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03/18/17 Sustainable Development 1A | University of Edinburgh
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General Readings (23 items)

'Sustainable Development': Is it a Useful Concept? - Wilfred Beckerman, 1994
Article
Justice, posterity, and the environment - Wilfred Beckerman, Joanna Pasek, 2001
Book | Esp. Chapter 5. Print copies are also held by the library.
The principles of sustainability - Simon Dresner, 2008

Book | Print copies are also held by the library.
Sustainable Development: From Brundtland to Rio 2012 - J. Drexhage, D. Murphy, 2010

Document
Global Biodiversity Outlook

Website
Global warming: the complete briefing - J. T. Houghton, 2009

Book
Prosperity without growth: economics for a finite planet - Tim Jackson, 2009
1/16
Book | Print copies are also held by the library.
Original SDC Report - Prosperity without Growth? - 2009

Webpage
The origins of the modern world: a global and ecological narrative - Robert Marks, 2002
Book
Measuring & modelling sustainable development - Ian Moffatt, Mike D. Wilson, Nick Hanley
, 2001
Book
OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms - 2001

Webpage
Rio +20 Dictionary [a glossary of commonly used terms pertaining to Sustainable

Development]
Document
UK Sustainable Development Commission

Website | The SDC was set up by UK government in 2000, to help decision makers and
advisers embed sustainable development in the four Governments of the UK. As of 31
March 2011 the UK Conservative-Lib Dem Coalition government has withdrawn funding.
The Corner House

Website | Key resource for environmental justice critique and action
Top 50 Sustainability Books - 2010

Webpage | Compiled for The Guardian by Cambridge academics.
The environmental responsibility reader - Martin Reynolds, Chris Blackmore, Mark J. Smith,
2009
Book
Happier people healthier planet: how putting wellbeing first would help sustain life on
Earth - Teresa Belton, 2014
Book
Sustainability: New Questions, New Answers

Document
This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate - Naomi Klein, 2014
Book
Carbon Brief
Webpage
Low Impact Living Initiative

Webpage
WWFs ecological footprint website

Webpage
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Sustainability and wellbeing: human scale development in practice - Monica Guillen-Royo,

2016
Book | Recommended
Lecture 2 (8 items)
Key Reading (2 items)

The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature - Will
Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, John R. McNeill, 2007-12
Article | Essential
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet - W. Steffen, K.

Richardson, J. Rockstrom, S. E. Cornell, I. Fetzer, E. M. Bennett, R. Biggs, S. R. Carpenter,
W. de Vries, C. A. de Wit, C. Folke, D. Gerten, J. Heinke, G. M. Mace, L. M. Persson, V.
Ramanathan, B. Reyers, S. Sorlin, 2015-02-13
Article | Essential
Recommended Reading (2 items)

Introducing the Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity's Life Support Systems in
the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers - A. D. Barnosky, J. H. Brown, G. C. Daily, R.
Dirzo, A. H. Ehrlich, P. R. Ehrlich, J. T. Eronen, M. Fortelius, E. A. Hadly, E. B. Leopold, H. A.
Mooney, J. P. Myers, R. L. Naylor, S. Palumbi, N. C. Stenseth, M. H. Wake, 2014-02-06
Article | Recommended
Living Planet Report 2014: Summary - WWF

Document | Recommended
Additional Reading (4 items)

Living Beyond Our Means: Natural Assets and Human Well-being - Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment, 2005
Document | Further Reading
Biodiversity, climate change, and ecosystem services - Harold Mooney, Anne Larigauderie,
Manuel Cesario, Thomas Elmquist, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Sandra Lavorel, Georgina M
Mace, Margaret Palmer, Robert Scholes, Tetsukazu Yahara, 2009-10
Article | Further Reading
Let the environment guide our development. - J. Rockstrom, 2010

Audio-visual document | Further Reading
The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration - W. Steffen, W. Broadgate, L.

Deutsch, O. Gaffney, C. Ludwig, 2015-04-01
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Lecture 3 (7 items)

The principles of sustainability - Simon Dresner, 2008
Book | Essential | Introduction and Chapter 5.
Chapter 5 is also available as separate scan (see link).
Prosperity without growth: economics for a finite planet - Tim Jackson, 2009
Book | Essential | Chapter 1. Print copies are also held by the library.

