Academic Resources
This is a collection of resources that can be useful for people working on the social, emotional, behavioral and political affects and effects of the climate crisis. Of course, the amount of literature that exists is vast and constantly growing so this is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list. This list will be updated regularly but we make no pretense to be able to keep up with the scholarship. This is merely a starting point which we hope to be useful for those who want to explore these topics more on their own.
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Carbon colonialism: How rich countries export climate breakdown
Laurie Parsons, Carbon colonialism: How rich countries export climate breakdown (Manchester University Press, 2023), https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526169181/
Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse
Laurie Parsons, (2026). Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse. LSE Press, https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.che
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Kolbert, E. (2021). Under a white sky: The nature of the future. Crown Publishing Group, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617060/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert/
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Viking Adult, 2009), https://www.rebeccasolnit.net/books.html
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, nature, and climate change
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Vintage, 1996), https://archive.org/details/the-spell-of-the-sensuous-perception-and-language-in-a-more-than-human-world
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
Adam Frank et al., The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience (The MIT Press, 2024), https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13711.001.0001
21st-Century Climate Imaginaries: Global Activism, Ecopoetry and the Arts of Environmental Justice
Natalie Pollard (ed), 21st-Century Climate Imaginaries: Global Activism, Ecopoetry and the Arts of Environmental Justice (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350401853
The Politics of Deep Time
Frederic Hanusch, The Politics of Deep Time, Elements in Earth System Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2023), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108936606
Socio-Economic Conditions for Satisfying Human Needs at Low Energy Use: An International Analysis of Social Provisioning
Vogel, Jefim, Julia K. Steinberger, Daniel W. O’Neill, William F. Lamb, and Jaya Krishnakumar. 2021. “Socio-Economic Conditions for Satisfying Human Needs at Low Energy Use: An International Analysis of Social Provisioning.” Global Environmental Change 69 (July): 102287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102287
1.5 °C Degrowth Scenarios Suggest the Need for New Mitigation Pathways
Keyßer, Lorenz T., and Manfred Lenzen. 2021. “1.5 °C Degrowth Scenarios Suggest the Need for New Mitigation Pathways.” Nature Communications 12 (1): 2676. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22884-9
The Rise and Fall of Green Growth: Korea’s Energy Sector Experiment and Its Lessons for Sustainable Energy Policy
Ha, Yoon-Hee, and John Byrne. 2019. “The Rise and Fall of Green Growth: Korea’s Energy Sector Experiment and Its Lessons for Sustainable Energy Policy.” WIREs Energy and Environment 8 (4): e335. https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.335
Modernist Dreams and Green Sagas: The Neoliberal Politics of Iceland’s Renewable Energy Economy
Guðmundsdóttir, Hrönn, Wim Carton, Henner Busch, and Vasna Ramasar. 2018. “Modernist Dreams and Green Sagas: The Neoliberal Politics of Iceland’s Renewable Energy Economy.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 1 (4): 579–601. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618796829
Meet the Humanities
Mike Hulme, “Meet the Humanities,” Nature Climate Change 1, no. 4 (2011): 177–79, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1150
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities
Stephen Siperstein et al., eds., Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (Routledge, 2016), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315689135
Loftslagsbreytingar og áhrif þeirra á Íslandi – Skýrsla vísindanefndar um loftslagsbreytingar
Halldór Björnsson et al, Veðurstofa Íslands 2018, https://www.vedur.is/media/loftslag/Skyrsla-loftslagsbreytingar-2018-Vefur-NY.pdf
Mobilities on the Margins: Creative Processes of Place-Making
Björn Thorsteinsson, Katrín Anna Lund, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir (eds.), Mobilities on the Margins: Creative Processes of Place-Making (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41344-5
Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming
William E. Connolly, Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming (Duke University Press, 2017), https://www.dukeupress.edu/facing-the-planetary
Understanding youth climate literacy through climate change communication
Johannes Welling, Kieran Andrew Baxter, Jacqueline Pwint Mon Swe, Þorvarður Árnason: Understanding youth climate literacy through climate change communication: Insights from a Q-methodological reception study (Rannsóknasetur Háskóla Íslands á Hornafirði, 2025), ISBN: 978-9935-9480-9-0, https://hi.is/sites/default/files/atli/pdf/skyrslur/understanding-youth-climate-literacy-through-climate-change-communication.pdf
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures (Duke University Press, 2023), https://www.dukeupress.edu/residual-governance
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire (Verso, 2021), https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2649-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline
Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition
Nicholas Beuret, Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition (Verso, 2025), https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3253-or-something-worse
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action
Rhiannon Firth, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action (Pluto Press, 2022), https://www.plutobooks.com/product/disaster-anarchy/
Capitalism at the Limit: A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis
Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen, Capitalism at the Limit: A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis (Polity, 2026), https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=capitalism-at-the-limit-a-political-ecology-of-a-world-in-crisis–9781509569748
The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism
Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen, The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism (Verso, 2021), https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/916-the-imperial-mode-of-living
Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (Verso Books, 2018), https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/520-climate-leviathan
Facing Gaia. Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia. Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (Polity Press 2017), http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/693.html
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Polity Press 2018), http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/754.html
After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis
Bruno Latour, After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis (Polity Press 2021), http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/907.html
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
Andreas Malm and The Zetkin Collective, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism (Verso, 2021), https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2520-white-skin-black-fuel
Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature
Leppänen, K. , & Aðalsteinsdóttir, A. (Ed.). (2025). Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature. Lanham: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781978748583
Biodiversity and Climate Change
Hans-Otto Pörtner et al., IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop Report Synopsis on Biodiversity and Climate Change (IPBES and IPCC, 2021), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4920414
The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
Adam Welz, The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023), https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/end-of-eden-9781635575224/
Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism
Mike Hulme, Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism (Polity, 2023), https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=climate-change-isnt-everything-liberating-climate-politics-from-alarmism–9781509556151
Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Towards Posthuman Climate Change Education
Hamfarir – í bókmenntum og listum
Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir: Hamfarir – í bókmenntum og listum (Háskólaútgáfan 2023), ISBN: 978-9935-23-318-9, https://haskolautgafan.is/products/hamfarir-i-bokmenntum-og-listum
Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World
Glenn A. Albrecht, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World (Cornell University Press, 2019), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501715228.001.0001
Democracy and Climate Change
Frederic Hanusch, Democracy and Climate Change (Routledge, 2017), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315228983
Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change
Gianfranco Pellegrino and Marcello Di Paola, eds., Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change (Springer International Publishing, 2023), https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-07002-0
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2013), https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816689231/hyperobjects/
Being Ecological
Timothy Morton, Being Ecological (MIT Press, 2019), https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537124/being-ecological/
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia University Press, 2016), https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dark-ecology/9780231177528/
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
Donna Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin,” Environmental Humanities 6, no. 1 (2015): 159–65, https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3615934
On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene
Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, “On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene,” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 16, no. 4 (2017): 4. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v16i4.1539
Who Lit This Fire? Approaching the History of the Fossil Economy
Andreas Malm, “Who Lit This Fire? Approaching the History of the Fossil Economy,” Critical Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (2016), https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/688347
The Geology of Mankind? A Critique of the Anthropocene Narrative
Andreas Malm and Alf Hornborg, “The Geology of Mankind? A Critique of the Anthropocene Narrative,” The Anthropocene Review 1, no. 1 (2014), https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196135162
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso, 2016), https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/135-fossil-capital
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016), https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/27/Staying-with-the-TroubleMaking-Kin-in-the
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing et al., Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (U of Minnesota Press, 2017), https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902377/arts-of-living-on-a-damaged-planet/
Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing et al., “Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology,” Current Anthropology 60, no. S20 (2019): S186–97, https://doi.org/10.1086/703391
Dark Tidings: Anarchist Politics in the Age of Collapse
Uri Gordon, “Dark Tidings: Anarchist Politics in the Age of Collapse,” in Contemporary Anarchist Studies, ed. Randall Amster et al. (Routledge, 2009), https://www.academia.edu/964090/Dark_tidings_anarchist_politics_in_the_age_of_collapse
A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
Gardiner, Stephen M., A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change, Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series (2011; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195379440.001.0001
The Psychology of Collective Climate Action: Building Climate Courage
Karen Hamann et al., The Psychology of Collective Climate Action: Building Climate Courage (Taylor & Francis, 2025), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003558439
The Gravity of Our Situation: On Acrophobia and Eco-Paralysis
Sandberg, O.M. (2024). “The Gravity of Our Situation: On Acrophobia and Eco-Paralysis”. In: Škof, L., Sashinungla, Thorgeirsdottir, S. (eds) Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42119-8_8
Ethics in a Broken World: Can TV-Shows Help Us Navigate the Climate Breakdown?
