Further reading and learning

This is a reference list of optional further readings on the themes of Week 3. Please add your own suggestions at Twitter, Facebook or at the Uppsala University studium page.

Read more in Climate change and transboundary rivers: testing times for hydrodiplomacy, 2016, by Ashok Swain.

Systems and complexity

Meadows, D. (1999). Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. The Sustainability Institute.

Meadows, D. (2017). A philosophical look at system dynamics. [video]

O’Brien, K., & Sygna, L. (2013). Responding to Climate Change: The Three Spheres of Transformation. Proceedings of Transformation in a Changing Climate, 19-21 June 2013, Oslo, Norway, 16–23.

Poli, R. (2013). A note on the difference between complicated and complex social systems. In Cadmus, 2 (1), pp. 142-147.

Sustainability Illustrated. (2014). Systems thinking a cautionary tale (cats in Borneo) [video]

Migration in the context of climate change

ETC Group. (2022). Solar geoengineering: warnings from scientists, indigenous peoples and climate activists. [video]

How to Save a Planet. (2021). Like the monarch, human migrations during climate change. [podcast]

Manou, D.,Baldwin, A., Cubie, D., Mihr, A., and Thorp, T. (eds.). (2018). Climate change, migration and human rights: law and policy perspectives. New York: Routledge.

McClanahan, T. R., and Cinner, J. E. (2012). Adapting to a changing environment: confronting the consequences of climate change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

UNHCR. (n.d). Figures at a glance.

Technology in the context of climate change

Cigas, S. (2021). Ethics of geoengineering. In Viterbi Conversation on Ethics, 5(1).

Fleming, J. R. (2010) Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control. New York: Columbia University Press.

Financial Times. (2022). Carbon capture: the hopes, challenges and controversies | FT Film. [video]

Keith, D. W. (2001). Geoengineering. In Nature, 409, p. 420.

LastWeekTonight. (2022). Carbon offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO). [video]

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