Bibliography of Literature on Sustainability and Relevant Cultural Theory

Water Sustainability Course

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Bibliography of Literature on Sustainability and Relevant Cultural Theory

Robert Turner – 2014

This bibliography is a resource for instructors meant to help them learn more about the concepts of sustainability, sustainable development, resilience,and cultural theory that illuminates the ideological conflicts that make achieving sustainability such a challenge.

Recommended Literature on Sustainability and Sustainable Development

Dresner, S (2002a). Principles of Sustainability. Earthscan, London.

Kates, RW, Parris, TM and Leiserowitz, AA (2005). What is Sustainable Development? Goals, Indicators, Values, and Practices. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 47(3): 8-21.

Korten, D (1996). Sustainable Development: Conventional Versus Emergent Alternative Wisdom. Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, Washington, DC. N (2003). A Field Guide to Sustainability. Washington State Department of Ecology.

Myers, DG (2003). The Social Psychology of Sustainability.World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, Vol. 59(3/4): 201-211.

Orr, D (2003). Four Challenges of Sustainability. School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont. 5p.

Prugh, T and Assadourian, E (2003). What is Sustainability, Anyway? World Watch Magazine, 16(5). 13p.

Taylor, J (2002). Sustainable Development - A Dubious Solution in Search of a Problem.Policy Analysis, 449: 1-49.

The Natural Step Canada (2007). Sustainability at Home: A Toolkit.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2013).Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform.

UNDP Human Development Report Office (2011). Why Sustainability and Equity, in Human Development Report 2011. United Nations Development Programme.

United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (2013). An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Wals, A, and Jickling, B (2002).“Sustainability” in Higher Education: From Doublethink and Newspeak to Critical Thinking and Meaningful Learning. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 3(3):221-232.

Recommended Literature on Resilience

Biello, D (2012). Can Cities Be “Resilient” and Sustainable at the Same Time? Slate.

Mazur, L (2013). Goldilocks Had It Right: How to Build Resilient Societies in the 21st Century. Environmental Change and Security Program, The Woodrow Wilson International Center.

Zolli, A (2013). Learning to Bounce Back. The New York Times.

Recommended Literature on Cultural Theory, Political Ideologies, and Environmental Ethics

Beumer, C and Martens, P (2010). Noah’s Ark or World Wild Web? Cultural Perspectives in Global Scenario Studies and Their Function for Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing World. Sustainability, 2(10): 3211-3238.

Brittenden, W (2012a). The Political Compass. Pace News Limited.

Brittenden, W (2012c). About the Political Compass, in The Political Compass. Pace News Limited.

Callicott, JB (2000). Environmental Ethics - An Overview. Reprinted by Harvard University Center for the Environment. 6p.

Feldman, L, Maibach, EW, Roser-Renouf, C and Leiserowitz, A (2012). Climate on Cable: The Nature and Impact of Global Warming Coverage on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.The International Journal of Press/Politics. 17(1): 3-31.

Gaard, G (2010). Women, Water, Energy: An Ecofeminist Approach, in Brown, P and Schmidt, J, eds., Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals. Island Press. Pp. 59-75.

Gannon, M (2001). American Football, in Understanding Global Cultures. Sage Publ., Thousand Oaks, CA.

Hibbing, JR, Smith, KB, and Alford, JR (2014). Differences in Negativity Bias Underlie Variations in Political Ideology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37: 297-350.

Hoffman, A (2012). Climate Science as Culture War. Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Jacques, P, Dunlap, R and Freeman, M (2008). The Organisation of Denial: Conservative Think Tanks and Environmental Scepticism. Environmental Politics. Vol. 17(3): 349-385.

Jost, JT, Frederico, CM, Napier, JL (2009). Political Ideology: Its Structure, Functions and Elective Affinities. Annual Review of Psychology, 60: 307-337.

Kahan, Dan M. and Braman, Donald and Gastil, John and Slovic, Paul and Mertz, C. K.(2007). Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception. Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 152.Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 4 (3): 465-505.

Leiserowitz, A, Kates, R, and Parris, T (2005). Do Global Attitudes and Behaviors Support Sustainable Development? Environment, 47(9): 22-38.

Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E., Roser-Renouf, C., and Hmielowski, J. D. (2012). Politics & Global Warming: Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and the Tea Party.Yale University and George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

Merchant, C (2010). Fish First! The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management, in Brown, P and Schmidt, J, eds., Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals. Island Press. Pp. 227-240.

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (2012). Overview, in Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years. Pew Research Center. Online:

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (2011). Video: 2011 Political Typology, inBeyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology. Pew Research Center. Online:

Rosenthal, JH (2011). In Search of a Global Ethic. Bard College Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA), Tenth Anniversary Lecture Series.

Thompson, M (2000). Understanding Environmental Values: A Cultural Theory Approach. Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.