SLSP2932
Module Reading List
Professor Sarah Irwin
s.irwin@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
- Week 2: Sociology and the climate crisis
- Week 3: Extinction studies: the age of mass extinction
- Week 4. Mis/communicating science: from denial to discourses of delay
- Week 5. Public opinion, attitudes and values. Situating public understanding
- Week 6: The climate crisis and inter-generational inequities
- Week 7: Inequalities and the climate movement
- Week 8: Social policy framings
- Week 9: Policy into practice: the example of Local Climate Bonds
- Week 10. Community resilience and community engagement
Week 1: Introduction: an orientation to the module
Ritchie, H and Roser, M. (2020) CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Our World in Data; https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions
Ripple, W.J. et al (2020) ‘World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency’, BioScience 70, 1, January (Viewpoint)
Also see: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-climate-emergency-2020-in-review/ and the accompanying 8 minute video: ‘World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency’
Further reading/ resources
Romm, J. (2018, second edition) Climate Change: what everyone needs to know, Oxford University Press
Steffen, W., Rockstrom, J et al (2018) ‘Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene’, PNAS 115 (33): 8252-8259
IPCC 6th Assessment Report (Aug 2021) https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#outreach
UNCC Report – add links and UN
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts
Fanning, A.L., O’Neill, D.W., Hickel, J. et al. The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations. Nat Sustain (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00799-z
[and related press release with useful links: https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/nations-are-overusing-natural-resources-faster-than-they-are-meeting-basic-human-needs/]
Rockström, J., W. et al (2009) ‘Planetary boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity’, Ecology and Society 14(2): 32. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art32/
Podcasts / other media resources
https://unfccc.int/blog/5-climate-action-podcasts-you-should-be-listening-to
Outrage and Optimism; eg. ‘Bonus: IPCC Report: the tippig point for action with Michael Mann’ or another of your own choosing.
The State of the Climate Crisis in 2021, TED Countdown overview: https://www.ted.com/talks/climate_action_tracker_the_state_of_the_climate_crisis_in_2021?language=en
Week 2: Sociology and the climate crisis
Bradshaw Corey J. A. et al (2021) Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future’, Frontiers in Conservation Science 1 DOI=10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419
Brulle, R.J. and Dunlap, R.E (2015) ‘Sociology and global climate change’, in Dunlap, R.E. and Brulle, R.J. (eds) Climate change and society. Sociological perspectives, Oxford University Press
Chancel, L. and Piketty, T. (2015) Carbon inequality: from Kyoto to Paris. Trends in the global inequality of carbon emissions (1998-2013) http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/ChancelPiketty2015.pdf
Chancel, L. (2020) Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment, Harvard University Press
Dietz, T., Shwom, R.L. and Whitley, C.T. (2020) ‘Climate change and society’, Annual Review of Sociology 46 [1]:135-158.
Dunlap, R.E. and Brulle, R.J. (eds) Climate change and society. Sociological perspectives, Oxford University Press.
Fankhauser, S., de Menezes, A. and Opacic, N. (2019) ‘UK research on the social science of climate change. A synthesis of ESRC and related investments. Policy Report. Place-Based Climate Action Network’, London School of Economics and Political Science’, and see:
Giddens, A. (2011, second edition) The politics of climate change, Cambridge: Polity Press
Harvey, M. (2021) Climate Emergency: How Societies Create the Crisis, Emerald
Klinenberg, E., Araos, M and Koslov, L. (2020) Sociology and the climate crisis’ Annual Review of Sociology 46 [6]
Koehrsen, J., Dickel, S., Pfister, T., Rodder, S et al (2020) ‘Climate change in sociology: still silent or resonating?’, Current Sociology early view
Lever-Tracy, C. (2008) Global warming and sociology, Current Sociology 56 [3]: 445-466
MacGregor, S (2010) A stranger silence still: the need for feminist social research on climate change, The Sociological Review https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01889.x on this topic also see: Carbon Brief (2020) - https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-disproportionately-affects-womens-health
Maniates, M.F. (2001) ‘Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World’, Global Environmental Politics 1, 3
Norgaard, K.M. (2018) ‘The sociological imagination in a time of climate change’, Global and Planetary Change 163: 171-176
Norgaard, K.M. (2020) ‘Whose Energy Future? Whose Imagination? Revitalizing Sociological Theory in the Service of Human Survival’, Society & Natural Resources, 33:11, 1438-1445.
