A Bren School of Environmental Science and Management Course.

This seminar is planned as a multidisciplinary, team taught course. Suggestions from practitioners and academics on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation research and readings for the course would be welcome.

The seminar will emphasise coupled human and natural systems as a research field of increasing significance. It would be a pleasure to incorporate wider advice and assistance in the development of this new course. The next planning meeting is set to occur in September. Please contact info@gsdprogram.org

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Click here for Powerpoint presentation on the Anthropocene Era

Course Readings:

Course Book: Panarchy:Understanding Transformations in Systems of Humans and Nature. Lance H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling http://www.islandpress.org/books/detail.html?cart=108784408924118&SKU=1-55963-856-7

Schoon, "A Short Historical Overview of the Concepts of Resilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptation"

Janssen et al, "Scholarly Networks on Resilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptation" (Powerpoint Presentation)

Diamond, Jared."The Last Americans."

Turner & McCandless, "How Humankind Came to Rival Nature: A Brief History of the Human-Environment Condition and the Lessons Learned" (Schellnhuber et al., Earth System Analysis for Sustainability 227-243) - please copy from master

Steffen et al., "The Anthropocene Era" Global Change and the Earth System, Chapter 3, 81-141 - please copy from master

Holling and Gunderson eds., Panarchy, 3-62

Carpenter et al., "From Metaphor to Measurement"

Turner et al. "A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science"

Turner et al., "Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: Three case studies

NRC (1996) The Bering Sea Ecosystem. Executive Summary. pp. 1-6 - e-version or master copy pending

Jackson, et al. "Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems."

Pauly, et al. "The Future for Fisheries."

Bellwood, et al. "Confronting the coral reef crisis."

Feely, "Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans"

Roemmitch and McGowan. "Climatic Warming and the Decline of Zooplankton in the California Current."

Kinzig et al., "Group Report: Sustainability" (Schellnhuber et al., Earth System Analysis for Sustainability 409-434) - please copy from master

Walker, et al. "Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems."

Young. "Matching Institutions and Ecosystems" - e-version or master copy pending

Young, "Institutional Dynamics: Resilience and Vulnerability in Environmental and Resource Regimes"

IPCC on adaptation to climate change

Clark, Mitchell, Cash, Alcock. "Information as Influence: How Institutions Mediate the Impact of Scientific Assessments on Global Environmental Affairs."

Chapin, et al. Polar Systems: Condition and Trends Assessment. (Publication pending)

Chapin, et al. Resilience and Vulnerability of Northern Regions to Social and Environmental Change (Publication pending)

Vitousek, et al; Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle

Anderies, et al; Grazing Management, Resilience, and the Dynamics of a Fire-driven Rangeland System

Chapin et al (2000); Consequences of changing biodiversity

Canadell, P. (2005); Vulnerabilities of the global carbon cycle in the 21st Century

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) (2004) Impacts of a Warming Arctic. 2-20, 106-111

Field, C.B. and Raupach, Michael, Eds. (2004); The Global Carbon Cycle. 1-44

 

Further readings: