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.
Prior to the course launch date these readings are subject to change.
Unit 1 Readings
Required readings
Tuhiwai Smith, L. (2012). Decolonizing methodologies – Research and Indigenous Peoples. 2nd Edition. Zed Books, pp. 256. Chapters 2 and 7. Retrieved from the Ebook Central e-book database*.
Reed, G., & Kendrick, A. (2018). Including Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Canada’s climate assessment (02 -25-2018v). Draft.
Whitney, C. K., Frid, A., Edgar, B. K., Walkus, J., Siwallace, P., Siwallace, I. L., & Ban, N. C. (2020). “Like the plains people losing the buffalo”: Perceptions of climate change impacts, fisheries management, and adaptation actions by Indigenous peoples in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Ecology and Society, 25(4), 1–17.
Recommended/additional reading
BC Assembly of First Nations. (2020). Cultural rights of First Nations and climate change.
Osborne, N. (2015). Intersectionality and kyriarchy: A framework for approaching power and social justice in planning and climate change adaptation. Planning Theory, 14(2), 130– 151. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095213516443
Unit 2 Readings
Required readings
Smit, B., & Wandel, J. (2006). Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Global Environmental Change, 16, 282–292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.03.008.
CCME. (2021). Guidance on good practices in climate change risk assessment.
Lempert, R. J. (2021). Measuring global climate risk. Nature Climate Change, 11(10), 802–803. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01165-9
Recommended readings
Buse, C. G. (2018). Why should public health agencies across Canada conduct climate change and health vulnerability assessments? Canadian Journal of Public Health, 109(5–6), 782–785. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-018-0118-6.
Otto et al. (2017). Social vulnerability to climate change: a review of concepts and evidence. Regional Environmental Change, 17, 1651- 1662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1105-9.
Schipper, E.L.F and Pelling, M. (2006). Disaster risk, climate change and international development: scope for, and challenges to, integration. Disasters 30(1): 19- 38.
Zscheischler, J., Westra, S., Van Den Hurk, B. J. J. M., Seneviratne, S. I., Ward, P. J., Pitman, A., … Zhang, X. (2018). Future climate risk from compound events. Nature Climate Change, 8(6), 469–477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3
Video
Peeks, Lori (2016) Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience. [Video]
Unit 3 Readings
Recommended resources
Council of Canadian Academies. (2019). Canada’s top climate change risks. Ottawa, ON.
Métis National Council. (2020). Métis Nation climate change and health vulnerability assessment.
Tsleil-Waututh Nation. (2019). Understanding our community’s climate change vulnerabilities. https://twnation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/TWN_CCVA-SUMMARY_FINAL-repaired-canoe-and-pole-Jan-2020.pdf
Infrastructure Canada. (2021). Building pathways to 2050: Moving forward on the national infrastructure assessment.
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. (2019). Preliminary Climate Risk Assessment for BC.
York Region. (2021). York Region climate change and health vulnerability assessment.
BC Agriculture & Food Climate Action Initiative. (2018). Fraser Valley: Adaptation strategies update.
Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture. (2018). Risk proofing Nova Scotia’s agriculture: A risk assessment system pilot (Agririsk) final report.
City of Montreal. (2017). Preliminary resilience assessment.
Zukiwsky, J., Boyd, R., & Wynn, L. R. (2016). Town of Canmore: Climate change adaptation and resilience plan
Unit 4 Readings
Readings
The Greenlining Institute. (2019). Making Equity Real in Climate Adaptation and Community Resilience Policies and Programs.
City of Edmonton. (2018). Climate resilient Edmonton: Adaptation strategy and action plan. https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/documents/Climate_Resilient_Edmonton.pdf
City of Vancouver. (2018). Policy report: 2018 Climate change adaptation strategy update. https://council.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20181205/documents/cfsc1.pdf
Recommended Readings
Government of Canada (2021). Maps of adaptation actions. Retrieved from: https://changingclimate.ca/case-studies/#reports
Canadian Institute of Planners. (2018). Policy on climate change planning. Retrieved from https://cip-icu.ca/Files/Policy-2018/policy-climate-eng-FINAL.aspx
O’Neil, S. J., & Cairns, S. (2017). Defining and scoping municipal natural assets.
Wamsler, C. (2017). Stakeholder involvement in strategic adaptation planning: Transdisciplinarity and co-production at stake? Environmental Science and Policy, 75(February), 148-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.03.016
Unit 5 Readings
Required readings
Shi, L., Chu, E., Anguelovski, I., Aylett, A., Debats, J., Goh, K., … Van Deveer, S. D. (2016). Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research. Nature Climate Change, 6(2), 131–137. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2841
Graham, A., & Mitchell, C. L. (2016). The role of boundary organizations in climate change adaptation from the perspective of municipal practitioners. Climatic Change, 139, 381–395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1799-6
Recommended readings
Haasnoot, M., Biesbroek, R., Lawrence, J., Muccione, V., Lempert, R., & Glavovic, B. (2020). Defining the solution space to accelerate climate change adaptation. Regional Environmental Change, 20(2), 1–5.Oborn, E., &
Rushmer R., Ward V., Nguyen T., Kuchenmüller T. (2019). Knowledge translation: Key concepts, terms and activities. In: Verschuuren M., van Oers H. (eds) Population health monitoring. Springer, Cham.