To think about when reading articles

1) What motivated the study?

2) What were the main research questions and why?

3) What are the main sources of information did they refer to?

4) What method of data generation and analysis did they use? Are these appropriate for these data?

5) Does the study represent a population or a sample?

7) What are the main findings? How do these contribute to differ from other main findings in this field?

8) what are the main conclusions? Were the research questions adequately answered?

Climate Change and Conflict Class

Class begins on Monday, February 8th from 2-4

Please note that on Wednesdays class is held from 1-3 instead of 2-4

Final paper for class is due on April 9th: paper will be an exploration of an African conflict believed to be influenced by environmental variation

Week 1: Environmental Security-- Climate and Conflict

Day 1: Introductions and an Overview of the Field

Climate changes and Conflict

For class, please review:

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/spm.html

One of these reports:

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch9.html

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch8.html

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch10.html

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch10.html

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch16.html

And please read the first two articles listed below:

generations article

homer dixon 1

And read at least one of the articles listed below (note- the first link contains 5 separate pieces)

http://wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/report1a.pdf#page=3

This link is about 'resource wars'

Day 2a: Tenets of Environmental Security

Day 2b: Evidence and Case Studies for Environmental Security

Readings for class:

Readings for Week 2:

Kaplan

Homer Dixon 2

Homer Dixon 3

Burke

Hague and Ellingson

Tol

Kahl

Week 2: Monday February 15th

PLEASE NOTE THAT CLASS ON WEDNESDAY IS MOVED TO TUESDAY IN LIBRARY FROM THREE TO FIVE

Day 1: The Politics of Environmental Security

Readings:

Gleditsch

Raleigh and Urdal

Nordas and Gleditsch

Political geography special issue 1

Political geography special issue 2

Political geography special issue 3

Political geography special issue 4

Kevane & Gray 

Day 2: The Critiques of the Environmental Security Narrative

Readings:

Readings for Week 3

Turner 2004

Raleigh 2010

TA Benjaminsen

Barnett

Hartmann

Week 3: Political Ecology and Local Approaches

Day 1: Political Ecologies and Questioning Security

Readings for Wednesday:

Day 2a: Local Environmental Security Narratives

Readings:

Raleigh and Jordan

Day 2b: Markets, Migration, Food Insecurity and other Possible Stories

Famine 1
Famine_watts
Food Security and Social Protection
Food Security 2
Food Security 3
New directions for ag
Food Security_framework