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 not
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 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.
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 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.
Writing
RRU library guide on getting started with Mendelay
Zotero – Citation managers overview on RRU library website
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.