GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 2014, INTRODUCTION 1: MODERN NATURES
Date
5 Sept, 15:15-17:00
Theme
Introduction to Global Environmental History
Teacher
Gunnel Cederlöf
Mosley, Stephen (2010). The Environment in World History. London & New York, Routledge: 1-116.
10 Sept, 2 hours
12 Sept, 15:15-17:00
student led literature group
Deep time processes of socio-natural
interactions
Anneli Ekblom
Radkau, J. (2008). Nature and Power. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1-85.
Goudie, A. (2006). ‘Chapter 1. Introduction’, in The Human Impact on the Natural Environment. Sixth
edition. Oxford, Blackwell: 7-22.
Redman C.L and Kinzig P.N. (2003). ‘Resilience of Past Landscapes: Resilience Theory, Society, and the
Longue Durée’. Conservation Ecology 7(1), 14: 1-19. http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss1/art14
Turchin, P., Hall, T.D. (2003). ‘Spatial Synchroneity Along and Within World-Systems: Insights from
Theoretical Ecology’. Journal of World-Systems Research, IX: 37-64.
Scarre, Chris (ed.) (2009). ‘The World Transformed: From Foragers to Farmers to States and Empires’, in
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies, London: Thames & Hudson:
176-199.
17 Sept, 2 hours
19 Sept, 13:15-15:00
student led literature group
Transition or continuity? The watershed of
modernity
Gunnel Cederlöf
Gadgil, Madhav, and Ramachandra Guha (1992 or later editions). This Fissured Land: An Ecological History
of India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press: 113-145 (Chapter 4)
Grove, Richard och Vinita Damodaran (2009). ’Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and Environmental
Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental’, in Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde,
Nature’s End: History and the Environment. Basingstoke: Paulgrave Macmillan: 23-49 (Chapter 1)
Richard Hölzl (2011), ‘Forests in Conflict. Rural populations and the Advent of Modern Forestry in Preindustrial Germany, 1760-1860’, in: Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud und Stephen Mosley, Common Ground:
Integrating the Social and Environmental in History, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011, pp 198-223.
24 Sept, 2 hours
26 Sept, 15:15-17:00
student led literature group
The problem of people
Emil Sandström
Acheson, J. (2011). ‘Ostrom for anthropologists’. International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 5, no 2 August
2011: 319–339.
Johnson, C. (2004). ‘Uncommon ground: The ‘Poverty of History’ in Common Property Discourse.’
Development and Change 35 (3): 407-433.
Cleaver, F. (2002). ‘Reinventing institutions: Bricolage and the Social Embeddeness of Natural Resource
Management’. The European Journal of Development Research. Volume 14. No 2 Dec. 01.
1 Oct, 2 hours
3 Oct, 15:15-17:00
student led literature group
Industrialization, urbanization, energy
consumption and economic growth
Maths Isacsson
Peter N. Stearns (2013). The Industrial Revolution in World History. Westview Press. 4th edition (280 pp)
8 Oct, 2 hours
10 Oct, 13:15-15:00
student led literature group
Lessons from environmental history for the
making of policy
Anneli Ekblom
Scott, J. S. (1998). Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed.
New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 1-8, 342-357.
Radkau, J. (2008). Nature and Power. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 87-142.
Foster, David R (2000). ‘Conservation Lessons and Challenges from Ecological History’. Forest History
Today. Fall: 2-11.
Tainter, J. A., (2006). Social complexity and sustainability. Ecological Complexity 3: 91-103. E-Journal
Tainter, J. A., T. F. H. Allen, A. Little, and T. W. Hoekstra (2003). ‘Resource Transitions and Energy Gain:
Contexts of Organization’. Conservation Ecology 7(3): 4. http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss3/art4/
Davies, Mike (2002) ‘The Political Ecology of Famine, in Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts. El Nino
Famines and the Making of the Third World. London: Verso: 277-310.
15 Oct, 2 hours
student led literature group
21 Oct, 13:15-15:00
Node lecture: Climate, landscape change and
human survival
Carole Crumley
Costanza R, Graumlich L, Steffen W, Crumley C, Dearing J, Hibbard K (2007a) Sustainability or Collapse:
What Can We Learn from Integrating the History of Humans and the Rest of Nature? AMBIO 36, 522-527.
E-journal
Crumley, Carole L. (2007) Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales.
The World System and The Earth System: Global Socio-Environmental Change and Sustainability Since the
Neolithic. Alf Hornborg and Carole Crumley, eds., pp. 15-28. Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press.
Patterson, T.C. 1994. Toward a properly Historical Ecology. In: Crumley, C (ed) Historical ecology: cultural
knowledge and changing landscapes. Santa Fe, Mexico: school of American Research Press.
22 Oct, 2 hours
student led literature group
24 Oct, 13:15-15:00
Policy and politics of environment
Jenny Beckman
Bäckstrand, Karin (2003) ‘Civic Science for Sustainability. Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers and
Citizens in Environmental Governance’, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 3, No. 4: 24-41.
Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Coppolillo, Peter. (2005). ‘Chapter 2. The evolution of Policy’, in
Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture. Princeton University Press: 27-52.
Nilsson, Annika E (2011). ‘Framing and Reframing of Biodiversity: Scale Perspectives and their Implication
for the Science-policy Dialogue’, in International Governance. Colorado Conference Parallel Session II
Wednesday 2-3.30: 1-25.
29 Oct, full day
7 Nov, 13:15-15:00
Policy at stake.
Gunnel Cederlöf and
Node event excursion
second year students
Node event: What have we learnt?
Gunnel Cederlöf