Raworth, K. (2018) Doughnut Economics. Seven ways to think like a 21st century economist, Random House Business
Urry, J. (2009) Sociology and Climate Change, Sociological Review https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-954X.2010.01887.x
Urry, J. (2014) ‘The problem of energy’, Theory, Culture and Society 31 [5]: 3-20
On government policy:
Week 3: Extinction studies: the age of mass extinction
Key readings
Rose D B eta. Eds (2017) Extinction Studies, Columbia University Press.
UN (2019) Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’ https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
Robin, L., 2018. Environmental humanities and climate change: understanding humans geologically and other life forms ethically. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 9(1), p.e499. https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/wcc.499
Further Readings
Bastian, M., 2020. Whale falls, suspended ground, and extinctions never known. Environmental Humanities, 12(2), pp.454-474.
Esther Breithoff & Rodney Harrison (2020) From ark to bank: extinction, proxies and biocapitals in ex-situ biodiversity conservation practices, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26:1, 37-55, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2018.1512146
Chrulew, M. and De Vos, R., 2019. Stories of unravelling and reworlding. Cultural Studies Review, 25(1), pp.23-28.
Cielemęcka, O., 2020. Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’forest. Journal of Gender Studies, 29(1), pp.63-75.
Collard, R.-C. (2018), Disaster Capitalism and the Quick, Quick, Slow Unravelling of Animal Life. Antipode, 50: 910-928. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12389
Enright, K., 2019. Exhibiting extinction: Martha and the monument, two modes of remembering nature. Cultural Studies Review, 25(1), pp.154-171.
Garlick, B. Cultural geographies of extinction: Animal culture among Scottish ospreys. Trans Inst Br Geogr. 2019; 44: 226– 241. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12268
Guasco, A., 2021. ‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in the museum. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(3), pp.1055-1076.
Heise, U.K., 2016. The environmental humanities and the futures of the human. New German Critique, 43(2), pp.21-31. (available as a PDF from Research Gate)
Heise, U.K., 2016 Imagining Extinction
Donna Houston (2021) Planning in the shadow of extinction: Carnaby’s Black cockatoos and urban development in Perth, Australia, Contemporary Social Science, 16:1, 43-56, DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2019.1660909
Laur Kiik (2018) Wild-ing the Ethnography of Conservation: Writing Nature’s Value and Agency, In Anthropological Forum, 28:3, 217-235, DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2018.1476222
Kröger, M., 2022. Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions: Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation. Taylor & Francis.
W P Malecki, Alexa Weik von Mossner, Piotr Sorokowski, Tomasz Frackowiak, Extinction Stories Matter: The Impact of Narrative Representations of Endangered Species Across Media, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2021;, isab094, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isab094
de Massol de Rebetz, C., 2020. Remembrance Day for Lost Species: Remembering and mourning extinction in the Anthropocene. Memory Studies, 13(5), pp.875-888.
O’Key, D., 2021. Why look at taxidermy animals? Exhibiting, curating and mourning the Sixth Mass Extinction Event. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27(6), pp.635-653.
Catherine Rigby (2019) Weaving the environmental humanities: Australian strands, configurations, and provocations, Green Letters, 23:1, 5-18, DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2019.1578250
Robin, L., 2018. Environmental humanities and climate change: understanding humans geologically and other life forms ethically. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 9(1), p.e499. https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/wcc.499
Schmidt, J.J., 2021. Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction. Environmental Humanities, 13(2), pp.281-300.
Sweet, T., 2021. Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Week 4. Mis/communicating science: from denial to discourses of delay
Histories and overviews of climate denialism
Cook (2016) https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-fossil-fuelled-climate-denial-61273
Dunlap, R.E. and McCright, A.M. (2015) ‘Challenging climate change. The denial countermovement’, in Dunlap, R.E. and Brulle, R.J. (eds) Climate change and society. Sociological perspectives, NY: Oxford University Press
Oreskes, N. and Conway, E.M. (2010) Merchants of Doubt. How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, London: Bloomsbury, especially ‘Conclusion: Of free speech and free markets’.
