Part 8: The world stage

Green movements

• Paul Hawken. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming, Viking, 2007, 9780670038527 (hbk)
• Jonathan Isham, Sissel Waage and Bill McKibben (eds). Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement, Island Press, 2007, 9781597261562
• Herbert Giradet et al. Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges, Earthscan, 2008, 9781844076123

Ecocriticism

• Lawrence Buell. The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Criticism and Literary Imagination, Blackwell Publishing, 2005, 1405124768
• Greg Garrard. Ecocriticism, Routledge, 2004 (reprinted 2007), 0415196922
• Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald. The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings, Berg Publishers, 2007, 9781845204709

Economics and business

• John Asafu-Adjaye. Environmental Economics for Non-Economists: Techniques and Policies for Sustainable Development, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 2005, 9812561234
• Ricardo Bayon, Amanda Hawn and Katherine Hamilton (eds), foreword by Al Gore. Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work, Earthscan, Jan 2007, 184407417X
• C. Carraro (ed.). Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy, Springer, 2000, 0792362624
• Clive Hamilton. Growth fetish, Pluto Press, 2004, 0745322506
• Alain Haurie and Laurent Viguier (eds). The Coupling of Climate and Economic Dynamics: Essays on Integrated Assessment, Springer, 2006, 1402034245
• Peter S. Heller. Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges, International Monetary Fund, 2003, 158906223X
• Van Jones. The green collar economy: how one solution can fix our two biggest problems, HarperOne, 2008, 9780061650758
• Sonia Labatt and Rodney R. White (eds). Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, April 2007, 0471794678
• David Maddison. The Amenity Value of the Global Climate, Earthscan, 2001, 185383677X
• Anil Markandya, Kirsten Halsnaes (eds). Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Prospects for Developing Countries, Earthscan, 2002, 1853839108
• Laura Mazur and Louella Miles, (eds). Conversations with green gurus: the collective wisdom of environmental movers and shakers, Wiley, 2009, 9780470714317
• Brian Milani. Designing the Green Economy, Rowman & Littlefirld Publishers, 2000, 084769190X
• William D. Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer. Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming, MIT Press, 2003, 0262640546
• William D. Nordhaus. Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change, RFF Press, 1998, 0915707950
• Joseph J. Romm. Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do, William Morrow, 2006, 006117212X
• Matthias Ruth. Smart Growth and Climate Change: Regional Development, Infrastructure, and Adaptation (New Horizons in Regional Science Series), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 184542509X
• Kenny Tang (ed). The Finance of Climate Change: A Guide for Governments, Corporations and Investors, Risk Books, 2005, 190433962X
• Levinson, Marc. The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006 0691123241
• Cudahy, Brian J. Box boats: how container ships changed the world. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 0823225682
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III. J.P. Bruce, H. Lee, E.F. Haites (eds). Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Contribution of Working Group III to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 0521568544
• Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston. Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value and Build Competitive Advantage, Yale University Press, 2006, 9780300119978 (hbk)
• Stuart L. Hart. Capitalism at the Crossroads, Wharton School Publishing, 2007, 9780136134398
• Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Little, Brown & Co, 1999, 9780316353007
• Bill McKibben. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Times Books, USA, 2007, 9780805076264 (hbk)
• Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder. The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity, Collins, 2007, 9780060896232 (hbk)
• Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton. Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and Industrial Environments, The MIT Press, 2007, 9780262182584 (hbk)
• Kenny Tang and Ruth Yeoh. Cut Carbon, Grow Profits: Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability, Middlesex University Press, 2007, 9781904750154 (hbk)
• M. Grubb and J. Wilde. The European Emissions Trading Scheme: Implications for Industrial Competitiveness, The Carbon Trust, 2004. Available free from The Carbon Trust
• M. Grubb. The Climate Change Challenge. The Carbon Trust, 2005. Available free from The Carbon Trust
• Brian Clegg. Ecologic: The Truth and Lies of Green Economics, Eden Project Books, 2009, 9781905811250
• Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn. Earth: The Sequel – The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, W. W. Norton & Co, 2009 (revised edition), 9780393334197
• William D. Nordhaus. A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, Yale University Press, 2008, 9780300137484
• United Kingdom Committee on Climate Change. Building a Low Carbon Economy: The UK’s Contribution to Tackling Climate Change, Stationery Office, 2008, 9780117039292

