Posted: December 23rd, 2014

environmental issues Examine how current local and regional anthropogenic environmental change in the developing world could exacerbate predicted future impacts of climate change on humans in those areas .

environmental issues

Examine how current local and regional anthropogenic environmental change in the developing world could exacerbate predicted future impacts of  climate change on

humans in those areas .
(For undertaking literature searches, SCOPUS or Web of Knowledge/Science are the best starting points.)
The essay should talk about climate change

Here is the reading list
Living with environmental change: impacts on ecosystem
services and poverty alleviation in developing countries
Reading List
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Further Reading list
Here is some further reading for the lecture. Of course you don’t have to read everything, but there are many interesting reports and papers in the areas that I

discussed.
Websites
The Millennium Ecosystem Services initiative has a dedicated website with lots of good information relating to the lecture

(http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.html). Also have a look at the ‘The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ (TEEB) website (http://www.teebweb.org/)

which concentrates on the economic valuations of natures services.
The websites have loads of great information, but also they have freely available reports (as pdfs) that provide a wealth of information in these areas. A good place

to start on Ecosystem Services is the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Reports. These are freely available from the MEA website
http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/Synthesis.html
The TEEB website which also has a number of freely available reports that look at the valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and how these valuations can be

incorporated into economic decision making. The reports are available at http://www.teebweb.org/our-publications/. The report called Mainstreaming the Economics of

Nature is the shortest but provides lots of good info. The ‘TEEB Interim Report’ is where the TEEB stuff started and is a bit longer but also very informative.
Some of the reports for the MEA and TEEB are very large but there are a number of cut down summary versions that cover the main points. The synthesis and summary

reports cover all the main points in a clear concise fashion and are designed to be read by busy people such as policy makers and decision makers (and Masters

students!). The main document is the ‘TEEB Ecological and Economic Foundations’ – have a look at chapter 1 which provides a good summary and also tells you what is in

the other chapters of the document.
For more information on climate change go to the IPCC website (http://www.ipcc.ch/). The reports here are a bit more technical (particularly the report on the physical

science basis). However summaries for policy makers are available, and include reports on impacts and mitigation strategies.
Journal Articles
The journal ‘Ecology and Society’ had a special issue on ecosystem services, and covers a lot of the material in the MEA assessments but in a little more detail. You

can access the special issue at http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/view.php?sf=23
This Journal also regularly has articles on the subject of ecosystem services.
For more information of the valuation of ecosystem services (and a more about the classification of them) there is a special issue of Ecological Economics that has a

number of interesting papers. The article by de Groot et al is a very comprehensive listing of ecosystem services and their valuation is worth reading.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09218009/41
Another interesting paper is available at the following site
www.nottingham.ac.uk/cem/pdf/Haines-Young&Potschin_2010.pdf
Other useful papers on the environmental degradation and ecosystem damage include the following:
Hughes, L. (2000) Biological consequences of global warming: is the signal already, TREE, 15, 56 – 61
Foley et al., (2005) Global Consequences of Land Use, Science, 309, 570-574
McAlpine, CA., (2010) More than CO2: a broader paradigm for managing climate change and variability to avoid ecosystem collapse. Current Opinion in Environmental

Sustainability, 2, 334-346.
Rockstrom et al., (2009) A safe operating space for humanity, Nature, 461, 472-475
Lambin et al., (2001) The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths. Global Environmental Change, 11, 261-269
There are obviously many, many, more papers that you could read but those listed above will give you a good grounding in the subject. There is a comprehensive list of

further paper on MOLE that was provided by Dr Helen Moggridge.
Books
Although you should concentrate on scientific reports and the technical literature for your studies if you fancy a little bit of lighter reading of friendly but

informative books the following are of interest.
‘The God Species’ by Mark Lynas which covers how we are changing the world and how technology may help.
The book ‘Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the World in the 20th Century’ by J.R.Mcneill is very good but out of print, but you can get 2nd

hand copies on Amazon.
An easy read on ecosystem services is ‘What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?: How Money Really Does Grow On Trees’ by Tony Juniper.

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