Fischer, F. (2019) ‘Knowledge politics and post-truth in climate denial: on the social construction of alternative facts’, Critical Policy Studies, 13:2, 133-152, DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2019.1602067
Lamb, W. F., Mattioli, G., Levi, S., Roberts, J. T., Capstick, S., Creutzig, F., Minx, J.,C., Müller-Hansen, F., Culhane, T., & Steinberger, J. K. (2020) ‘Discourses of climate delay’, Global Sustainability, 3, e17, 1–5.
A response to Lamb:
Stern, P. C. (2020) ‘Well meaning discourses of climate delay’, Global Sustainability 3, e35, 1–2.
Mann, M. (2021) The new climate war. The fight to take back our planet, Scribe Publications
For an interview with Mann about the book see:
McCright et al (2016) ‘Ideology, capitalism, and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States’, Energy Research and Social Science 21, 180-189
Norgaard, K.M. (2019) ‘Making sense of the spectrum of climate denial’, Critical Policy Studies, 13:4, 437-441, DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2019.1671208
Changing tactics – fossil fuel interests positioning as part of the solution
Supran, G. and Oreskes, N. (2021) ‘Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil’s climate change communications’, One Earth 4, 696–719 May 21, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.014
Rebecca Willis (2021) ‘Dig coal to save the climate’: the folly of Cumbria’s plans for a new coalmine – Guardian long read (or audio): https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/jun/21/dig-coal-to-save-the-climate-the-folly-of-cumbrias-plans-for-a-new-coalmine-podcast
The Climate Reality Project (2019) https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/climate-denial-machine-how-fossil-fuel-industry-blocks-climate-action
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/08/oil-companies-climate-crisis-pr-spending
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/climate-crimes
misinformation and the media
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-climate-change-misinformation-spreads-online
Treen, K. M. d’l. et al. (2020) Online misinformation about climate change, WIREs Climate Change, doi:10.1002/wcc.665
Science News (2021) https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-disinformation-denial-misinformation
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/08/oil-companies-climate-crisis-pr-spending
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/fleet-streets-last-dinosaur-of-climate-change-denial/
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/golden-age-of-greenwash/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/04/exxon-podasts-oil-company-ads-climate-crisis
https://www.clientearth.org/projects/the-greenwashing-files/
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072020/oil-gas-climate-pledges-bp-shell-exxon/
Week 5. Public opinion, attitudes and values. Situating public understanding
Critical overviews
Newell, P., Daley, F. and Twena, M. (2021) Changing our ways? Behaviour change and the climate crisis, The Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change, esp. chapter 3, available online: https://www.rapidtransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Cambridge-Sustainability-
Commission-on-Scaling-behaviour-change-report.pdf
Irwin, S. and Wright, K.J. (2021) ‘Public perceptions, practices and the climate crisis’, mimeo
Public opinion data and analyses:
BEIS Attitudes Tracker March 2019 Wave 29, 2012-2019 data
Barasi, L. and Harding , R. (2017) Climate concern and pessimism. Examining public attitudes across Europe, NatCen
Barasi, L, (2017) The climate majority. Apathy and actions in an age of nationalism
Capstick, S. Whitmarsh, L., Poortinga, W. and Pidgeon, N and Uoham, P. (2015) ‘International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the past quarter century’, WIREs Climate Change 6: 35-61
Fisher, S., Fitzgerald, R. and Poortinga, W. (2018) ‘Climate change. Social divisions in beliefs and behaviour’, British Social Attitudes 35
Riviere, E. (2021) ‘Sharing the responsibility for climate action’, Kantar Public [4]: 1-13, Oct, available here: https://kantar.turtl.co/story/public-journal-04/page/3/1, reported on:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/few-willing-to-change-lifestyle-climate-survey
Smith, M. (2019) ‘International poll: most expect to feel impact of climate change, many think it will make us extinct’, https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate
Worcester, R.M. (1993) Public and elite attitudes to environmental issues’, International Journal of Public Opinion Research 5 [4]: 315-334
Social psychological perspectives on attitude -behaviour gaps
Howlett, M. and Rawat, S. (2019) ‘Behavioural science and climate policy’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia: climate science
Markowitz, E.M. and Shariff, A.F. (2012) ‘Climate change and moral judgement’, Nature Climate Change March 2012
Marshall, N. A. et al (2019) ‘Our environmental value orientations influence how we respond to climate change’, Frontiers in Psychology 10, art 938
Marshall, G. (2014) Don’t even think about it. Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change, London/NY: Bloomsbury.
