This readings overview is provided as an openly-available list of the readings for this course.
LEARNING INTENSIVE READINGS
Indigenous World Views
Gram-Hanssen, I., Schafenacker, N. & Bentz, J.(2021). Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’. Sustainability Science.
Smith, L.T. (2012). Colonizing knowledges. Chapter 3. In, L. T. Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies Research and Indigenous Peoples, 2nd Edition, pp. 117-143. Zed Books [Available through the Ebook Central e-book database*].
What Reconciliation is and What it is not
Resilience By Design Lab (2022). Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives on Climate Adaptation. Module 1: Historical Context of Indigenous Environmental Management
Additional Resources – Optional
Whyte, K.P. (2017). Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene (February 28, 2017). Available from SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2925514
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
First Nations Information Governance Centre: The First Nations Principles of OCAP
TriCouncil Research Ethics: TCPS Chapter 9: Research Involving the First nations, Inuit, and Metis Peoples of Canada
Lands Advisory Board Resource Centre. Signatory Communities Map
Center for Indigenous Environmental Resources: Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit
Resilience By Design Lab, Royal Roads University: Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives on Climate Adaptation
Indigenous Corporate Training Inc: Meaningful Consultation with Indigenous Peoples
Christian Aboriginal Infrastructure Developments: Indigenous Defined Meaningful Consultation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Free Prior and Informed Consent: An Indigenous peoples right and a good practice for local communities.
World Population Review: Canada Population
Government of Canada: Building Relationships and Advancing Reconciliation through Meaningful Consultation
BC Government Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy: Consulting with First Nations
Squamish Lil’wat Culture Centre: Indigenous Youth Ambassador Program
Critical Academic Blogs
The ultimate guide to starting an academic blog
Setting up your blog: What is Web Space
McBeth (2020). Creative Commons Licensing (30 min)
Tips for Academic Reading and Writing
Open Learning
DeVries, I. (2020). Open Learning Primer.
Jenkins, H. Participatory Culture Video: (8min)
Thomson River University (n.d.) Digital Detox.
Transdisciplinary Thinking
Corman, I. & Cox, R. (2020). Transdisciplinary Thinking in the context of the MACAL program. Paper produced for MACAL
Transdisciplinary Learning: All Mixed Up [review the text and the short embedded video]
Transdisciplinary Approaches and Climate Action
Climate Science & solutions
MIT Climate Primer: https://climateprimer.mit.edu/climate-science
Complexity and Systems Thinking
Dixon, T.H. (2011). “Complexity Science,” Oxford Leadership Journal, vol. 2, iss. 1: pp 1-15. (1 hour)
Goodchild, M. et al., (2021). Relational Systems Thinking: That’s how change is going to come, from Our Mother Earth. Journal of Awareness Based Systems Change 1(1), 75-103
Meadows, D.H. (2008). Leverage Points—Places to Intervene. In D. Wright (ed.), Thinking in Systems: A Primer. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
Climate Impacts, Adaptation, and Policy
Climate Action: Designing with Policy in Mind (1 hour webinar)
St.Denis (2022). Inside June’s deadly heat dome. And surviving the next one. The Tyee. (45 min)
Henderson, S. B., McLean, K. E., Lee, M. J., & Kosatsky, T. (2022). Analysis of community deaths during the catastrophic 2021 heat dome: Early evidence to inform the public health response during subsequent events in greater Vancouver, Canada. Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.), 6(1), e189. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835552/ (1 hour)Adger, W.N., Arnell, N.W., and Tompkins, E.L. (2005). Successful adaptation to climate change across scales. Global Environmental Change, 15, 77-86.
Additional/optional resources
Bush, E. and Lemmen, D.S., editors (2019). Canada’s Changing Climate Report.Chapters 1 & 2. Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Alexander, C. et al. (2011). Linking Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change BioScience, Vol. 61 (6), 477-484
Swart, R. Biesbroek, R. and Capela, L.T., (2014) Science of adaptation to climate change and science for adaptation. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2, 29p.
Bednar, D, Raikes, J., and McBean, G. (2018). The governance of climate change adaptation in Canada. Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction Research Paper Series, 60, Report on Multi-sector Multi-level Workshops and Expert Insights. Retrieve from https://www.iclr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cca-climate-change-report-2018.pdf
Design Thinking readings
Cankurtaran, P. & Beverland,M.B. (2020). Using design thinking to respond to crises: B2B lessons from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Industrial Marketing Management, 88, 255-260. ISSN 0019-8501
Standford Design Thinking Crash Course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmjyZPibH14 (1:20min)
Review this playlist: Specifically – what is a Maker Day see: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq6A_b5nyw_DRKryN_DcOdiuEv3OjQJQ8
Additional Resources
https://malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca/lrnt524/files/2018/11/v2LRNT524_DesignThinkingProcess.pdf
https://commons.royalroads.ca/takingmaking/taking-making-into-classrooms-2/
Climate Resilience & Hope
What Could Go Right? Webinar with Susi Moser Hope Requires Uncertainty
Per Epsen Stokes How to transform apocalypse fatigue into climate action
Writing
RRU library guide on getting started with Mendelay
Zotero – Citation managers overview on RRU library website
UNITS 3-6 – ADDITIONAL readings as the course progresses
Subsequent CALS 501 Seminars will focus on different topics related to Climate Adaptation. The following readings support a deeper dive into adaptation
Communicating Climate Risk
Unit 5: Roberts, De Meyer & Hubble-Rose, 2021. Communicating climate risk: a handbook, Climate Action Unit, University College London. London, United Kingdom. DOI: 10.14324/000.rp.10137325
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Transformative Adaptation
Biagini, B., Bierbaum, R., Stults, M. Dobardzic, S. and McNeeley, S.M. (2014). A typology of adaptation actions: A global look at climate adaptation actions financed through the Global Environment Facility. Global Environmental Change, 25, 97-108.
Lonsdale, K., Pringle, P. and Turner, B. (2015). Transformative adaptation: what it is, why it matters & what is needed. UK CLimate Impacts Programme, University of Oxford, Oxford UK. ukcip.org.uk
Pelling, M. (2011). Part II: The resilience-transition-transformation Framework (3) Adaptation as resilience: social learning and self organization; (4) Adaptation as transition: risk and governance; (5) Adaptation as transformation: risk society, human security, and the social contract, Adaptation to Climate Change: From resilience to transformation. Routledge
Climate Change & Climate Adaptation
Brink, E., & Wamsler, C. (2018). Citizen engagement in climate adaptation surveyed: The role of values, worldviews, gender and place. Journal of Cleaner Production, 208, pp. 1342-1353
Folke, C., S. R. Carpenter, B. Walker, M. Scheffer, T. Chapin, and J. Rockström. 2010. Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability. Ecology and Society15(4): 20. [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art20/.
Holland, J. H. (2014). Complexity: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Levina, E. & Tirpak, D. (2006). Adaptation to Climate: Key Terms. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Rodima-Taylor, D., et al., (2011). Adaptation as innovation, innovation as adaptation: An institutional approach to climate change, Applied Geography(2011), doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.10.011
Walker, B., C. S. Holling, S. R. Carpenter, and A. Kinzig. 2004. Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social–ecological systems. Ecology and Society 9(2).
2050: Degrees of Change Podcast
Indigenous Worldview & Climate Change
There are many readings that can help cultivate an understanding the history of colonization and Indigenous peoples in Canada. We recommend reading the full TRC report, see: Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Actionand some of the following:
Indigenous Canada: a free, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies University of Alberta that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada.
The entirety of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Kimmerer, R.W. (2013 ). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants. Milkweed Editions.
Lickers, M. (2016). Indigenous youth leadership development: rediscovering youth leadership. [Doctoral dissertation, Royal Roads University]. VIURRSpace. RRU Student Research Collection. Retrieved from https://viurrspace.ca/handle/10170/907
In addition, you may want to review this resource created by Associate Faculty member Teara Fraserand Master of Leadership alumnus Kiana Alexander-Hill. This is a visual compilation of Indigenous Literatures, Stories, and Knowledges created by Teara and Kiana as a decolonized approach to knowledge-sharing: https://www.flipsnack.com/raveninstitute/indigenous-literatures-stories-knowledges/full-view.html
Complexity and Systems Thinking
Gell-Mann, M. (1997). “The Simple and the Complex,” in David S. Alberts and Thomas J. Czerwinski (eds.), Complexity, Global Politics, and National Security. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University. Pages 2-12.
Holling, C.S. (2001). Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems. Ecosystems, 4. pp. 390-405.
Homer-Dixon, T et al. (2014). The Conceptual Structure of Social Disputes: Cognitive Affective Maps as a Tool for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. SAGE Open, vol. 4 (1), pp.
Additional readings (Optional)
Donella H. Meadows (2008). Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Edited by Diana Wright. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.
David Peter Stroh (2015). Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.
Charles A. S. Hall (2017). Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Melanie Mitchell (2009). Complexity: A Guided Tour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.