Syllabus

Book

Bjørkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (2012) Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies (Oslo: Unipub).

Compendium

The following articles is available in a compendium that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Student ID Card.

• Adams, W.H. (2009) “The Dilemma of Sustainability”, in Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (London: Routledge), pp. 1-25.
• Adams, W.M. (2009) Chapter 9. Sustainable forests? in Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World. Routledge, New York. pp 239-274
• Ellen, Roy (1999) Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram, in Tania Li (ed.) Transforming the Indonesian Uplands. Marginality, Power and Production. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 131 – 157.
• Goldemberg J. and Lucon O. (2010) “Energy: The Facts”, in Energy, Environment and Development, 2nd ed. (London: Earthscan), pp. 101-179.
• Harrison, Lawrence  and Samuel  Huntington (2011),  Culture  Matters.  How Values Shape Human Progress  (New York: Basic Books), pp. 2-29.
• Jasanoff, S. (2004) “Heaven and Earth: The Politics of Environmental Images”, in Jasanoff, S and M.L.Martello (eds.) Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance MIT Press.  Pages 31 - 54
• Lanham, Richard (2006) The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press) pp. xi-41.
• Moser, S.C , Lisa Dilling (eds.) (2007) Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-27
• Pearson, R. (2000) “Rethinking Gender Matters in Development”, in T. Allen and A. Thomas (eds.) Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 383-402.
• People’s Health Movement, Medact, et al. (2008) “The Gates Foundation”, in Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report (London: Zed Books), pp. 240-259.
• Scott, J.C. 1998 Chapter 1. Nature and Space (pp 11-52) in Seeing like a state. How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press
• Thomas, A. (2000) “Meanings and Views of Development”, in T. Allen and A. Thomas (eds.) Poverty and Development into the 21st Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 23-48.
• West, Paige (2006)  Chapter 1, “New Guinea-New York” in Conservation is our Government Now, Duke University Press, pp 1 – 26.

Articles available online

You need to use a computer which is on the UiO network to access the following articles. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. Please send an e-mail to studentinfo@sum.uio.no if there are any dead links.  

