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Readings Overview

This readings overview is provided as an openly-available list of the readings for this course.

Current registered students should access the official readings list for this course: use the links provided below the resources menu, or in Moodle.

Required Readings and Resources:

Indigenous World Views and Climate Change

Gram-Hanssen, I., Schafenacker, N. & Bentz, J.(2021). Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’. Sustainability Science. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00960-9

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.

What Reconciliation is and What it is no

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

Critical Academic Blogs

The ultimate guide to starting an academic blog 

Setting up your blog: What is Web Space

Tips for Academic Reading and Writing  

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

ClimateAdaptation

Adger, W.N., Arnell, N.W., and Tompkins, E.L. (2005). Successful adaptation to climate change across scales. Global Environmental Change, 15, 77-86.

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.

Learning Online

Veletsianos, G. (2020). Learning Online: The Student Experience. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Open Learning Practices

DeVries, I. (2020). Open Learning Primer. (program provided; cc licensed)

Stewart, B., Phipps, L., & Cormier, D. (2019, April 10). The Participatory open: Can we build a Pro-Social, Pro-Societal web? [Video]. You Tube.

Complexity and Systems Thinking

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.

Scheffer, M. (2009). Critical Transitions in Nature and Society. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Chapter 2, “Alternative Stable States,” and Chapter 7, “Lakes”.

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/

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 Adaptation & Policy

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

Complex Adaptive Systems readings

Holling, C.S. (2001). Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social SystemsEcosystems, 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 ResolutionSAGE Open, vol. 4 (1), pp.

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

Other required readings as the course progresses

Due to the focus on the MACAL 501 design challenge, the readings for subsequent units will be driven by what is identified by the students as being needed as they work through their design challenge. In addition, there may be readings that are required in advance of Seminar 4 which will be determined by the Seminar 4 speakers and the Course Instructor.

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 transformabilityEcology 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.

Writing

Four Feathers Writing Guide

RRU library guide on getting started with Mendelay

Zotero – Citation managers overview on RRU library website

Liquid Text

Open Educational Practices

Khoo, S. (2019, April 11). Openings: bounded (in) equities: entangled lives. [Video]. YouTube https://oer19.oerconf.org/sessions/welcome-from-the-co-chairs-and-keynote-by-su-ming-khoo/

2018 MALAT Virtual Symposium Clint LalondeTopic: Sharing and CC licensing Link to Recorded Session (0:00 – 58:20) *please note we had some technical issues happen during this session so the video and audio may be slightly out of synch.