Sustainable development: mapping different approaches - Bill Hopwood, Mary Mellor,
Geoff O'Brien, 2005-02
Sustainable Development Indicators 2015 - Office for National Statistics

Document | Recommended | No need to read every word or examine every chart in this
publication, but take a look at what indicators are being used to measure the three
different areas of sustainability that the UK government has defined.

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005). Living Beyond Our Means: Natural Assets and
Human Well-being: Synthesis - MA Board
Webpage | Further Reading
The forgotten pillar: a definition for the measurement of social sustainability in American
cities - Susan M. Opp, 2016-06-16
Our common future - Gro Harlem Brundtland, World Commission on Environment and
Development, 1987
Book | Further Reading | Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development (pp. 43-66)
Lecture 4 (11 items)

The Origins of Fossil Capital: From Water to Steam in the British Cotton Industry* - Andreas
Malm, 2013-01-01
Article | Essential
The green economy agenda: business as usual or transformational discourse? - Peter

Ferguson, 2015-01-02
Article | Essential
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New Economy of Nature. A critical introduction - T. Fatheuer, 2014
Capitalism and climate change: theoretical discussion, historical development and policy
responses - Max Koch, 2011
Book | Recommended | Chapter 11
Farming for a small planet: agroecology now - F. Moore Lapp, 2016


Friends of the Earth
Webpage | Further Reading
Banking Nature - Delestrac Denis, Sandrine Feydel, 2014

Demain - Tomorrow (Film)

This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate - Naomi Klein, 2014
Book | Further Reading
UpFront - Is capitalism driving climate change?

Going Beyond "Dangerous" Climate Change - K. Anderson, February 2016

Lecture 5 (6 items)
Key Readings (2 items)

The great transformation: the political and economic origins of our time - Karl Polanyi,
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fred L. Block, 2014
Book | Essential | Chapters 3 (pp. 35-44); 6 (pp. 71-80) and 15 (pp. 178-191)
Radical, reformist, and garden-variety neoliberal: coming to terms with urban agriculture's
contradictions - Nathan McClintock, 2014-02-07
Article | Essential

Farming for a small planet: agroecology now - F. Moore Lapp, 2016
5/16
Urban agriculture: Moving towards food sovereignty?

Webpage | Recommended
Additional Readings (2 items)

The New Passive Revolution of the Green Economy and Growth Discourse: Maintaining
the Sustainable Development of Neoliberal Capitalism - Thomas Wanner, 2015-01-02
Can society be commodities all the way down? Post-Polanyian reflections on capitalist
crisis - Nancy Fraser, 2014-10-02
Lecture 6 (9 items)

Consuming the Planet to Excess - J. Urry, 2010-03-01
Article | Essential
Climate change and society: sociological perspectives - American Sociological Association,

2015
Book | Essential | Chapter 4

Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? - Michael F. Maniates, 2001-08
Fair-Trade Coffee and Commodity Fetishism: The Limits of Market-Driven Social Justice -
Gavin Fridell, 2007-12-02

Competing Discourses of Sustainable Consumption: Does the 'Rationalisation of Lifestyles'
Make Sense? - K. Hobson, 2002
Shopping for Sustainability: Can Sustainable Consumption Promote Ecological Citizenship?

- Gill Seyfang, 2005
Defrosting the Freezer: From Novelty to Convenience: A Narrative of Normalization - E.

Shove, D. Southerton, 2000-11-01
6/16
Veblen, Bourdieu, and Conspicuous Consumption - Andrew B. Trigg, 2001-03

RSA animation First as Tragedy, then as Farce - Slavoj Zizek

Audio-visual document | Further Reading | by the philosopher Slavoj Zizek, on cultural
capitalism, charity and Starbucks!
Lecture 7 (7 items)

Climate Change and the Convergence between ENGOs and Business: On the Loss of
Utopian Energies - Jonas Anshelm, Anders Hansson, 2011-02-01
Article | Essential
Consumption, Not CO
Emissions: Reframing Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainability - Robert

Harriss, Bin Shui, 2010-11-15
Article | Essential

Routledge handbook of climate change and society - Constance Lever-Tracy, 2010
Book | Recommended | Perrow, C (2010) Organisations and global warming, Chapter 3,
pp.59-77.
Oil Companies and Climate Change: Inconsistencies between Strategy Formulation and
Implementation? - Ingvild Andreassen Sverud, Jon Birger Skjrseth, 2007
How warm is the corporate response to climate change? Evidence from Pakistan and the
UK - Harish Kumar Jeswani, Walter Wehrmeyer, Yacob Mulugetta, 2008-01
An energy revolution is possible - Friends of the Earth

energy [r]evolution: A sustainable world energy Outlook 2015 - Greenpeace

Lecture 8 (7 items)