• Adger, N.W. (2006) Vulnerability, Global Environmental Change, 16 (3), pp. 268-281.
• Angelsen, A. and D. McNeill (2012) ”The Evolution of REDD+” in Angelsen, A. et. al (eds) “Analysing REDD+: challenges and choices”.
• Baer, P., Athanasiou, T., Kartha, S. (2008), The right to development in a climate constrained world -  The greenhouse development rights framework, 2. ed. Executive summary. Pp 13 – 25.
• Banik, Dan (2012) ‘Human Rights for Human Development: The Rhetoric and the Reality’, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 30(1): 4-35.
• Banik, Dan (2011) ‘Growth and Hunger in India’, Journal of Democracy, 22 (3): 90-104. (2011)
• Berkes, Fikret (2007) “Understanding uncertainty and reducing vulnerability: lessons from resilience thinking”, Natural Hazards, 41(2): 283-295.
• Berry, N.S. (2006) Kaqchikel Midwives, Home Births, and Emergency Obstetric Referrals in Guatemala: Contextualizing the Choice to Stay at Home, Social Science and Medicine, 62(8), pp. 1958-1969.
• Bodansky (2011), W(h)ither the Kyoto Protocol? Durban and Beyond.
• Braütigam, D. (2010): ‘China, Africa and the International Aid Architecture’, Africa Development Bank, 1-43
• Brown, T.M., M. Cueto, et al. (2006) The World Health Organization and the Transition from ‘International’ to ‘Global’ Public Health, American Journal of Public Health, 96(1), pp. 62-72.
• Buse, K. and A.M. Harmer (2007) Seven Habits of Highly Effective Global Public-Private Health Partnerships: Practice and Potential, Social Science and Medicine, 64(2), pp. 259-271.
• Clemens et.al (2007) The Trouble of the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of AID and Development Success. World Development Vol 35,No.5 pp.735-751.
• Corkin, L. (2012) “Chinese Construction Companies in Angola: A local linkages perspective”, Resources Policy 37 (4), 475-483.
• Costa, L., Rybski, D., Kropp, J.P. (2011), A human development framework for CO2 reductions, Plos One, 6(12), December.
• Darnton, Robert (1982) "What Is the History of Books?" Daedalus, 111(3), pp. 65-83.
• Denning, G., et al. (2009) Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution, Plos Biology, 7(1), pp. 2-10.
• Ellis, F. and N. Mdoe (2003) Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reduction in Tanzania, in World Development 31(8), pp. 1367-1384.
• Fairhead, J. and Leach, M. (1995). False forest history, complicit social analysis. Rethinking some west African environmental narratives. World Development 6:1023-1035.
• German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2011), World in transition – A social contract for sustainability, Summary for policy-makers, WBGU, Berlin.
• Geus, Marius de. (1999). Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the Sustainable Society. Utrecht: International Books, chapters 1-2, pp. 29-56
• Godfray, H.C.J., et al. (2010) Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People, Science, 327(5967), pp. 812-818.
• Heald, S. (2006) Abstain or Die: The Development of HIV/AIDS Policy in Botswana, Journal of Biosocial Science, 38(1), pp. 29-41.
• Janes, C.R. and K.K. Corbett (2009) Anthropology and Global Health, Annual Review of Anthropology, 38, pp. 167-183
• Lewis, T. (2008). Transforming citizens? Green politics and ethical consumption on lifestyle television. Continuum, 22, 227-240.
• Khan, M. R. and M. Ashiqur Rahman (2007) “Partnership approach to disaster management in Bangladesh: a critical policy assessment”, Natural Hazards 41:359–378.
• Murdoch, J. and M. Miele, (1999). “‘Back to Nature’: Changing ‘Worlds of Production’ in the Food Sector”. Sociologia Ruralis, 39, 465-483.
• Nordaard, Kari Marie (2001), Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life. Cambridge, Mass. And London: The MIT Press, chapter Introduction, pp. 1-12
• Olson, R. (2000) “Toward a Politics of Disaster: Losses, Values, Agendas, and Blame”, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 18(2): 265–287.
• Pacheco, P., Aguilar-Støen, M., Borner, J., Etter, A., Putzel, L. and Vera Diaz, M.C.  (2011) Landscape Transformation in Tropical Latin America: Assessing Trends and Policy Implications for REDD+, Forests, 2, pp. 1-29.
• Rival, L (2003) The Meanings of Forest Governance in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Oxford Development Studies, 31(4), pp. 479-501.
• Ronald Labontè and Ted Schrecker (2007), Globalization and social determinant of health: Introduction and methodological background. (part 1 of 3) Globalization and health 2007 3-5
• Ronald Labontè and Ted Schrecker (2007), Globalization and social determinants of health. The role of the global marketplace. (part 2 of 3) Globalization and health 3-6
• Ronald Labontè and Ted Schrecker (2007), Globalization and Social Determinants of health equity in global governance (part 3 of 3) Globalization and health 3-7
• Skutsch, M.M. and McCall, M.K. (2010) Reassessing REDD: Governance, Markets and the Hype Cycle: An Editorial Comment, Climatic Change, 100 (3-4), pp. 395–402.
• Soper, Kate. 2008. Alternative Hedonism, Cultural Theory and the Role of Aesthetic Revisioning, Cultural Studies, 22:5, 567-587
• Tan-Mullins, M, G. Mohan and M. Power (2010) “Re-defining ‘aid’ in the China-Africa context”, Development and Change 41(5): 857–881.
• Wilhite, H. and J. Norgard. 2004. Equating efficiency with reduction: A self-deception in energy policy. Energy and Environment 15 (3): 991-1011.
• World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our Common Future, Chapter 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press)