Critical perspectives /cultural contexts of ‘denial’
Gunderson, R., Stuart, D. and Houser, M. (2020) A political-economic theory of relevance: explaining climate change inaction’, J. Theory Soc Behav [50]:42-63
Norgaard, K (2006) We don’t really want to know’, Environmental Justice and Socially organized denial of global warming in Norway’, Organization and Environment 19, 3, 347-70
Theorising salience
Crawley, S., Coffee, H. and Chapman, R. (2020) Public opinion on climate change: belief, concern, issue salience and support for government action’, The British Journal of Politics and Industrial Relations’, [22]: 1, 102-121
Dietz, T., Fitzgerald, A. and Schwom, R. (2005) Environmental values’, Annual Review Environmental Resources 30: 335-372
Lucas, C.H. and Davison, A. (2018) ‘Not ‘getting on the bandwagon’. When climate change is a matter of unconcern’, ENE Nature and Space 2 [1]: 129-149
Practice theory: changing the lens
Shove, E. (2014) ‘Putting practice into theory: reconfiguring questions of consumption and climate change’, Contemporary Social Science 9 [4]: 415-429
Shove, E. (2010) ‘Beyond the ABC: climate change policy and theories of social change’, Environment and Planning A 42: 1273-85
Shove, E, and Walker, G. (2014) ‘What is energy for? Social practice and energy demand’, Theory, Culture and Society 31 [5]: 41-58
Spurling, N., McMeekin, A., Shove, E., Southerton, D. and Welch, D. (2013) Interventions in practice: re-framing policy approaches to consumer behaviour, Sustainable Practices Research Group Report, Sept
Week 6: The climate crisis and inter-generational inequities
White, J. (2017) ‘Climate change and the generational timescape’, The Sociological Review 65, 4, 763-778
Diprose, K., Liu, C., Valentine, G. et al (2019) Caring for the future: climate change and intergenerational responsibility in China and the UK’, Geoforum, 105: 158-167 (complements White above)
Graham, H. et al (2017) ‘Do People Favour Policies that Protect Future Generations? Evidence from a British Survey of Adults’, Journal of Social Policy 46, 3, 423–445
(if you want a brief overview first see:
Graham and White 2017: https://theconversation.com/society-actually-does-want-policies-that-benefit-future-generations-69481
Overview of science of climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions
(article by Ritchie and Roser 2017, updated 2020, Our World in Data).
Overview of disproportionate effects of climate and nature crises on children
Hickman, C. et al (2021) ‘Young People’s Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon’, available at SSRN:
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3918955
Sanson, A.V. and Burke, W.E.L. (2020) ‘Climate change and children: an issue of intergenerational justice’, in Balvin, N. and Christie, D.J. (eds) Children and Peace, esp. pp343-347 Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Thiery, W. et al (2021) ‘Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes’, Science 374, 6564, pp. 158-160, Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes (science.org) **
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2021) The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index, New York: ISBN: 978-92-806-5276-5 (accessible online)
See also, on issues of climate and generational impacts
Whither future generations and children’s perspectives and voice?
