages) Available online
@Beck, U. 2010. Climate for Change, or How to Create a Green Modernity? Theory, Culture & Society 27: 254-266. Available online
@Dearing, JA et al. 2014. Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems. Global Environmental Change 28: 227-238. Available online
@Díaz S, Fargione J, Chapin FS III, Tilman D (2006) Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being. PLoS
Biol 4(8): e277. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040277 Available online
@Dietz et al. (2007) Driving the human ecological footprint. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 5(1):13-18. [Sociology] Available online
@Dobson A. 2007. Environmental citizenship: Towards sustainable development. Sustainable Development 15(5), 276-285. (9 pages) Available online
*Ehrhardt-Martinez, K. and Schor, J.B. et al. 2015. Climate Change and Consumption. Pages 93-106 in R. Dunlap and R. Brulle, Climate and Society, London. Routledge.
*Lockwood, M. 2015. The Political Dynamics of Green Transformations. Pages 86-101 in I. Scoones et al. “The Politics of Green Transformations.” London: Routledge/Earthscan.
@Lopez-Carr, D. And J. Burgdorfer. 2013. Deforestation Drivers: Population, Migration, and Tropical Land Use. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development Available online
*Manning, Martin. 2011. The Climate for Science. Chapter 2 (pp. 32-48) in The Governance of Change: Science, Economics, Politics and Ethics. London: Polity. (17 pages)
*Mjøset, L. 2002. - "The "Nature" of social science". Author's translation of a paper published in Norwegian as: "Samfunnsvitenskapens natur", pp. 321-347 in Tor Arve Benjaminsen & Hanne Svarstad, editors, Samfunnsperspektiver på miljø og utvikling, 2nd ed., Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2002. [Unpublished English translation to be included in compendium] [Sociology]
*Moser, S. 2013. Individual and community empowerment for human security. Pages 279-293 in L. Sygna et al., A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action, London: Earthscan (14 pages)
*Robbins, P. 2012. Political Ecology, Chapter 1: Political versus Apolitical Ecologies (we used this chapter in an earlier edition in the pensum a few years ago) [Geography]
@Ryghaug M, Sørensen KH, Naess R. 2011. Making sense of global warming: Norwegians appropriating knowledge of anthropogenic climate change. Public Underst Sci. 2011 Nov;20(6):778-95. Available online
@Shove (2012) Putting practice into policy: reconfiguring questions of consumption and climate change. Contemporary Social Science iFirst: 1-15. [Sociologist] Available online
@Steffen, WS, J Rocstöm, R Costanza al. 2011: How Defining Planetary Boundaries Can Transform Our Approach to Growth Solutions 2(3) Available online
*Speth, G. 2010. “A new consciousness” Chapter 10 in The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. (17 pages )
@Tibbs, H. 2011. “Changing Cultural Values and the Transition to Sustainability”. Journal of Futures Studies, March 2011, 15(3): 13 – 32. (20 pages) Available online
@Zoomers, A. 2010. “Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: seven processes driving the current global land grab”. Journal of Peasant Studies, 37:2, 429-447. (19 pages) Available online