As
part of a research focusing on the Green Party and the Politics of
Climate Change in Aotearoa/New Zealand I have assembled this select
bibliography of useful sources. Hopefully it will be useful for those
studying and/or researching this topic. If you use it for scholarly
and/or educational purposes then please acknowledge it as a source.
If I have missed
important work, then please add by way of comments below or send me an
email with suggested additions. This will be updated from time to time.
Last update: 11-5-2018
Last update: 11-5-2018
The Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Politics of Climate Change– Useful Primary and Secondary Sources
Green Party –
Selected Key Primary Sources since 2009
Green
Party Website: https://www.greens.org.nz/
Green
Party (2009). Green New Deal: The Green
Stimulus Package at https://home.greens.org.nz/greennewdeal.
Green
Party (2010). Mind the Gap – Combating
Inequality in New Zealand at https://home.greens.org.nz/mindthegap.
Green
Party (2011a). Economics Policy -
Thinking Beyond Tomorrow, Wellington.
Green
Party (2011b). Climate Change Policy,
Wellington.
Green
Party (2013a). Sustainable Business
Policy, Wellington. At https://www.greens.org.nz/sites/default/files/sustainablebusiness_20131109.pdf
Green
Party (2013b). Taxation and Monetary
Policy, Wellington.
Green
Party (2014a). Economic Policy - Smart,
Resilient and Fair at
https://www.greens.org.nz/sites/default/files/economic_20140811_1.pdf
Green
Party (2014b). Industrial Relations
Policy at https://home.greens.org.nz/policy/industrial-relations-policy-sustainable-working-life.
Green
Party (2014c). Climate Change Policy
at https://www.greens.org.nz/sites/default/files/climatechange_20140601.pdf
Green
Party (2014d). Income Support Policy
at
https://www.greens.org.nz/sites/default/files/Green%20Party%20Income%20Support%20Policy.pdf
Green
Party (2015). Yes We Can! A Plan for
Significantly Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions at
https://www.greens.org.nz/policy/cleaner-environment/2015-climate-action-yes-we-can.
Green Party and Labour Party (2016). Memorandum of Understanding at
https://www.greens.org.nz/news/press-release/labour-and-greens-sign-historic-agreement-change-government
Green Party and Labour Party (2017a). Budget Responsibility Rules at
https://www.greens.org.nz/policy/smarter-economy/budget-responsibility-rules.
Green Party and Labour Party (2017b). Confidence and Supply Agreement at
https://www.greens.org.nz/sites/default/files/NZLP%20%26%20GP%20C%26S%20Agreement%20FINAL.PDF
Green Party (2017a) Climate Protection Plan. Available at
https://www.greens.org.nz/climate-protection-plan
Green Party (2017b) Mending the Safety Net: For a Fairer Society. Available at: https://www.greens.org.nz/sites/default/files/policy-pdfs/Mending%20the%20Safety%20Net%20policy%20paper%20updated%20FINAL.pdf
Green Party –
Secondary Sources
Bale, T. (2003). ‘The Green Party.’ In
R. Miller (ed), New Zealand Government and Politics. 3rd edn., Auckland: Oxford
University Press, pp.283-292.
Bale, T. and Wilson, J. (2006). ‘The
Green Party.’ In R. Miller (ed), New Zealand Government and Politics. 4rd edn., Auckland:
Oxford University Press, pp.392-404.
Dann,
C. (1999). ‘From Earth’s Last Islands: The Origins of Green Politics.’ PhD
thesis, Lincoln University.
Farquhar, R.M (2006). ‘Green Politics and the
Reformation of Liberal Democratic Institutions.’ PhD thesis in sociology,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch.
Ford, G. (2015). ‘Green Party.’ In J. Hayward (ed), New Zealand Government and Politics, 6th
edn., Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp.229-239.
Miller,
R. (2005) Party Politics in New Zealand, Oxford University Press,
Melbourne, 2005
Rainbow,
S. (1993) Green Politics. Auckland:
Oxford University Press.
