Dear colleagues The responses to my query from December 3 are compiled below the signature (in the order that they were sent to me). A few people included things they have written (chapters, articles, syllabi) as attachments. In order to keep the message size manageable I haven’t included any of those attachments here, but you can contact the authors directly if you are interested. All the best,
Andrew Andrew Biro (he/him) Professor, Department of Politics 15 University Avenue Wolfville, NS, CA, B4P 2R6 tel: 902-585-1925 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> bluesky & twitter(x): @andrewbiro New book: Organizing Nature: Turning Canada’s Ecosystems into Resources https://utorontopress.com/9781487594848/organizing-nature/ Acadia University is localed in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw nation. We are all treaty people. Helen Rosko: I ran the World Climate Simulation<https://www.climateinteractive.org/world-climate-simulation/> this semester in my upper-level Political Geography class, when we covered International Climate Politics. It was a big hit! And it was fairly easy to run and roll out. I highly recommend, all the resources are available on their website. Devon Cantwell-Chavez: I just finished teaching this topic in my Global Governance and International Institutions course this term (also a third-year course) at uOttawa. I think the students have similar demographics to yours re: no prior background in this governance topic. I have a few things I can share with you! First, if you are teaching this during the fall, students really enjoyed "live coverage" readings. Here's what I ended up assigning them this term: https://www.woodmac.com/podcasts/the-energy-gang/cop29-climate-finance-forefront/ https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-67scp-1542101?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share https://undispatch.com/cop28-fossil-fuels-what-happened/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/15/cop-summits-no-longer-fit-for-purpose-say-leading-climate-policy-experts https://soundcloud.com/user-165800906/cop-29-halfway-point-webinar I also specially recorded a podcast with Lauren Baker on COP meetings you can listen to here https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/component-page?action=viewdetailpage&sharelevel=meeting&useWhichPasswd=meeting&clusterId=us02&componentName=need-password&meetingId=qyMfrEKviX1H7hIva93MN8XQJim5ZWZBPc-sVYtBFZELpozIEKFFDcEFh3LxfnwQ.evcYPjgSjeLOBmLa&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fplay%2FZCdsjTgstK5b4OAAO-NJasLbxFIiQuvqJXVmT-AYbKmdTbeh3emXKruVy4iAGzt-s08qLof9B9nllHNU.DZpgayRa1Km5kpBX [please contact Devon for the password] I've also attached a chapter Ryan Katz-Rosene and I just finished up that should be coming out in a new edited volume very soon. [Ryan Katz-Rosene and Devon Cantwell-Chavez. Forthcoming 2024. “Teaching Environment in an IR Theory Course.” Jamie Frueh, Jacqui Ala. Michael Murphy, Paul Diehl (editors). Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory.] I would start with some of the recommended readings in that chapter to set the base and then a few "live coverage" podcasts or media articles that tackle some of the big issues at and around COP meetings. Finally, here are the slides I used for that class period: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OLtqF0SLYHu7hwq2V3Q_SlKzHnRq1SjhE9p3nsPAJD0/edit#slide=id.p Paul G Harris: You may want to consider one or more chapters in my book, Pathologies of Climate Governance: International Relations, National Politics and Human Nature. You can find information, and related teaching/learning resources, on my website here: https://paulgharris.net/books/pathologies-of-climate-governance-summary/ Alternatively, you could ask students to read my chapter on climate change in the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Global-Environmental-Politics/Harris/p/book/9781032145808 Stacy VanDeveer: Here is a chapter by Henrik Selin and me from this textbook: “Global Climate Change Governance: Where Next, After Paris?” (w/Henrik Selin), Environmental Policy, 12th edition, Michael Kraft and Barry Rabe, eds. (Sage/CQ Press, 2024): 249-67. Peter Newell: Harriet and I tried to write our book Governing Climate Change with that type of audience in mind. The third edition came out last year. The intro and chapter 1 give a good overview of the climate negotiation process and institutions. https://www.routledge.com/Governing-Climate-Change/Bulkeley-Newell/p/book/9781032114194 The Stoddard et al review paper is also useful for critiques of climate policy: what has and hasn't been achieved and why. It covers a lot of ground and gives scope for students to follow up on areas they are most interested in. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104 Amy Janzwood: I’m attaching my syllabus from this fall for a third year political science course on global environmental politics — Weeks 10 and 11 were devoted to ‘climate diplomacy’; happy to chat further if you’d like! Diana Elhard: I think these three pieces can be really useful as a general introduction for more advanced students: 1. One general, more interactive piece that might be interesting is this 'big picture' guide from the UNFCCC itself.<https://unfccc.int/resource/bigpicture/> 2. In Quest of a Shared Planet, an ethnography of UNFCCC COPs by Naveeda Kahn, currently open access here: https://research.library.fordham.edu/literary/2/ <https://research.library.fordham.edu/literary/2/> [I would recommend the first couple chapters] 3. There are really great sources in this new edited volume: In: Hughes H, Vadrot ABM, eds. Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making. Cambridge University Press; 2023, in particular this chapter might be useful: Bach T, Martin B. Negotiations: Navigating Global Environmental Conferences.<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/conducting-research-on-global-environmental-agreementmaking/negotiations/3D3BA367D6BBB6431B118CA6DCEA4D11> Jessica Green: This might be helpful: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108915199.004 [Jessica F. Green, “Climate Change Governance: Past, Present, and (Hopefully) Future” in Michael N. Barnett, Jon C.W. Pevehouse, and Kai Raustiala (eds.) Global Governance in a World of Change (Cambridge UP, 2021). (Open access)] From: 'Andrew Biro' via gep-ed <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 4:55 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [gep-ed] Suggested readings to teach UNFCCC CAUTION: This email comes from outside Acadia. Verify the sender and use caution with any requests, links or attachments. Dear gep-ed colleagues, Next semester, I’m going to be teaching a new 3rd-year level undergraduate course on Climate Change Politics. I’m planning to devote about two weeks specifically to the UNFCCC process, followed by an in-class negotiation simulation. In the two weeks, I’m hoping to cover (“only”) the basics of: the UNFCCC, the COP process, its main achievements, and some of the major critiques/obstacles/weaknesses. This is not really my wheelhouse, and I’m hoping that folks on this list, particularly those who have taught similar courses, can provide suggested readings (including podcasts, etc.) that cover these topics in a way that is accessible and engaging for ~3rd year undergrads (mostly a mix of politics and enviro studies majors, but the course has no prerequisites so I really can’t assume much background knowledge). I’ve been working my way through the very useful Climate Syllabus Bank, but there is a lot of material there (and elsewhere), and one of the limitations is that syllabi don’t indicate which readings were/weren’t particularly effective. In keeping with the customary practice on this list, please reply directly to me ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>), and I’ll compile the responses and send that out to the list in a couple of weeks. Thanks, Andrew Andrew Biro (he/him) Professor, Department of Politics 15 University Avenue Wolfville, NS, CA, B4P 2R6 tel: 902-585-1925 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> bluesky & twitter(x): @andrewbiro New book: Organizing Nature: Turning Canada’s Ecosystems into Resources https://utorontopress.com/9781487594848/organizing-nature/ Acadia University is localed in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw nation. We are all treaty people. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. 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