Graham, H. and de Bell, S. (2020) ‘The representation of future generations in newspaper coverage of climate change: A study of the UK press’, Children and Society 35 [4]: 465-480, open access https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12411
More on the import of generation as a framing for policy
Laybourn-Langton, L., Emden, J. and Rankin, L. (2019) Inheriting the earth? The unprecedented challenge of environmental breakdown for younger generations, IPPR Discussion Paper 2
Treves, A. et al (2018) ‘Intergenerational equity can help to prevent climate change and extinction’, Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 204-207 (Feb 2018)
Anderson, V. (2018) ‘Protecting the interests of future generations’, Centre for Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, WP no. 14
On the Well Being of Future Generations Act in Wales: https://www.futuregenerations.wales/about-us/future-generations-act/
Generations/ global south inequalities
See Rao and Powell in BMJ 2021 – described in
** the Thiery et al article in ‘Science’ has extensive press coverage eg:
and here-
Global South
and climate justice..
https://www.carbonbrief.org/experts-why-does-climate-justice-matter
Week 7: Inequalities and the climate movement
Arora-Jonsson, S. (2011). “Virtue and vulnerability: Discourses on women, gender and climate change”. Global Environmental Change. 21(2): 744-751
Bell, K. & Bevan, G. (2021). "Beyond inclusion? Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities". Local Environment. 26(10): 1205-1220
Bowman, B. (2020). “‘They don’t quite understand the importance of what we’re doing today’: the young people’s climate strikes as subaltern activism”. Sustainable Earth. 3(16). https://sustainableearth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42055-020-00038-x
de Moor, J., de Vydt, M., Uba, K. & Wahlstrom, M. (2021). “New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism”. Social Movement Studies, 20:5, 619-625
Fenney, D. (2017). “Ableism and Disablism in the UK Environmental Movement”. Environmental Values. 26(4): 503-522 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ev/2017/00000026/00000004/art00007
Huttunen, J. & Albrecht, E. (2021) “The framing of environmental citizenship and youth participation in the Fridays for Future Movement in Finland”. Fennia. 199(1): 46-60 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/download/102480/64525/200899
Lenkart, M. (2018) “Environmental Justice“. DEMOS. 1(1): 6-11 https://core.ac.uk/reader/214314640
Saunders et al. (2020). “A New Climate Movement? Extinction Rebellion’s Activists in Profile". CUSP Working Paper No 25. Guildford: Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. https://www.cusp.ac.uk/themes/p/xr-study/
Sze, J. (2017). “Gender and Environmental Justice“. In Sherilyn MacGregor (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment. London: Routledge
Wood, B.E. (2020). “Youth-led climate strikes: fresh opportunities and enduring challenges for youth research”. Fennia. 198(1-2): 217-222
Other resources
Cowan, L. (2019). “Are Extinction Rebellion whitewashing climate justice?”. Gal-dem. 18th April 2019. https://gal-dem.com/extinction-rebellion-risk-trampling-climate-justice-movement/
Extinction Rebellion (2021). “About Us” https://rebellion.global/about-us/
Global Witness (2021) “Last line of defence”. NGO report on violence against land and environmental defenders https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/last-line-defence/
Indigenous Environmental Network website (this website has a range of interesting resources to explore relating to indigenous environmental movements) https://www.ienearth.org/
Indigenous Activists (2015) “Open Letter from the Wretched of the Earth bloc to the organisers of the People’s Climate March of Justice and Jobs” (this is an ‘open letter’ sent by indigenous activists to the organisers of the London Climate March of 2015, detailing their negative experiences) https://blackdissidents.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/open-letter-from-the-wretched-of-the-earth-bloc-to-the-organisers-of-the-peoples-climate-march-of-justice-and-jobs/
Randall, C. (2021). “Ecoableism and the Climate Movement”. Friends of the Earth Scotland. https://foe.scot/eco-ableism-and-the-climate-movement/
Thomas, A. & Haynes, R. (2020). “Black Lives Matter: the link between climate change and racial justice”. Climate Analytics Blog. 22nd June 2020. https://climateanalytics.org/blog/2020/black-lives-matter-the-link-between-climate-change-and-racial-justice/
Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEeTl7rgjGo Non-Violent Direct Action | Extinction Rebellion UK (2020)
Or this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mxldI71h0k The Deliberate Rebellion | Extinction Rebellion (2019) (which is longer, but not too long)
