Week – Dr. David Smith

Readings:

United Nations (2016). Global Sustainable Development Report, 2016 Edition. , UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York. [Read Chapter five]

Mora, Camilo, et al. (2013). “The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability”. Nature 7470, pp. 183-187.

Smith, Nadine, Anna Halton, and Janet Strachan, eds. Transitioning to a Green Economy: Political Economy of Approaches in Small States. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2014.  (Read Chapter one and one other chapter)

Environmental Management and other wicked problems:

Jentoft, Svein and Ratana Chuenpagdee. “Fisheries and coastal governance as a wicked problem” In: Marine Policy4 (2009), pp. 553-560.

Boys, Kathryn A., David B. Willis, and Carlos E. Carpio (2014). Consumer willingness to pay for organic and locally grown produce on Dominica: insights into the potential for an “Organic Island”,Environment, Development and Sustainability, pp. 595-617.

Smardon, Richard (2009). “The Mankote Mangrove: Microcosm of the Caribbean”, in Sustaining the World’s Wetlands, Springer US, pp. 267-300. [Read Chapter 9 only]