Migration and resettlement associated with climate change

• Timothy J. Hatton. Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Countries of Policy and Performance, The MIT Press, 2006, 9780262083423
• David Corlett. Stormy Weather: The Challenge of Climate Change and Displacement, University of New South Wales (Australia), 2008, 9781742230085

Conflicts and climate change

• Tony Allan. The Middle East Water Question: Hydropolitics and the Global Economy, I. B. Tauris, new edition 2001, 1860648134
• Hans Brauch, P. H. Liotta, Antonio Marquina et al (eds.). Security and Environment in the Mediterranean: Conceptualising Security Conflicts, Springer, 2003, 3540401075
• Tersfaye Tafesse. The Nile Question: Hydropolitics, Legal Wrangling, Modus Vivendi and Perspectives, Lit Verlag, Germany, 2002, 3825856305
• Michael T. Klare. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict, Palgrave Macmillan/Owl Books, 2002, 0805055762

Politics and psychology

• Pamela S. Chasek, Janet W. Brown, David L. Downie. Global Environmental Politics, Westview Press, US, 4th edition, 2006, 0813343321
• Paul Gordon Harris (ed). Global Warming and East Asia: The Domestic and International Politics of Climate Change, Routledge Curzon, 2003, 0415315441
• Mark Lacy. Security and Climate Change, Routledge, 2005, 0415324084
• Susanne Moser and Lisa Dilling. Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, Cambridge University Press, February 2007, 0521869234
• Peter Newell. Climate for Change: Non-State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 0521021235
• Timothy O'Riordan and Jill Jager. Politics of Climate Change: A European Perspective, Routledge, 1996, 041512574X
• Rutherford H. Platt. Disasters and Democracy: The Politics of Extreme Natural Events, Island Press, 1999, 1559636963
• Robert Repetto (ed.) with foreword by James Gustave Speth. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy, Yale University Press, 2006, 0300110766
• Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, Houghton Mifflin, 2007, 9780618658251 (hbk)
• Anthony Giddens. The Politics of Climate Change, Polity Press, 2009, 9780745646930
• David Shearman and Joseph Wayne Smith. The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy, Greenwood Press, 2007, 9780313345043

Governance, negotiation and co-operation: at local, regional, national and international levels