Martin Sandberg, O. (2025). Ethics in a Broken World: Can TV-Shows Help Us Navigate the Climate Breakdown?. In K. Leppänen & A. Aðalsteinsdóttir (Ed.). Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature (pp. 149–163). Lanham: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781978748583.ch-009
Personal experience and the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change
Rachel I. McDonald et al: “Personal experience and the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change: An integrative review“, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Volume 44, December 2015, Pages 109-118, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.10.003
The Psychological Distance and Climate Change: A Systematic Review on the Mitigation and Adaptation Behaviors
Roberta Maiella et al: “The Psychological Distance and Climate Change: A Systematic Review on the Mitigation and Adaptation Behaviors“, Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 11 2020, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568899
The dragons of inaction: Psychological barriers that limit climate change mitigation and adaptation
Gifford, R.: “The dragons of inaction: Psychological barriers that limit climate change mitigation and adaptation“, American Psychologist, 2011, 66(4), 290–302. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023566
Developing pedagogies for teaching about climate change
Athena Vongalis-Macrow: “Developing pedagogies for teaching about climate change“, The International Journal of Learning, vol. 17, no. 9, 2010, https://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30032542
Focusing on emotions in climate education: A felt sense of the climate
Ole Martin Sandberg: “Focusing on emotions in climate education: A felt sense of the climate“, in Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning, Routledge 2024, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003397939-15
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology
Annelie Ott: “Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology“, Environmental Education Research Volume 30, 2024 – Issue 11, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2296356
Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change
Blanche Verlie: “Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change“, Environmental Education Research, Volume 25, 2019 – Issue 5, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2019.1637823
Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change
Susanne C. Moser & Lisa Dilling: Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, Cambridge University Press 2007, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535871
The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication
Anders Hansen, Robert Cox (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, Routledge 2022, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003119234
Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Lucy M. Richardson, David C. Holmes (ed.): Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change, Edward Elgar Publishing 2020, https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/edcoll/9781789900392/9781789900392.xml
The usefulness of climate change films
Kate Manzo: “The usefulness of climate change films“, Geoforum Volume 84, August 2017, Pages 88-94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.06.006
Effectively Communicating Climate Science beyond Academia: Harnessing the Heterogeneity of Climate Knowledge
Candice Howarth et al: “Effectively Communicating Climate Science beyond Academia: Harnessing the Heterogeneity of Climate Knowledge“, One Earth, Volume 2, Issue 4, 24 April 2020, Pages 320-324, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.001
The climate change research that makes the front page: Is it fit to engage societal action?
Marie-Elodie Perga et al: “The climate change research that makes the front page: Is it fit to engage societal action?“, Global Environmental Change, Volume 80, May 2023, 102675, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.001
Climate Change and Human Well-Being: Global Challenges and Opportunities
Inka Weissbecker (ed.): Climate Change and Human Well-Being: Global Challenges and Opportunities, Springer 2011, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9742-5
Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Sally Weintrobe (ed.): Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge 2012, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203094402
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change
Hickman, Caroline et al: “Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey“, The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 5, Issue 12, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00278-3
Climate emotions: it is ok to feel the way you do
Joe Duggan et al: “Climate emotions: it is ok to feel the way you do“, The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 5, Issue 12, 2021,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00318-1
Hlýnun jarðar
Ritið 2/2008: Hlýnun jarðar, Háskóli Íslands, Ritið, tímarit Hugvísindastofnunar, https://timarit.is/page/6205833?iabr=on#page/n0/mode/2up
Loftslagsbreytingar, frásagnir, hugmyndafræði
Ritið 1/2016: Loftslagsbreytingar, frásagnir, hugmyndafræði, Ritið, tímarit Hugvísindastofnunar, Háskóli Íslands 2016, https://timarit.is/page/6988480?iabr=on#page/n0/mode/2up
Fléttur VI – Loftslagsvá og jafnrétti
Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir, Elín Björk Jóhannsdóttir, Hafdís Hanna Ægisdóttir (ed.), Háskólaútgáfan 2024, https://haskolautgafan.is/products/flettur-vi-loftslagsva-og-jafnretti
Hvað finnst Íslendingum um umhverfismál og loftslagsbreytingar?
Sóllilja Bjarnadóttir, Sigrun Olafsdottir, Helga Ögmundardottir: Hvað finnst Íslendingum um umhverfismál og loftslagsbreytingar? Niðurstöður úr Alþjóðlegu viðhorfakönnuninni 2010 og 2020, January 2023, http://researchgate.net
Umfang og afleiðingar hnattrænna loftslagsbreytinga og áhrif þeirra á Íslandi: Fjórða samantektarskýrsla vísindanefndar um loftslagsbreytingar
Halldór Björnsson et al, Veðurstofa Íslands 2023, https://www.loftslagsbreytingar.is/
Climate Disruption, Political Stability, and Collective Imagination
Ole Martin Sandberg: “Climate Disruption, Political Stability, and Collective Imagination“, Radical Philosophy Review, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev2020324108
Climate change and the threat to civilization
D. Steel, C.T. DesRoches, & K. Mintz-Woo, Climate change and the threat to civilization, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119 (42) e2210525119, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210525119 (2022).
Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
L. Kemp, C. Xu, J. Depledge, K.L. Ebi, G. Gibbins, T.A. Kohler, J. Rockström, M. Scheffer, H.J. Schellnhuber, W. Steffen, & T.M. Lenton, Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119 (34) e2108146119, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108146119 (2022).