Week 8: Social policy framings
Brisley, R., Welstead, J., Hindle, R. & Paavola, J. (2012). “Socially Just Adaptation to Climate Change”. Joseph Rowntree Report. July 2012. https://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/default/files/jrf/migrated/files/climate-change-adaptation-full_0.pdf
Buck, H.J. (2021). Why Net Zero is not Enough. London: Verso
Buehler, R., Pucher, J., Gerike, R. & Gotschi, J. (2016). “Reducing car dependence in the heart of Europe: lessons from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01441647.2016.1177799?casa_token=5uWkHvJCoAsAAAAA%3AsM8j6cLCqByv9Yaq4QGRsrRcNQez7s06E3OSsksdP-c7XX0RzA8kw5q2-Y3nFpwzeE2tc1UzLg Carter, N. (2014). “The politics of climate change in the UK”. WIREs Climate Change. 5 :423-433
Gibbs, M.T. (2016). “Why is coastal retreat so hard to implement? Understanding the political risk of coastal adaptation pathways”. Ocean & Coastal Management. 130: 107-114
Gillard, R. (2016). "Unravelling the UK's climate policy discourse: The power of ideas, discourse and institutions". Global Environmental Change. 40: 26-36
Gough, I., Meadowcroft, J., Dryzek, J., Gerhards, J., Lengfield, H., Markandya, A. & Ortiz, R. (2008). "JESP Symposium: climate change and social policy". Journal of European Social Policy. 18(4): 325-344
Gough, I. (2011). "Climate Change and Public Policy Futures". British Academy Report. London: The British Academy https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/252/Climate-change-public-policy-futures.pdf
Markkanen, S. & Anger-Kraavi, A. (2019). “Social impacts of climate change mitigation policies and their implications for inequality”. Climate Policy. 19(7): 827-844 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1596873
McLaren, D. (2019). "The trouble with net zero emissions targets". Carbon Brief. 30th September 2019. https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the-problem-with-net-zero-emissions-targets
Middlemiss, L. (2014). “Individualised or participatory? Exploring late-modern identity and sustainable development”. Environmental Politics. 23(6): 929-946
National Audit Office (2021) “Energy Efficiency of Existing Homes report Environmental Audit Committee. Conclusions and Recommendations” https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmenvaud/346/34608.htm
Paterson, M. (2021). In Search of Climate Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Remling, E. (2018). "Depoliticising adaptation: a critical analysis of EU climate adaptation policy". Environmental Politics. 27(3)
Rossa-Roccor, V., Giang, A. & Kershaw, P. (2021). “Framing climate change as a human health issue: enough to tip the scale in climate policy?”. The Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196%2821%2900113-3
Other resources
(just see executive summary) Climate Change Committee (2021). “Progress in adapting to climate change: 2021 Report to Parliament”. June 2021. https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Progress-in-adapting-to-climate-change-2021-Report-to-Parliament.pdf
(just see executive summary) Climate Change Committee (2021). “Progress in reducing emissions 2021 Report to Parliament”. June 2021. https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Progress-in-reducing-emissions-2021-Report-to-Parliament.pdf
(just see executive summary) DEFRA (2018). “ The National Adaptation Programme and the Third Strategy for Climate Adaptation Reporting: Making the country resilient to a changing climate”. July 2018. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/727252/national-adaptation-programme-2018.pdf
Dyke, J., Watson, R. & Knorr, W. (2021). “Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap”. The Conversation. April 22nd 2021. https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368
Halliday, J. & Barrat, L. (2020). “More than 11,000 homes in England to be built on land at high risk of flooding”. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/23/more-than-11000-homes-to-be-built-on-land-at-high-risk-of-flooding
Webb, J., Emden, J. & Murphy, L. (2020). “All Hands to the Pump: a home improvement plan for England”. IPPR report. July 2020. https://www.ippr.org/files/2020-07/all-hands-to-the-pump-july20.pdf
Week 9: Policy into practice: the example of Local Climate Bonds
Research Project Page
https://baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/research/cmis-local-climate-bonds/
Key Readings
Davis, M. (2021) Community Municipal Investments: Accelerating the Potential of Local Net Zero Strategies. https://doi.org/10.5518/100/70
Hall S, Roelich KE, Davis M, Holstenkamp L. (2018) ‘Finance and justice in low-carbon energy transitions’, Applied Energy. 222: 772-780. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.04.007
Wider Reading
Blakeley, G. (2019) Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation. London: Repeater Books.