Stuck in the slow lane of behavior change? A not-so-superhuman perspective on getting
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out of our cars

Chapter | Essential
Psychology, Climate Change & Sustainable Bahaviour - Alexa Spence, Nick Pidgeon,
2009-12
Article | Essential

Prospects for radical emissions reduction through behavior and lifestyle change - Stuart
Capstick, Irene Lorenzoni, Adam Corner, Lorraine Whitmarsh, 2014-07-04
Geography and global warming: can capitalism be greened? - Andrew Sayer, 2009-09
Overcoming the valueaction gap in environmental policy: Tensions between national

policy and local experience - James Blake, 1999-10
It's not (just) the environment, stupid! Values, motivations, and routes to engagement of
people adopting lower-carbon lifestyles - Rachel A. Howell, 2013-02
A comprehensive model of the psychology of environmental behaviourA meta-analysis -

Christian A. Klckner, 2013-10
Lecture 9 (8 items)

The food movement as polyculture
Chapter | Essential | Chapter 1, pp.1-20
Food and health inequalities: the challenge for sustaining just consumption - Elizabeth
Dowler, 2008-12
Article | Essential

Rainforests are a long way from here: the environmental concerns of disadvantaged
groups - K. Burningham, D. Thrush, 2001
Document | Recommended
The Ecology Establishment

Chapter | Recommended | Chapter 4
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Introducing just sustainabilities
Chapter | Further Reading | Chapter 1
Local and Green, Global and Fair: The Ethical Foodscape and the Politics of Care - Kevin
Morgan, 2010-08
New perspectives on environmental justice: gender, sexuality, and activism - 2004

Book | Further Reading | Ch.1
Environmentalism in popular culture: gender, race, sexuality, and the politics of the
natural - Noel Sturgeon
, 2009

Chapter 1: Nature and space (from Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve
the human condition have failed) - James C. Scott
Chapter | Essential | Ch. 1: Nature and Space. Print copies are also held by the library.
The state: past, present, future - Bob Jessop, 2016

Book | Essential | Part 1, Ch. 2: The concept of the state

Chapter 8: Taming nature: an agriculture of legibility and simplicity (from Seeing like a
state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed) - James C. Scott
Chapter | Recommended | Chapter 8: Taming nature: an agriculture of legibility and
simplicity. Print copies are also held by the library.
Green political strategy and the state: combining political theory and comparative history -
Christian Hunold, Dryzek John
Chapter | Recommended | Hunold, Christian and John Dryzek. 2005. Green political
strategy and the state: combining political theory and comparative history

The origins of the modern world: a global and ecological narrative - Robert Marks, 2002
9/16

Trajectories for Greening in China: Theory and Practice - Peter Ho, 2006-01
Article | Essential
Greening western China: A critical view - Emily T. Yeh, 2009-9

Article | Essential

Hollow Sustainabilities? Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Post-socialist
World - Mark Whitehead, 2010-11
Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China - G. Yang, C. Calhoun,
2007-07-01

The retreat of the elephants: an environmental history of China - Mark Elvin, 2004
China's environmental challenges - Judith Shapiro, 2012

Environmental awareness, governance and public participation: public perception

perspectives - KoonKwai Wong, 2010-04

The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and Chinas new working class - Jenny
Chan, Pun Ngai, Mark Selden, 2013
Article | Essential
States, citizens, and the environment - Andrew Dobson

Chapter | Essential

Development of the RedGreen Environmental Movement in China: A Preliminary Analysis
- Qingzhi Huan, 2014-07-03
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The spatial politics of labor in China: life, labor, and a new generation of migrant workers -
Ngai Pun, J. Chan, 2013

Racing to the bottom: international trade without a social clause - Anita Chan, 2003-12
Trade Unions and NGOs: A Necessary Partnership for Social Development - Dan Gallin,
2000
Webpage | Further Reading | PDF available at:
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpAuxPages%29/5678DFBA8A99EEB780
256B5E004C3737/$file/gallin.pdf
A race to the bottom? Globalization, labor repression, and development by dispossession

in Latin Americas banana industry - Phillip A. Hough, 2012
Chinas road to the construction of labor rights - F. Chen, 2016-03-01

Reflections on Labor in China: From a Moment to a Movement - T. Pringle, 2013-01-01

Lectures 13 (8 items)

Environmental Politics and Sustainable Development (from Global Environmental Politics) -
Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, Janet Welsh Brown
Chapter | Essential | Environmental Politics and Sustainable Development (chapter 6)
Sustainable development and ecological modernisation (from The politics of the

environment: ideas, activism, policy) - Neil Carter
Chapter | Essential | Chapter 8. Print copies are also held by the library.

