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64 Questions for the Environmental Conservationists of the World


64 Questions for the Environmental Conservationists of the World (Non-Kairos references)

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Arias-Maldonado, Manuel / Barry, John  (Directors).    Reframing Environmentalism?. Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene. European Consortium for Political Research, Pisa, 2016. [papers]

Carin, Barry.  G20 Rapid Response: the G20 and climate change. Centre for International Governance Innovation, 20 June 2012. [text]

Castaldo, Tony.  Climate cognition constraint clamour. New Scientist, 29 July 2015. [text]

Ceballos, Gerardo / Ehrlich, Paul R. / Dirzo, Rodolfo.  Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, May 2017. [text]

Cerulo, Karen A.  Never Saw It Coming: cultural challenges to envisioning the worst. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Cohen, Stanley.  States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering. Blackwell, 2001.

Cook, J.  Countering climate science denial and communicating scientific consensus. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2016.

Diamond, Jared M.  Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Penguin, 2005.

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Smile Or Die: how positive thinking fooled America and the world. Granta Books, 2010. [summary]

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Bright-sided: how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America. Metropolitan Books, 2009.

Fendrich, Laurie.  We're All Fiddling While the Earth Burns. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 January 2011. [text]

Fien, J. / Tilbury, D.  Education for Sustainability: some questions for reflection. Botanic Gardens Conservation International, 17, 1998. [text]

Ghosh, Amitav.  The Great Derangement: climate change and the unthinkable. University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Gifford, Robert.  33 Reasons why we can't think clearly about climate change. New Scientist, 8 July 2015. [text]

Hall, Shane Donnelly.  Learning to Imagine the Future: the value of affirmative speculation in climate change education. Resilience: a journal of the environmental humanities, 2, 2015, 2. [text]

Handy, Charles B.  The Age of Unreason: new thinking for a new world. Random House, 1989.

Handy, Charles B.  The Empty Raincoat: making sense of the future. Random House, 1995.

Haraway, Donna.  Staying with the Trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene, Duke University Press, 2016. [summary]

Haraway, Donna.  Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene. e-flux, September 2016. [text]

Hatchfield, Pamela  (Ed.).    Ethics and Critical Thinking in Conservation. American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2017. [summary]

Heise, Ursula K.  Imagining Extinction: the cultural meanings of endangered species. University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Mecklin, John.  UCLA's Jon Christensen on the theory and practice of climate change communication. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 27 July 2017. [text]

Michaelson, Jay.  Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project. Stanford Environmental Law Journal, January 1998. [excerpt]

Norgaard, Kari Marie.  Living in Denial. MIT Press, 2011.

Oreskes, Naomi / Conway, Erik M.  Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Press, 2010.

Ormerod, Paul.  Why Most Things Fail: evolution, extinction and economics. Wiley, 2005. [extracts]

Pearce, Warren.  We'll never tackle climate change if academics keep the focus on consensus. The Guardian, 1 August 2017. [text]

Pearce, Warren.  Beyond Counting Climate Consensus. Journal of Environmental Communication, 2017.

Pendrey, Catherine / Griggs, David.  Drivers of Environmental Unsustainability in Australia: a review of the literature. Monash Sustainability Institute for the Australian Conservation Foundation, 2016.

Ramo, Joshua Cooper.  The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

Reyes, Oscar.  Poznan Climate Talks: Fiddling While the Earth Burns. Climate and Capitalism, 17 December 2008. [text]

Sachs, Jeffrey D.  Fiddling while the Planet Burns. Scientific American, 1 October 2006. [text]

Sarewitz, D.  How science makes environmental controversies worse. Environmental Science and Policy, 7, 2004, pp. 385-403.

Saunders, C.  The Emerging Field of Conservation Psychology. Human Ecology Review, 2003, 10, pp. 137-149. [text]

Shapiro, Walter.  Fiddling while the earth burns. Salon, 26 May 2006. [text]

Shaw, Jane S.  Critical Thinking about Environmental Issues: global warming. Greenhaven Press, 2002.

Sutherland, W. J.  One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity. Conservation Biology, 2009. [text]

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  Antifragile: things that gain from disorder. Random House, 2012 [summary]..

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007. [contents]

Walker, Janey / Corben, Therese.  Higher Order Questioning Techniques for All students: Why?. Sydney Region Central North and Central South Learning Assistance Teams. [text]

Wallace-Wells, David.  The Uninhabitable Earth Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: what climate change could wreak -- sooner than you think. New York Magazine, 9 July 2017. [text; annotated version]