Syllabus/achievement requirements

Students attending Master's courses will be able to participate on a library course. At the course you will learn how to do searches in both national and international databases, and you will have the opportunity to search the articles that is on your curriculum.The course is voluntary, but we strongly recommend that students attend. More information to come.

Book

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce. 2010. The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future. New York: Random House, chs. 1-3, 5, 10, & 11 (skim the remainder of the book).

To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus

Bodansky, Daniel and Lavanya Rajamani. 2013. The Evolution and Governance Architecture of the Climate Change Regime.  In: Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz, eds., in preparation. International Relations and Global Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, mimeo.

Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, Håkon Sælen, and Arild Underdal. 2014. The Club Approach: A Gateway to Effective Climate Cooperation? Prepared for the 2014 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada. mimeo.

Hovi, Jon, and Arild Underdal. 2013. Implementation, Compliance, and Effectiveness of Policies and Institutions, In: Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz, eds., in preparation. International Relations and Global Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, mimeo.

Mitchell, Ronald B. 2009. International Politics and the Environment. Los Angeles: Sage, 112-145.

Oberthür, Sebastian, and Kristin Rosendal, eds. 2014. Global Governance of Genetic Resources - Access and Benefit Sharing after the Nagoya Protocol. New York and London: Routledge, 1-17, 231-250

Rosendal, Kristin, and Peter Johan Schei. 2012. Convention on Biological Diversity - From National Conservation to Global Responsibility. In Steinar Andresen, Elin Lerum Boasson, and Geir Hønneland, eds. International Environmental Agreements - An Introduction, New York: Routledge, 119-133.

Underdal, A. 2009. Can International Conferences Be Modeled? In Karin Aggestam and Magnus Jerneck. Diplomacy in Theory and Practice, Malmö: Liber, 125-140.

Underdal, Arild. 2008. Determining the Causal Significance of Institutions: Accomplishments and Challenges. In Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder, eds., Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 49-78.

Downloadable articles, books and other texts

You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.

 

Check out these websites,UNFCCC website for important information as well as IISD ENB Reporting:

http://unfccc.int/adaptation/workstreams/loss_and_damage/items/6056.php

http://www.iisd.ca/process/climate_atm.htm

Please also check:

http://www.field.org.uk/work/climate-change

https://germanwatch.org/en/stichwort/loss-and-damage

www.cbd.int (biodiversity)

http://www.predictioneersgame.com, especially http://www.predictioneersgame.com/game

Dimitrov, Radoslav. S. 2010. Inside Copenhagen: The State of Climate Governance. Global Environmental Politics 10(2):18-24,

Helm, Carsten, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2000. Measuring the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes. Journal of Conflict Resolution 44 (5):630-652,

Hovi, Jon, Mads. Greaker, et al. 2012. A Credible Compliance Enforcement System for the Climate Regime. Climate Policy 12 (6):741-754

Hovi, Jon, and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2006. The Limits of the Law of the Least Ambitious Program. Global Environmental Politics 6:28-42.

Hovi, Jon, Detlef F. Sprinz, and Arild Underdal. 2009. Implementing Long-Term Climate Policy: Time Inconsistency, Domestic Politics, International Anarchy. Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):20-39,

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2014. Climate Change 2014 - Synthesis Report - Approved Summary for Policymakers. 01 Nov. 2014

Mitchell, Ronald B. 2007. Compliance Theory: Compliance, Effectiveness, and Behavior Change in International Environmental Law. In Jutta Brunee, Daniel Bodansky and Ellen Hey, eds. Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 893-921

Princen, Thomas. 2009. Long-Term Decision-Making: Biological and Psychological Evidence. Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):9-19

Schäfer, Laura, and Sönke Kreft. 2014. Loss and Damage: Roadmap to Relevance for the Warsaw International Mechanism. Bonn: Germanwatch

Sprinz, Detlef F. 2012. Long-Term Environmental Policy: Definition—Origin—Response Options. In Peter Dauvergne, ed. Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Sprinz, Detlef F. 2009. Long-Term Environmental Policy: Definition, Knowledge, Future Research. Global Environmental Politics 9 (3):1-8

Sprinz, Detlef, and Tapani Vaahtoranta. 1994. The Interest-Based Explanation of International Environmental Policy. International Organization 48 (1):77-105.

Sprinz, Detlef F., and Steffen von Bünau. 2013. The Compensation Fund for Climate Impacts. Weather, Climate, and Society 5 (3):210-20,

Tol, Richard S. J., and Roda Verheyen. 2004. State Responsibility and Compensation for Climate Change Damages - a Legal and Economic Assessment.  Energy Policy 32:1109-1130

Underdal, Arild. 2011. Complexity and Challenges of Long-Term Environmental Governance. Global Environmental Change 20(3):386-393,

Young, Oran R. 2011. "Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Existing Knowledge, Cutting-Edge Themes, and Research Strategies." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (50):19853-60

Young, Oran R. 2001. Inferences and Indices: Evaluating the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes. Global Environmental Politics 1 (1):99-121

Fronter

Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz. eds. 2013. International Relations and Global Climate Change. in preparation. mimeo.  Skim

 

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