Sustainable development - Susan Baker, 2006
Book | Recommended
Chapter 12. Sustainable Development: The Institutionalization of a Contested Policy

Concept (from Advances in international environmental politics) - S. Happaerts, H.
Bruyninckx
Chapter | Recommended | Happaerts, S and Bruyninckx, H. (2014) Chapter 12.
Sustainable Development: The Institutionalization of a Contested Policy Concept
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Handbook of sustainable development - Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, Eric Neumayer, 2007
Rio 20: Sustainable Development in a Time of Multilateral Decline - Steven F Bernstein,

2013
Mapping Sustainable Development as a Contested Concept - Steve Connelly, 2007

Chapter 7: International environmental policy (from Environmental policy) - Jane Roberts

Chapter | Further Reading | Chapter 7: International Environmental Policy.

From Declaration to Delivery. Actioning the Post 2015 Agenda - David Steven
Document | Essential
Lost in Transformation? The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals - Malcolm

Langford, 2016
Article | Essential

From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: shifts in
purpose, concept, and politics of global goal setting for development - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,
2016-01-02
Sustainable development goals

Webpage | Recommended

A Pocket Guide To Sustainable Development Governance - 2011
Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future -
NGO Committee on Education
12/16

Notes on the original affluent society
Chapter | Essential | and downloadable from lots of sites, e.g.
http://appropriate-economics.org/materials/Sahlins.pdf
The geography of world happiness - John Helliwell


The Darker Side of the "Original Affluent Society" - David Kaplan, 2000-10
Subjective Well-Being among Adolescent Consumers: The Effects of Materialism,

Compulsive Buying, and Time Affluence - Chris Manolis, James A. Roberts, 2012-6

Time Affluence as a Path toward Personal Happiness and Ethical Business Practice:
Empirical Evidence from Four Studies - Tim Kasser, Kennon M. Sheldon, 2009-1
Ethnocentrism
Chapter | Further Reading
Anthropology
Chapter | Further Reading

Avoiding the Limits to Growth: Gross National Happiness in Bhutan as a Model for
Sustainable Development - Jeremy Brooks, 2013-08-26
Article | Essential
Sufficient Citizens: Moderation and the Politics of Sustainable Development in Thailand - Eli
Elinoff, 2014-05
Article | Essential

Happy Environments: Bhutan, Interdependence and the West - Randy Schroeder, Kent
Schroeder, 2014-05-30
13/16
Thailand's Sufficiency Economy: Origins and Comparisons with Other Systems of Religious
Economics - D. Noy, 2011-12-01

GNH, EI and the well-being of nations: Lessons for public policy makers, with specific
reference to the happiness dividend of tourism - Shaun Vorster, 2012
GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS IN BHUTAN: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION

- Michael S. Givel, 2015-01-02

Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, buen vivir, sumaq kawsay and degrowth - Bob
Thomson, 2011-12
Article | Essential
Debates on development and its alternatives in Latin America. A brief heterodox guide -
Eduardo Gudynas

Development for a postneoliberal era? Sumak kawsay, living well and the limits to
decolonisation in Ecuador - Sarah A. Radcliffe, 2012-3
Buen vivir: Emergent discourse within or beyond sustainable development? - Julien

Vanhulst, Adrian E. Beling, 2014-05

Buen Vivir (living well) in Ecuador: Community and environmental satisfaction without
household material prosperity? - Jorge Guardiola, Fernando Garca-Quero, 2014-11
vs Development: a paradigm shift in the Andes? - Unai Villalba, 2013-09

14/16

Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions - Coenen, Lars; Benneworth,
Paul; Truffer, Bernhard, 2012
Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways - Frank W. Geels, Johan Schot, 2007-4

Article | Essential

Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level
perspective and a case-study - Frank W. Geels, 2002-12
Wind Theft, Spatial Planning and International Relations - Dan van der Horst, Saskia
Vermeylen, 2010

Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy - Gavin
Bridge, Stefan Bouzarovski, Michael Bradshaw, Nick Eyre, 2013-02
Article | Essential
Learning to Love the Landscapes of Carbon-Neutrality - Paul Selman, 2010-04