Roper,
B. (2002) “Green Politics: A New Radicalism?” in Socialist Review of
Aotearoa, no. 10, 2002, pp.22-24
Roper,
B. (2005a). Roper, B.S. Prosperity for
All? Economic, Social and Political Change in New Zealand since 1935.
Victoria, Thomson Learning.
Roper,
B. (2011b). The fire last time: The rise of class struggle and the progressive
social movements in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 1968 to 1977. Marxist Interventions 3: 7-30 (2011).
Roper,
B. (2017a). ‘Why Vote, and Vote Left?’ Published (14-9-2017) on the
International Socialist Organisation website at: https://iso.org.nz/2017/09/14/election-2017-why-vote-and-why-vote-left/
Roper,
B. (2017b). ‘Why Vote, and Vote Left?’ Published (14-9-2017) on the International
Socialist Organisation website at: https://iso.org.nz/2017/09/14/election-2017-why-vote-and-why-vote-left/
Taylor, D. (2008). ‘What’s Left? An Exploration of
Social Movements, the Left and Activism in New Zealand Today.’ MA thesis in
Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington.
Vowles,
Jack et al., (2017) A Bark but No Bite:
Inequality and the 2014 Election. Canberra: ANU Press.
Wilson (2010). ‘Greens.’ In R. Miller
(ed), New Zealand Government and Politics, 5th edn.,
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp.497-508.
The Alliance
(New Labour Party, Green Party, Mana Motuhake, Democrats)
•
C. Trotter “Alliance” ch.4.3 in R. Miller (ed), New Zealand Government and
Politics, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2003.
•
B. Jesson, “The Alliance”, in R. Millar (ed), New Zealand Politics in
Transition, Oxford University Press, 1997, ch. 3.3.
•
“Alliance Meltdown— What the Hell Happened?” in Socialist Review of
Aotearoa, no. 11, Winter 2002, pp. 8-10.
The Values
Party
Browning,
C. (2012) Beyond Today: A Values Story.
Wellington: C. Browning
Dann,
C. (1999). ‘From Earth’s Last Islands: The Origins of Green Politics.’ PhD
thesis, Lincoln University.
Climate
Change Policy in New Zealand
Blakeley, R. (2016). ‘Policy Framework for New
Zealand to Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy’. In Policy Quarterly. Vol.12, Issue 2, pp.13-22.
Bertram, G. and S. Terry. (2010). The Carbon Challenge: New Zealand’s
Emissions Trading Scheme. Wellington: Bridget Williams Press.
Boston, J. (2015). ‘Climate Change Policy’ in J. Hayward
(ed), New Zealand Government and Politics,
6th edn., Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 482-493.
Chapman, R., J. Boston, and M. Schwass, (2006). Confronting Climate Change: Critical Issues
for New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
Ministry for the Environment. (2016). New Zealand’s Greenhouse Inventory,
1990-2014. Wellington, New Zealand Government.
MFE (2016b). New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme
Evaluation 2016. Wellington: MFE.
Ministry for the Environment. (2017a). New Zealand’s Third Biennial Report: Under
the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change. Wellington, New
Zealand Government.
MFE (2017b). New
Zealand’s Greenhouse Inventory, 1990-2015. Wellington: MFE.
New
Zealand’s Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) Electoral System
Reading
Starting Point:
• T Arseneau
and N. Roberts (2015). ‘The MMP Electoral System’ in NZGP(6th edn),
ch.5.1, pp.275-286.
• Atkinson, N. (2003) Adventures
in Democracy: A History of the Vote in New Zealand, University of Otago
Press, Dunedin, ch.7 ‘Searching for a Better Democracy, 1984 to 2002’,
pp.201-233.
Further
Reading (in order of importance):
• Miller, R. and Lane, P. (2010) ‘Future of the MMP Electoral
System’, in Miller, R. (ed) New Zealand
government and politics, fifth edition, Miller (ed), South Melbourne:
Oxford University Press. pp.168-184.
