Believe it or not, two weeks before Labor Day in the U.S., classes started today at my university. I’m teaching an undergraduate course for nearly 50 students on “Global Ecopolitics” — a term used by Dennis Pirages, a professor at Maryland when I was in graduate school. The course will focus on the so-called “bottom billion” people living in poverty, as well as the politics of climate change.

I’ve previously blogged about my book choices, so this post is devoted to the other readings assigned for the class. The list below is in alphabetical order, rather than in the order the class will read them. Still, there’s some useful reading here for people interested in the politics of climate change (or broader ecopolitical issues).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Club of Rome, Abstract, “The Limits to Growth,” 1972. RTF

Dabelko, Geoffrey D., “An Uncommon Peace: Environment, Development, and the Global Security Agenda,” Environment 50 (May/June 2008), pp. 32-45.

Deudney, Daniel. TBA.

Hardin, Garrett, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science, 162 (December 13, 1968), pp. 1243-8.

Iklé, Fred C. and Lowell Wood, “Climate Engineering,” The National Interest 93 (January/February 2008), pp. 18-24.

IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 7-22.

IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A. Meyer (eds)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

Lomborg, Bjorn, “Doing Better on Climate Change,” Project Syndicate, May 2009.

Lomborg, Bjørn, “Global Warming: The Great Lifesaver,” Discover (August 31, 2007).

McCright, Aaron M. and Riley E. Dunlap, “Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement’s Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy,” Social Problems 50 (2003), pp. 348-73.

Michaels, Patrick J. “Global Warming and Climate Change,” Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7^th edition (2009), pp. 475-85.

Payne, Rodger A., “The Geopolitics of Global Climate Change,” Sustain 16 (Spring/Summer 2007), pp. 9-15.

Pielke, Roger A. Jr., “Policy, politics and perspective,” Nature 416 (March 28, 2002), pp. 367-8.

Schrope, Mark, “Consensus science, or consensus politics?” Nature 412 (July 12, 2001), pp. 112-4.

Stern, Todd, “Keynote Remarks at U.S. Climate Action Symposium,” (March 3, 2000).

United Nations (UN) Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), “Framing Sustainable Development; The Brundtland Report – 20 Years On,” Backgrounder (April 2007).

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), “Reaching a Climate Deal in Copenhagen,” UN-DESA Policy Brief 17 (June 2009).

Wood, Graeme, “Re-Engineering the Earth,” The Atlantic Monthly, (July/August 2009).

Further Reading on E-International Relations

• Getting the Most Out of Class Discussion
• The Rise and Fall of Europe: Unity and Challenge
• Buddhists Do Not Want Space Junk to Fall on Your Head
• Class Matters: Global Capital Mobility and State Power in Emerging Economies
• Signature Pedagogies and the Use of Violence in In-Class Simulations
• The Fall of Omar Bashir in Sudan: A People’s Revolution or a Changing of the Guard?