Thanks to everyone who responded on this thread about reading material
for an upper division climate policy and responses class! Here are the
responses I received:
1) I taught a course like this last semester and found there is no
good single textbook that works for the whole course. I used excerpts
from Joe DiMento and Pam Doughman's edited volume CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT
IT MEANS FOR US, OUR CHILDREN AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN which gave some
good background and frameworks we could use. But info on actual
initiatives changes so fast and is probably better presented with
recent articles and reports. -- Michele Betsill, who also has a
syllabus available if anyone wants it (m.bets...@colostate.edu)
2) Ron Mitchell has a draft of a chapter available entitled: "Non-
intergovernmental solutions to international environmental problems"
available from Ron on request (rmitc...@uoregon.edu)
3) Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change by Steve
Vanderheiden just won the Sprout award at ISA (which awards what the
committee sees as the best international environmental book of the
year). I have not read it yet, but the simple fact of the award
indicates it is probably worth a look.
4) Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer have a piece in Review of
Policy Research, Volume 24, Number 1 (2007) "Political Science and
Prediction: What’s Next for U.S.Climate Change Policy?" and Stacy and
Henrik also have a book coming out on North American climate politics
in April from MIT press.
Thanks all!
Lisa
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Lisa Dilling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research/CIRES
University of Colorado
1333 Grandview Ave, Campus Box 488
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0488
Phone: (303) 735-3678; Fax: 303-735-1576
Email: ldill...@colorado.edu
webpage: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/homepages/lisa_dilling/