• Catt, H. and others (1992), Voter’s
Choice: Electoral Change in New Zealand? Dunmore Press, Palmerston North,
pp.17-31, 68-82.
• Jackson, K. and McRobie (1998) New Zealand Adopts Proportional Representation, Ashgate,
Brookfield, especially pp.120-122.
• Levine, S. and others (2005) ‘A Wider View: MMP Ten Years On.’ In
S. Levine and N.S. Roberts (eds), The
Bubbles of Office: The New Zealand General Election of 2005, Victoria University
Press, Wellington, pp.445-76.
• Denemark,
D. (2003) ‘Choosing MMP in New Zealand: Explaining the 1993 Electoral Reform.’
In Soberg Shugart, M. and Martin P. Wattenberg, M. (eds) (2003) Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of
Both Worlds? Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, ch.4, pp.70-95.
• Roper, J., Holtz-Bacha, C. & G, Mazzoleni, The Politics of Representation: Election
Campaigning and Proportional Representation, Peter lang Publishing, New
York, ch.2 ‘New Zealand: The Popular Overthrow of an Electoral System’,
pp.29-44.
• Barker,
Fiona and others (2003) ‘An Initial Assessment of the Consequences of MMP in
New Zealand.’ In Soberg Shugart, M. and Martin P. Wattenberg, M. (eds) (2003) Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of
Both Worlds? Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, ch.14,
pp.297-322.
• Vowles, J. (2008) ‘Systemic Failure, Coordination, and
Contingencies: Understanding Electoral System Change in New Zealand.’ In Blais,
A. (ed) To Keep or To Change First Past
the Post? The Politics of Electoral Reform, Oxford University Press,
Oxford, pp.163-183.
• Boston, J. (1996) Governing
Under Proportional Representation: Lessons from Europe, Institute of Policy
Studies, Wellington, ch.2.
• Hunt, G. (1998) Why MMP
Must Go: The Case For Ditching the Electoral Disaster of the Century,
Waddington Press, Auckland.
• Temple, P. (1993) Making
Your Vote Count Twice: MMP versus FPP, McIndoe Publishers, Dunedin.
The New Zealand Electoral
Commission website has a lot of useful information relevant to this topic:
www.elections.org.nz.
Neoliberalism in New Zealand – Selected Key Sources
Boston, Jonathon and others. (Eds.) 1999, Redesigning
the Welfare State in New Zealand: Problems, Policies, Prospects, Oxford University
Press, Auckland.
Chatterjee, S. and others (Eds.) 1999, The
New Politics: A Third Way For New Zealand, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North.
Cheyne, Christine and others, Social
Policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Critical Introduction, Fourth Edition,
Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2008.
Duncan, Grant. 2007, Society and
Politics: New Zealand Social Policy, Second Edition, Pearson, Auckland,
2007.
Dalziel, Paul and Robert Lattimore, The
New Zealand Macroeconomy: A Briefing on the Reforms, 4th edn, Oxford
University Press, Auckland, 2001.
Dalziel, Paul and Robert Lattimore. 2004, The
New Zealand Macroeconomy: Striving for Sustainable Growth with Equity, 5th
edn, Oxford University Press, Auckland.
Easton,
Bryan. 1997, In Stormy Seas: The Post-War
New Zealand Economy, Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
Hager, Nicky. 2005, The Hollow Men: A
Study in the Politics of Deception, Graig Potton Publishing, Nelson.
Hager, Nicky. 2014, Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand’s
Political Environment, Craig Potton Publishing, Wellington.
Harvey, David. 2005, A Brief History of
Neoliberalism, Oxford University Press, New York.
Kelsey, Jane. 1997, The New Zealand
Experiment, Second Edition, Auckland University Press, Auckland.
Kelsey, Jane. 2002, At the Cross-Roads,
Bridget Williams Books, Auckland.
Kelsey, Jane. 2015, The FIRE Economy:
New Zealand’s Reckoning, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington.
