Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy MSc
You are not required to study anything specific before September. However, if you want to get into the swing of things beforehand then the list below serves as an entry point for your forthcoming programme. Most of the journal articles suggested here are free to access, but you may find that others are hidden behind paywalls. If that's the case, you can often get hold of a free version of the article by looking up the author on ResearchGate or Academia.edu. And while academic books are often expensive to buy brand new, you can often find cheaper second-hand versions, or access them for free through libraries.
Suggested Reading / Listening / Viewing
- The Guardian – We can't stop rising sea levels, but we still have a chance to slow them down
- BBC Radio 4 – 39 Ways to Save the Planet
- BBC One – Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
- Burnett & Edwards (2024) – Understanding Uncertainty in Climate Change Predictions
- Dessler (2016) – Introduction to Modern Climate Change 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press
- Hulme, M. (2009) Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, Cambridge University Press. Influential book by a former KCL colleague about public opinions and communication
- IPCC Assessment Report 6 Synthesis Report
- O’Neill et al., 2017. The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century. Global Environmental Change, 42, 169-180
- Pindyck, R.S., 2017. The use and misuse of models for climate policy. Review of EnvironmentalEconomics and Policy, 11(1), pp.100-114
- Nisbet, M.C., 2009. Communicating climate change: Why frames matter for public engagement. Environment: Science and policy for sustainable development, 51(2), pp.12-23
- The Committee on Climate Change, an independent public body, responsible for securitising theUK government’s progress on climate change. Recent publications include: (i) the third ClimateChange Risk Assessment (CCRA); (ii) 2022 progress report to parliament on emission reductions;and (iii) risks to health, wellbeing and productivity from overheating buildings.