• Ulrich Bartsch and Benito Muller. Fossil Fuels in a Changing Climate: Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol and Developing Country Participation, Oxford University Press, 2000, 0197300243
• Kevin Baumert, Timothy Herzog and Jonathan Pershing. Navigating the Numbers: Greenhouse Gases and International Climate Change Agreements, World Resources Institute, US, 2005, 1569735999
• Kevin Baumert. Building on the Kyoto Protocol: Options for Protecting the Climate, World Resources Institute, US, 2002, 1569735247
• Joachim Blatter, Helen Ingram et al. Reflections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation, The MIT Press, 2001, 0262522845
• Tom Delay and Michael Grubb. Cutting carbon in Europe: the 2020 plans and the future of the EU ETS, The Carbon Trust, 2008
• Joanna Depledge. The Organization of Global Negotiations: Constructing the Climate Change Regime, Earthscan Publications, 2005, 1844070468
• Pooran Desai and Sue Riddlestone. Bioregional Solutions (Schumacher Briefing no. 8), Green Books, 2002, 1903998077, £6
• Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Olufemi Elias, Vaughan Lowe. Watercourse Co-operation in Northern Europe: A Model for the Future, Asser Press, 2004, 9067041726
• Tim Forsyth. International investment and climate change: energy technologies for developing countries, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1999, 1853836222
• Michael Grubb. Energy policies and the greenhouse effect: volume one: policy appraisal, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1991, 1855212846
• Michael Grubb [et al.]. Energy policies and the greenhouse effect: volume two: country studies and technical options, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1991, 185521198X
• Christopher C. Joyner. Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection, University of South Carolina Press, 1998, 1570032742
• Lennart J. Lundqvist and Anders Biel. From Kyoto to the Town Hall: Making International and National Climate Policy Work at the Local Level, Earthscan, March 2007, 1844074234
• Clark Miller and Paul Edwards. Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance, The MIT Press, 2001, 0262632195
• Thomas Gale Moore. In Sickness or in Health: The Kyoto Protocol Versus Global Warming (Essays in Public Policy, No. 104), Hoover Institute Press (Stanford University), 2000, 0817943927
• Gustavo Lins Ribeiro. Transnational Capitalism and Hydropolitics in Argentina: The Yacyreta High Dam, University Press of Florida, 1994, 0813012805
• Ian Rowlands (ed). Climate Change Cooperation in Southern Africa, Earthscan, 1998, 185383520X
• James Gustave Speth. Global Environmental Governance: Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies, Island Press, US, 2006, 1597260819
• Steen, Nicola (ed.). Sustainable development and the energy industries: Implementation and impacts of environmental legislation, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1994, 1853832103
• Kenneth Strzepek and Joel B. Smith. As Climate Changes: International Impacts and Implications, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 0521467969
• United Nations; Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Regional Cooperation on Climate Change, United Nations, 1998, 9211198550
• David G. Victor. The Collapse of The Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming, Princeton University Press, 2001, 0691120269
• Ernst U. von Weizsacker, Sebastian Oberthur and Hermann Ott. The Kyoto Protocol: International Climate Policy for the 21st Century, Springer Verlag, 1999, 354066470X
• Farhana Yamin and Joanna Depledge. The International Climate Change Regime: A Guide to Rules, Institutions and Procedures, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 0521600596
• Oran R. Young. The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, and Scale, The MIT Press, 2002, 0262740249
• Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos. Only one earth: the care and maintenance of a small planet, Penguin, 1972, 0140216014
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Methodological and technological issues in technology transfer, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 0521804949
• David Cromwell and Mark Levene (eds.) Surviving climate change: the struggle to avert global catastrophe, Pluto Press, 2007, 9780745325675
• Mayer Hillman. How We Can Save the Planet, Penguin Books, 2004, 9780141016924
• Bill McKibben. Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community, Holt Paperbacks, 2007, 9780805087048
• Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins (eds). Architecture for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in a Post-Kyoto World, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 9780521692175
• J. Gupta and M. Grubb. Climate change and European leadership: a sustainable role for Europe? Kluwer Academic, 2000, 079236466X
• M. Grubb, C Vrolijk et al. The Kyoto protocol: a guide and assessment, Royal Institute of International Affairs Energy and Environmental Programme, 1999, 1853835803
• Michael Faure, Joyeeta Gupta and Andries Nentjes (eds). Climate change and the Kyoto Protocol: the role of institutions and instruments to control global change, Edward Elgar, 2003, 1843762455
• Olav Schram Stokke, Jon Hovi and Geir Ulfstein (eds). Implementing the climate regime: international compliance, Earthscan, 2005, 1844071618
• David Freestone and Charlotte Streck (eds). Legal aspects of implementing the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms: making Kyoto work, OUP 0199279616
• Bert Bolin. A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 9780521088732
• Oliver Tickell. Kyoto 2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse, Zed Books, 2008, 9781848130258
• Ernesto Zedillo. Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto, Brookings Institute (US), 2007, 9780815797159
• Scott Barrett. Environment and statecraft: the strategy of environmental treaty-making, Oxford University Press, 2005, 9780199286096

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