Required Readings

Please read these four documents (about 70 pages total) before our workshop meeting.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers (11/07 Valencia, Spain draft), 23 pp.

National Research Council Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities, Garry D . Brewer and Paul C. Stern, editors (2005), 8 pp.

International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Strategic Plan 2007-2015: Framing Worldwide Research on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, 32 pp.

Stern Review, The Economics of Climate Change, Nicholas Stern (2007): Executive Summary, 4 pp.  For longer version with graphics, see http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/4/3/Executive_Summary.pdf

Here are links to two recent “big picture” powerpoint presentations by Tom Dietz:

• National Research Council Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (4/07)
• National Center for Science and the Environment (1/08)

 

Recommended Readings

These are readings written by and/or recommended by workshop participants.

Adger, W. Neil. 2006. Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change, edited by W. N. A. et al. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Berkhout, Frans, et al. 2007. "Strategic Plan 2007-2015: Framing Worldwide Research on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change," edited by D. F. Williamson: International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.

Bernstein, Lenny,et al. 2007. "Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report - Summary for Policymakers." Pp. 23 in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.

Boykoff, Maxwell T. and Jules M. Boykoff. 2004. "Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the US Prestige Press." Global Environmental Change Part A 14:125-136.

Brechin, Steven R. 2008. "Ostriches and Change: A Response to `Global Warming and Sociology'." Current Sociology 56:467-474.

Broadbent, Jeffrey. 2002. "From Heat to Light?: Japan's Changing Response to Global Warming." Pp. 109-142 in Sovereignty under Challenge: How Governments Respond, edited by John D. Montgomery and Nathan Glazer. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Press.

Broadbent, Jeffrey. 2008. "Global Climate Change: the Doomsday Machine," University of Minnesota (unpublished).

Bulkeley, Harriet. 2000. "Common Knowledge? Public Understanding of Climate Change in Newcastle, Australia." Public Understanding of Science 9:313-333.

Bullard, Robert D. 2005. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. San Francisco, Berkeley, Calif.: Sierra Club Books; Distributed by University of California Press.

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. 2004. "African Americans and Climate Change: An Unequal Burden."

Dietz, Thomas and Eugene A Rosa. 1997. "Effects of Population and Affluence on CO2 emissions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94:175-179.

Dunlap, Riley E. 1998. "Lay Perceptions of Global Risk: Public Views of Global Warming in Cross-National Context." International Sociology 13:473-498.

—. 2008. "Climate-Change Views:  Republican-Democratic Gaps Expand." Gallup Organization website, May 29.

Fisher, Dana R. 2006. "Bringing the Material Back In: Understanding the U.S. Position on Climate Change," Sociological Forum 21:467-494.

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Helmut Haberl. 2007. Socioecological Transitions and Global Change: Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Frank, K. A., Mueller, K., Krause, A., Taylor, W., and Leonard, N. 2007. "The intersection of global trade, social networks, and fisheries."  Pp. 385-423 in Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources, edited by William Taylor and Michael G. Schecter and Lois Wolfson. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lankao, Patricia Romero. 2007. "How Do Local Governments in Mexico City Manage Global Warming?" Local Environment 12:519-535.

—. 2007. "Are we missing the point? Particularities of urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities." Environment and Urbanization 19:159-175.

Leahy, Terry. 2008. "Discussion of `Global Warming and Sociology'." Current Sociology 56:475-484.

Lever-Tracy, Constance. 2008a. "Global Warming and Sociology." Current Sociology 56:445-466.

—. 2008b. "Reply." Current Sociology 56:485-491.

McCright, Aaron M. and Riley E. Dunlap. 2000. "Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem: An Analysis of the Conservative Movement's Counter-Claims." Social Problems 47:499-522.

—. 2003. "Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy." Social Problems 50:348-373.

McCormick, Sabrina. 2008. "Hot or Not?: Recognizing and Preparing for Climate-Induced Illness." Please check with author before quoting.

McMichael, Anthony J., Rosalie E. Woodruff, and Simon Hales. 2006. "Climate Change and Human Health: Present and Future Risks." Lancet 367:859-869.

Michele, M. Betsill and Harriet Bulkeley. 2006. "Cities and the Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change." Global Governance 12:141.

Mintzer, Irving M., J. Amber Leonard, and Stockholm Environment Institute. 1994. Negotiating Climate Change: The inside Story of the Rio Convention. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Moser, Susanne C. and Lisa Dilling. 2007. Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Norgaard, Kari Marie. 2006. "'People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit': Emotions, Denial, and Social Movement Nonparticipation." Sociological Inquiry 76:372-396.

Oberthür, Sebastian Ott Hermann. 1999. The Kyoto Protocol: International Climate Policy for the 21st Century. New York: Springer.

Pastor, Manuel. 2006. "In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster and Race after Katrina." Russell Sage Foundation.

Pellow, David N. 2007. Resisting Global Toxics : Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pulver, Simone. 2007. "Making Sense of Corporate Environmentalism: An Environmental Contestation Approach to Analyzing the Causes and Consequences of the Climate Change Policy Split in the Oil Industry." Organization Environment 20:44-83.

Roberts, J. Timmons and Bradley C. Parks. 2007. A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Rosa, Eugene A. and Thomas Dietz. 1998. "Climate Change and Society: Speculation, Construction and Scientific Investigation." International Sociology 13:421-455.

Rosa, Eugene A., Richard York, and Thomas Dietz. 2004. "Tracking the Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Impacts. " AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 33:509–512.

Somerville, Richard C. J. 2006. Oral History of Richard C. J. Somerville. An interview conducted by Laura Harkewicz.

Stern, Paul. 2008. How to Prevent the Next U.S. Humanitarian Crisis (unpublished).

Stern, Paul C. and Thomas J. Wilbanks. 2008. Fundamental Research Priorities to Improve the Understanding of Human Dimensions of Climate Change. A Discussion Paper Prepared for the National Research Council’s Committee on Strategic Advice to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (Summary).

Vasi, Ion Bogdan. 2007. "Thinking Globally, Planning Nationally and Acting Locally: Nested Organizational Fields and the Adoption of Environmental Practices," Social Forces 86:1-24.

Wright, Beverly and Robert D. Bullard. 2007. "Washed Away by Hurricane Katrina:  Rebuilding a ‘New’ New Orleans." Pp. 189-214 in Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity, edited by R. D. Bullard. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

York, Richard and Eugene A. Rosa. 2006. "Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides in the Modern World-System " Pp. 119-132 in Globalization and the Environment, edited by A. K. E. L. Jorgenson. Boston: Brill.

York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2003. "Footprints on the Earth: The Environmental Consequences of Modernity." American Sociological Review 68:279-300.

York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2003. "Stirpat, IPAT and ImPACT: Analytic Tools for Unpacking the Driving Forces of Environmental Impacts." Ecological Economics 46:351-65.

York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. 2003. "A Rift in Modernity? Assessing the Anthropogenic Sources of Global Climate Change with the Stirpat Model." The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 23:31.