GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 2015, INTRODUCTION 1: MODERN NATURES
Date
2 Sept, 13:15-15:00
Theme
Introduction to Global Environmental History
Teacher
Gunnel Cederlöf
Mosley, Stephen (2010). The Environment in World History. London & New York, Routledge: 1-116.
9 Sept, 2 hours
student led literature group
11 Sept, 13:15-15:00
Deep time processes of socio-natural
interactions
Anneli Ekblom
Radkau, J. (2008). Nature and Power. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1-85, 87-142.
Goudie, A. (2006). ‘Chapter 1. Introduction’, in The Human Impact on the Natural Environment. Sixth
edition. Oxford, Blackwell: 7-22.
16 Sept, 2 hours
18 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.
23 Sept, 2 hours
25 Sept, 13:15-15:00
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.
30 Sept, 2 hours
2 Oct, 13:15-15:00
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)
7 Oct, 2 hours
9 Oct, 13:15-15:00
student led literature group
Lessons from environmental history for the
making of policy
Anneli Ekblom
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.
Guldi, Jo, and Armitage, D. 2014. The History Manifesto, 164 pp.
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.
14 Oct, 2 hours
student led literature group
16 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.
21 Oct, 2 hours
student led literature group
23 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.
27 Oct, 10:15-12:00
Final preparations for the excursion
Gunnel Cederlöf and
second year students
28 Oct, full day
6 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