essential reading for Ecology in a Time of Planetary Crisis

[Elizabeth Allison]

Many thanks to all who responded to my query with so much exciting reading for my students!

I posed the same query to the AESS list, and have pasted below the synthesized list of recommendations I received (in no particular order), and attached my syllabus to this email.

Happy holidays!

Elizabeth Allison, PhD

CIIS

San Francisco, CA

Rambunctious Garden or something else from the re-wilding movement would be great...

Here is a link to a very good article in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/30/anthropocene-epoch-have-we-entered-a-new-phase-of-planetary-history

Erle Ellis' little book Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford Press) is very inexpensive and very good.  

Steffen, W., Broadgate, W., Deutsch, L., Gaffney, O. & Ludwig, C. The trajectory of the Anthropocene: the Great Acceleration. Anthr. Rev. 2, 81–98 (2015).

Liu, J. et al. Systems integration for global sustainability. Science 347, 1258832 (2015).

(Liu's work on telecoupling is really important)

Lastly, there is a website I built to accompany my class that you may find useful  https://theanthropocenedashboard.com

Nystrom, M. et al. 2019. Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem. Nature 575: 98-108.

Lovins, Amory B. et al. 2019. Recalibrating climate prospects.  Environmental Research Letters 14. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab55ab

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, by Roy Scranton

Dahr Jamail's The End of Ice

• while neither new nor per se ecologically oriented I find it worthwhile entertaining Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Honor Code" (2010), i.e. applying his concept of "moral revolutions" to the climate crisis, the inacceptability of burning fossil fuels as a prospective societal driver of decarbonization..

• I've been wondering whether Mark Lynas might come around to revisit and update his "Six Degrees" (2007) in view of recent IPCC reports and, indeed, special reports (apparently not yet...)

• a more obvious, albeit less "catchy" read could be Oran Young's attempt to invoke "social capital for the Anthropocene" (Governing complex systems, 2017)

 

Clive Hamilton. Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene. Polity, 2017.

Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. Verso, 2018.

Frank Fischer. Climate Crisis and the Democratic Prospect: Participatory Governance in Sustainable

Communities. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Bruno Latour. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. Polity Press, 2018.

Roy Scranton (2015) Learning to die in the Anthropocene: reflections on the end of a civilization, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books.

Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (2012) Active hope: how to face the mess we're in without going crazy, Novato, Calif.: New World Library.

Charles Eisenstein, Climate:  A New Story

Buck, Holly Jean. 2019. After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. London: Verso. (one of the most original thinkers on geoengineering currently)

Büscher, Bram and Robert Fletcher. 2019. The Conservation Revolution Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene. London: Verso.

Dunlap, Alexander and Jostein Jakobsen. 2019. The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies and the Capitalist Worldeater. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (short and very provocative...)

Bhavnani, Kum-Kum, John Foran, Priya Kurian, and Debashish Munshi, eds. 2019. Climate Futures: Reimagining Global Climate Justice. London: Zed Books.

If you're interested in Indigenous perspectives:

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. 2019. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. Boston: Beacon Press.

Norgaard, Kari Marie. 2019. Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

And Naomi Klein has a new book on the Green New Deal, an easy read that's very much grounded in current struggles... (I don't have the reference handy).

Ekins, P. and J. Gupta (2019). "Perspective: a healthy planet for healthy people." Global Sustainability 2: e20.

IPBES (2019). Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Bonn, Germany, (Eds) E. S. Brondizio, J. Settele, S. Díaz, and H. T. Ngo. IPBES Secretariat.

UN Environment (2019). Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Schlosberg, David and Craven, Luke (2019). Sustainable Materialism: Environmental Movements and the Politics of Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sustainable-materialism-9780198841500?cc=au&lang=en&

Dryzek, John S and Pickering, Jonathan (2019). The Politics of the Anthropocene. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-the-anthropocene-9780198809623?cc=au&lang=en&

Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’ 

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass

Extinction Rebellion Movement’s book This is Not a Drill

Greta Thunberg’s collection of speeches, No One Is too Small to Make a Difference

Eileen Crist’s Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization

Half Earth by E.O Wilson

The living planet report 

Drawdown

The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann

 

 

 

[jps...@gmail.com]

Thanks for sharing the compiled list, Elizabeth, it will be useful to me.

Just noting, it's surprising how few contributions by women and non-white folks are listed...

Happy break,

JP

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