Block, F.L. (2014) ‘Democratizing Finance’, Politics and Society, 42, 1: 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329213512976
Brown, D, Hall S and Davis M (2020) ‘What is prosumerism for? A reflection on competing normativities in the prosumer energy transition’, Energy Research and Social Science, 66. Article No. 101475 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101475
Brown, D, Hall, S and Davis M (2019) ‘Prosumers in the post subsidy era: an exploration of new prosumer business models in the UK’, Energy Policy, 135. Article No. 110984 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110984
Davis, M, Braunholtz-Speight, T and Wardrop, R (2020) ‘Crowdfunding as Democratic Finance? Understanding How and Why UK Investors Trust these Markets, Revista Internacional de Sociología, 78, 4: e173. https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2020.78.4.m20.005
Earle, J., Moran, C. and Ward-Perkins, Z. (2017) Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts. London: Penguin/Random House.
Gibson-Graham, J.K., Cameron, J. and Healy, S. (2013) Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Hall, S and Davis, M (2021) ‘Permission to say “Capitalism”: Principles for Critical Social Science Engagement With GGR Research’, Frontiers in Climate, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.708913
Hargreaves, T and Middlemiss, L (2020) ‘The importance of social relations in shaping energy demand’, Nature Energy, 5:195–201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0553-5
Klein, N. (2019) On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. London: Penguin Books.
Klein, N. (2015) This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate. London: Penguin Books.
Langley, P. (2016) ‘Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A Cultural Economy’, Economic Geography, 92, 3: 301-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2015.1133233
Langley, P. and Leyshon, A. (2017) ‘Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding’, Environment and Planning A, 49, 5: 1019-1039. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16687556
Mazzucato, M. (2021) The Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism . London: Allen Lane.
Mellor, M. (2016) Debt or Democracy? Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice. London: Pluto Books.
Pettifor, A. (2020) The Case for the Green New Deal. London: Verso.
Walby, S. (2013) ‘Finance versus Democracy? Theorizing Finance in Society’, Work, Employment and Society, 27, 3: 489-507. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017013479741
Week 10. Community resilience and community engagement
Cinderby, S., Haq, G., Cambridge, H. & Lock, K. (2014). “Building community resilience: can everyone enjoy a good life?”. Local Environment. 21(10): 1252-1270
Forrest et al. 2018. “Civil society contributions to local level flood resilience: Before, during and after the 2015 Boxing Day floods in the Upper Calder Valley” https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12279
Harrison, E. (2012). “Bouncing back? Recession, resilience and everyday lives”. Critical Social Policy. 33(1): 97-113 Kythreotis, A.P. & Bristow, G.I. (2017). "The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions," Regional Studies. 51(10): 530-1541
McEwen, L., Garde-Hansen, J., Holmes, A., Jones, O. & Krause, F. (2016) “Sustainable Flood Memories, Lay knowledges and the development of community resilience to future flood risk”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 42:14-28
(see executive summary) Twigger-Ross, C., Kashefi, E., Weldon, S., Brooks, K., Deeming, H., Forrest, S., Fielding, J., Gomersall, A., Harries, T., McCarthy, S., Orr, P., Parker, D., and Tapsell, S. (2014). “Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder Evaluation: Rapid Evidence Assessment”. London: Defra Available Online Here
Twigger-Ross, C. et al. (2015). “Community Resilience to Climate Change: An evidence review”. Joseph Rowntree Foundation report (findings) https://www.jrf.org.uk/file/48508/download?token=jg69V6ox&filetype=findings
Wamsler, C. & Brink, E. (2014). “Moving beyond short-term coping and adaptation”. Environment and Urbanisation. 26(1): 86-111
Wright, K. (2016). “Resilient communities? Experiences of risk and resilience in a time of austerity”. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 18: 153-16
Wright, K. (2021). Community Resilience. London: Routledge.
Other resources
https://www.itv.com/hub/it-takes-a-flood/10a1765a0001 It Takes a Flood: From Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald comes a film about extreme flooding in the UK, which takes viewers inside the homes of people affected by increasingly ferocious floods.
This list was last updated on 09/03/2022