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Readings Overview

This readings overview is provided as an openly-available list of the readings for this course. It is subject to change after undergoing copyright review

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:

Unit 1

The Problem – Why climate leadership matters.

REQUIRED (2 hours)

(Podcast Episode) Sowmya Balendiran, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer Sea6 Energy (India)

(video) Service, C. S. of P. (2022, June 20). EXecuTALK: The Role of the Executive in the Fight Against Climate Change (TRN4-V28). Www.csps-Efpc.gc.ca. https://www.csps-efpc.gc.ca/video/executalk/climate-change-eng.aspx

Kanter, M.K. (Sept 25, 2012). Ten reasons people resist change. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2012/09/ten-reasons-people-resist-chang

Page, N., & Page, M. (2014). Climate change: time to Do Something Different. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01294

Yale Experts Explain Intersectionality and Climate Change | Yale Sustainability. (2022, July 28). Sustainability.yale.edu. https://sustainability.yale.edu/explainers/yale-experts-explain-intersectionality-and-climate-change

‌Elevating Organization-Wide Capacity and Culture on Climate Change is Paramount. Association of Climate Change Officers. Retrieved March 16, 2023, from https://climateofficers.org/insights/2021/10/30/elevating-organization-wide-capacity-and-culture-on-climate-change-is-paramount

OPTIONAL

Thought Leaders. United Nations. Retrieved March 16, 2023, from https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/thought-leaders

Julia Robertson Hathaway (2020) Climate Change, the Intersectional Imperative, and the Opportunity of the Green New Deal, Environmental Communication, 14:1, 13-22, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2019.1629977

Ellie, P. E. (2019). Climate Justice, Gender, and Intersectionality. Yorku.ca. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37137‌Becker, Austin, and Eric Kretsch. “The Leadership Void for Climate Adaptation Planning: Case Study of the Port of Providence (Rhode Island, United States).” Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 7, 2019. Frontiers, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2019.00029.

Unit 2 Required Readings and resources

The Vision – What we need instead. 

REQUIRED (2 hours)

(Video – in production) Adam Lerner, Knowledges Lead, Solvable Solutions

(video) How to build a climate resilient economy – Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change & Finance

“Theory of Change: Creating a Social Mandate for Climate Action.” Climate Outreach, https://climateoutreach.org/reports/theory-of-change/. Accessed 16 Mar. 2023.

“7 Leaders on Innovative Approaches for Tackling Climate Change.” World Economic Forum, 12 Nov. 2022, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/cop27-innovation-leaders-climate-change/.

Ross, D., Leonar, B., Inayatullah, S. (2022). Leadership Beyond the Great Pause: Climate change and other Wicked Problems https://jfsdigital.org/2022-2/vol-26-no-4-june-2022/leadership-beyond-the-great-pause-climate-change-and-other-wicked-problems/

OPTIONAL

(video) Al Gore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AgERmsgevg&t=794s

Sanford, Carol, et al. Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Institutions and Humans. Edited by Ben Haggard, InterOctave, Inc, 2022.

Touchant, L. (2022), “Municipal climate leadership in Canada: the role of leadership in the expansion of municipal climate action”, International Journal of Public Leadership, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPL-08-2021-0040

Vignola, R., Leclerc, G., Morales, M., & Gonzalez, J. (2017). Leadership for moving the climate change adaptation agenda from planning to action. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 26, 84-89. ISSN 1877-3435, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.03.005.

Unit 3 Required Readings and resources

The Approach – How we make change happen.