The uniqueness of the energy security, justice, and governance problem - Andreas
Goldthau, Benjamin K. Sovacool, 2012-02

Exploring the landscape of wind farm developments; local area characteristics and
planning process outcomes in rural England - Dan van der Horst, David Toke, 2010-4
Article | Essential
Strengthening Community Capacity to Participate in Making Decisions to Reduce

Disproportionate Environmental Exposures - Nicholas Freudenberg, Manuel Pastor, Barbara
Israel, 2011-12
Article | Essential
15/16

Imagined publics and engagement around renewable energy technologies in the UK - J.
Barnett, K. Burningham, G. Walker, N. Cass, 2012-01-01
Green On Green: Public perceptions of wind power in Scotland and Ireland - Charles R.
Warren, Carolyn Lumsden, Simone O'Dowd, Richard V. Birnie, 2005-11

NIMBY or not? Exploring the relevance of location and the politics of voiced opinions in
renewable energy siting controversies - Dan van der Horst, 2007-5
Article | Essential
Landscapes of Lost Energy: Counterfactual Geographical Imaginary for A More Sustainable

Society - Dan van der Horst, 2014-01-29
Environmental justice, impact assessment and the politics of knowledge: The implications
of assessing the social distribution of environmental outcomes - Gordon Walker, 2010-9
The Winds of Change: Environmental Justice in Energy Transitions - Gwen Ottinger,

2013-06
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03/18/17 Sustainable Development 1A | University of Edinburgh

Sustainable Development 1A View Online

A student guide to using Resource Lists @ Edinburgh

General Readings (23 items)

The principles of sustainability - Simon Dresner, 2008

Sustainable Development: From Brundtland to Rio 2012 - J. Drexhage, D. Murphy, 2010

Global Biodiversity Outlook

Global warming: the complete briefing - J. T. Houghton, 2009

Book | Print copies are also held by the library.

Original SDC Report - Prosperity without Growth? - 2009

OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms - 2001

Rio +20 Dictionary [a glossary of commonly used terms pertaining to Sustainable

UK Sustainable Development Commission

The Corner House

Top 50 Sustainability Books - 2010

Sustainability: New Questions, New Answers

Low Impact Living Initiative

WWFs ecological footprint website

Sustainability and wellbeing: human scale development in practice - Monica Guillen-Royo,

Key Reading (2 items)

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet - W. Steffen, K.

Recommended Reading (2 items)

Living Planet Report 2014: Summary - WWF

Additional Reading (4 items)

Let the environment guide our development. - J. Rockstrom, 2010

The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration - W. Steffen, W. Broadgate, L.

Key Reading (2 items)

Recommended Reading (2 items)

Sustainable Development Indicators 2015 - Office for National Statistics

Additional Reading (3 items)

Lecture 4 (11 items)

Key Reading (2 items)

The green economy agenda: business as usual or transformational discourse? - Peter

Recommended Reading (3 items)

Farming for a small planet: agroecology now - F. Moore Lapp, 2016

Additional Reading (6 items)

Banking Nature - Delestrac Denis, Sandrine Feydel, 2014

Demain - Tomorrow (Film)

UpFront - Is capitalism driving climate change?

Going Beyond "Dangerous" Climate Change - K. Anderson, February 2016

Key Readings (2 items)

Recommended Reading (2 items)

Urban agriculture: Moving towards food sovereignty?

Additional Readings (2 items)

Key Readings (2 items)

Climate change and society: sociological perspectives - American Sociological Association,

Recommended Reading (2 items)

Additional Readings (5 items)

Shopping for Sustainability: Can Sustainable Consumption Promote Ecological Citizenship?

Defrosting the Freezer: From Novelty to Convenience: A Narrative of Normalization - E.

Veblen, Bourdieu, and Conspicuous Consumption - Andrew B. Trigg, 2001-03

RSA animation First as Tragedy, then as Farce - Slavoj Zizek

Key Reading (2 items)

Emissions: Reframing Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainability - Robert

Additional Reading (5 items)

An energy revolution is possible - Friends of the Earth

energy [r]evolution: A sustainable world energy Outlook 2015 - Greenpeace

Key Reading (2 items)

out of our cars

Additional Reading (5 items)

Overcoming the valueaction gap in environmental policy: Tensions between national

A comprehensive model of the psychology of environmental behaviourA meta-analysis -

Key Reading (2 items)