REQUIRED (2:15 hours)

(Podcast Episode) Margot A. Hurlbert, Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability Policy; Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina

Indigenous Knowledges and Climate Change | Climate Atlas of Canada. (n.d.). Climateatlas.ca. https://climateatlas.ca/indigenous-knowledges-and-climate-change

Cameron, L., Courchene, D., Ijaz, S. et al. ‘A change of heart’: Indigenous perspectives from the Onjisay Aki Summit on climate change. Climatic Change 164, 43 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03000-8

DeRue, S.D. (2011). Adaptive leadership theory: Leading and following as a complex adaptive process, Research in Organizational Behavior, 31,125-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2011.09.007

Fisher, S, Garside, et al. (2016). Planning and implementing climate change responses in the context of uncertainty: exploring the importance of social learning and the processes of decision-making. IIED Working Paper. IIED, London. https://pubs.iied.org/10172IIED

Grashow, A., Linsky, M., and Heifetz, R. (2009). The practice of adaptive leadership. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e82693f000aa1300138cb94/t/60171e947e495b34f3663cb1/1612127893039/The+Practice+Of+Adaptive+Leadership.pdf

 Uhl-Bien, M. and Arena, M. (2017). Complexity leadership: Enabling people and organizations for adaptability, Organizational Dynamics 46 (1),  9-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2016.12.001

OPTIONAL

Ansell, C., & Gash, A. (2008). Collaborative governance in theory and practice. Journal of public administration research and theory, 18(4), 543-571. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313080007_Collaborative_governance_in_theory_and_practice

Cunliffe, A. L., & Eriksen, M. (2011). Relational leadership. Human Relations, 64(11), 1425–1449. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726711418388

CLIMATE LEADERSHIP NOW / the new bar for business action on climate change COALITION. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2023, from https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Climate-Leadership-Now-9-20.pdf

Henry, E., & Wolfgramm, R. (2018). Relational leadership – An indigenous Māori perspective. Leadership, 14(2), 203–219. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715015616282

Hurlbert, Margot. (2017). Solving Climate Change- operationalizing inter and transdisciplinary science and public policy. CSPC. https://sciencepolicy.ca/posts/solving-climate-change-operationalizing-inter-and-transdisciplinary-science-and-public-policy/

Kajsa-Stina Benulic, Marianne Kropf, Björn-Ola Linnér & Victoria Wibeck (2022) The meaning of leadership in polycentric climate action, Environmental Politics, 31:6, 1016-1036, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1970087

McCall, K. (n.d.). Leadership through an Indigenous Lens [Review of Leadership through an Indigenous Lens]. Washington University in St. Louis. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=buder_research#:~:text=Indigenous%20leaders%20may%20use%20socialist,specific%20chiefs%20for%20specific%20purposes4.

McGregor, Sue L. T., and Gabrielle Donnelly. “Transleadership for Transdisciplinary Initiatives.” World Futures, vol. 70, no. 3–4, May 2014, pp. 164–85. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2014.934625

van Norren, D., & Beehner, C. (2021). Sustainability leadership, UNESCO competencies for SDGs, and diverse leadership models [Review of Sustainability leadership, UNESCO competencies for SDGs, and diverse leadership models]. International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 10(1), 24–49. https://isdsnet.com/ijds-v10n1-03.pdf

Wolfgramm, R., Tuazon, G.F. (2020). Transformative Leadership and Transdisciplinary Research: Synergies to Address Climate Change. In: Leal Filho, W., Luetz, J., Ayal, D. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3_158-1

Unit 4 Required Readings and resources

The Resources – What we need in our toolkit.

REQUIRED (2 hours)

(Podcast episode) Norm Connolly, Sustainability Manager, Sustainability & District Energy, City of Richmond BC

(Podcast episode) Tamsin Lyle,  Principal and founding engineer at Ebbwater Consulting Flood management

Behavioral Economics | Psychology Today Canada. https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/basics/behavioral-economics. Accessed 16 Mar. 2023.

“Putting Behavioural Science to Work in Climate Action Planning.” Progressing Planning, 17 Aug. 2020, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/progressingplanning/2020/08/17/putting-behavioural-science-to-work-in-climate-action-planning/.

Davidson, B. (2018)The role of narrative change in influencing policy. The Communication Initiative Network. Retrieved March 16, 2023, from https://www.comminit.com/content/role-narrative-change-influencing-policy

Greenberg, S. S., & Karak, M. (2020). Using Design Thinking to Tackle Climate Change When ‘What You Know No Longer Works.’ Stanford Social Innovation Review. https://doi.org/10.48558/PQ3Z-M311

Hall, J., & Hammond, S. (n.d.). What is Appreciative Inquiry? https://www.ngobg.info/uf/documents/49/756whatisai.pdf

Scoblic, J. Peter. “Learning from the Future.” Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2020. hbr.org, https://hbr.org/2020/07/learning-from-the-future.

What Is Foresight? – Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. https://www.oecd.org/strategic-foresight/whatisforesight/. Accessed 16 Mar. 2023.

OPTIONAL

Cooperider, D. (n.d.). Beyond Problem-solving to AI – David Cooperrider.  https://www.davidcooperrider.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/BeyondProblemSolving-x.pdf

Fighting Climate Change with Behavioural Insights | UBC Sauder School of Business. https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/news/school-news/fighting-climate-change-behavioural-insights. Accessed 16 Mar. 2023

FRAMING THE FUTURE A GUIDE TO STRATEGIC FORESIGHT FRAMING THE FUTURE 2 CONTENTS. (n.d.). https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AGRIP/613d38fc-c2ec-4e1a-b31f-03fa706321aa/UploadedImages/documents/AGRiP_Workbook_FramingTheFuture_FINAL.pdf

Hadridge, P. (2008), “Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight”, Foresight, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 79-80.  https://doi.org/10.1108/14636680810856044

Hansen, H. (2020). Narrative Change: How Changing the Story Can Transform Society, Business, and Ourselves. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/hans18442

Pembina Institute (2018). Alberta Narratives Project.  https://climateoutreach.org/reports/alberta-narratives-project-core-narratives/

Westlake, Steve, A Counter-Narrative to Carbon Supremacy: Do Leaders Who Give Up Flying Because of Climate Change Influence the Attitudes and Behaviour of Others? (October 2, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3283157 or https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3283157

WEF: Al Gore: These are the skills climate leaders must build now

Unit 5 Required Readings and resources

5-8 The Plan – How to lead change for climate action.

REQUIRED (2 hours)

(Podcast episode) Abid Saifee, Senior Director, Product Management ecomedes Sustainable Building

Climate Leaders Playbook. BC Climate Leaders. Retrieved March 16, 2023, from https://bcclimateleaders.ca/playbook/

Alessandro Sancino, Max Stafford, Alessandro Braga & Leslie Budd (2022) What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network, Regional Studies, 56:7, 1224-1233, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.2005244

OPTIONAL

Q.west for Good podcast episodes

Indigenous Climate Hub Resource Library – Indigenous Climate Hub Resource Library. (n.d.). Indigenousclimatehub-Library.ca. Retrieved March 16, 2023, from https://indigenousclimatehub-library.ca

Fitzgerald, J. (2020). Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change. Oxford University Press.

Hofstad, Hege, and Trond Vedeld. “Exploring City Climate Leadership in Theory and Practice: Responding to the Polycentric Challenge.” Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, vol. 23, no. 4, July 2021, pp. 496–509. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1883425.

Leal Filho, W., Luetz, J., & Ayal, D. (Eds.). (2020). Handbook of Climate Change Management. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3

Peevey, M. R., & Wittenberg, D. O. (2017). California goes green : a roadmap to climate leadership. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Duncan Liefferink & Diarmuid Torney (2019) Pioneers, leaders and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance, Environmental Politics, 28:1, 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2019.1522033

Stina Ellevseth Oseland (2019) Breaking silos: can cities break down institutional barriers in climate planning?, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 21:4, 345-357, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623657

Walenta, Jayme. “The Limits to Private-Sector Climate Change Action: The Geographies of Corporate Climate Governance.” Economic Geography, vol. 94, no. 5, Oct. 2018, pp. 461–84. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2018.1474078.