Lunt, Neill, Mike O’Brien, and Robert
Stephen. (Eds.) 2008, New Zealand, New Welfare, Victoria, Thomson.
Massey, Patrick. New
Zealand: Market Liberalization in a Developed Economy, St. Martin’s Press,
New York, 1995.
McClure, Margaret, A Civilised
Community: A History of Social Security in New Zealand, 1898-1998, Auckland:
Auckland University Press, 1998.
McKinnon, Malcolm. 2003, Treasury: The
New Zealand Treasury, 1840-2000, Auckland University Press: Auckland.
O’Brien, Mike. 2008, Poverty, Policy and the State: Social Security Reform in New Zealand,
Policy Press, Bristol.
Rashbrooke, Max. (Ed.) 2013, Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis,
Bridget Williams Books, Wellington.
Roper, Brian. 2005, Prosperity for All?
Economic, Social and Political Change in New Zealand Since 1935, Thomson,
Southbank Victoria.
Rudd, Chris and Brian Roper (Eds.) 1997, The
Political Economy of New Zealand, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1997.
Trotter, Chris. (2010). No Left Turn: The
Distortion of New Zealand’s History by Greed, Bigotry, and Right-Wing Politics.
Penguin, Auckland.
Kelsey,
Jane. 2002, At the Cross-Roads, Bridget Williams Books, Auckland.
Whitwell, Jan. (1990), ‘The Rogernomics
Monetarist Experiment’, in Holland, M. and Boston, J. (eds), The Fourth Labour Government: Politics and
Policy in New Zealand, 2nd edn.,
Auckland: Oxford University Press.
Climate
Change and Marxist Ecology: Analysing the Causes of Resource Depletion, Habitat
Destruction, and Global Warming
Useful
Journals:
• Capitalism, Nature Socialism: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcns20/current
• Capitalism and Climate: http://climateandcapitalism.com/
• Angus, I. (2016). Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth
System. New York: Monthly Review Press.
• D’Amato,
P. (2014). The Meaning of Marxism,
Updated (Second) Edition, Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2014, pp.237-257.
• Bellamy
Foster, J. (1999) The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the
Environment, Monthly Review Press.
• Bellamy
Foster, J. (2000). Marx’s Ecology:
Materialism and Nature. New York, Monthly Review Press.
• Bellamy
Foster, J., B. Clark and R. York (2010).
The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, Monthly Review Press,
New York.
• Neale,
J. (2008). Stop Global Warming: Change
the World, Bookmarks, London.
• Williams, C. (2010) Ecology and
Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, Haymarket Books,
Chicago.
Global
Warming and Climate Change: Causes and Solutions
• J. Neale,
“Abrupt Climate Change” in Stop Global
Warming: Change the World, Bookmarks, London, 2008, pp.13-25.
• J. Bellamy
Foster, B. Clark and R. York, The
Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, Monthly Review Press, New
York, 2010, pp. 121-153.
*N. Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the
Environment, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2014.
*J. Neale,
“Part Two: Solutions That Could Work Now” in Stop Global Warming: Change the World, Bookmarks, London, 2008,
pp.49-57.
*M. Ware,
“Toward an anti-capitalist climate change movement.” In International Socialist Review, Issue 94, 2014, pp. 21-26.
*H. Their,
“Marxism and Eco-socialism.” In International
Socialist Review, Issue 94, 2014, pp. 27-40.
*C. Williams,
Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis,
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2010.
General
Introductions to the Science and Political Economy of Climate Change
J. Bellamy
Foster, The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment,
Monthly Review Press, 1999.
J. Clapp and
P. Dauvergne, Paths to a Green World: The
Political Economy of the Global Environment, 2nd edn., The MIT
Press, Cambridge Massachusetts and London, 2011.
A. Dessler
and E. Parson, The Science and Politics
of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate, 2nd edn.,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010.
K. Dow and T.
Downing, The Atlas of Climate Change:
Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge, 3rd edn., University of
California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2011.
J. Hardy, Climate Change: Causes, Effects, and
Solutions, Wiley, Chichester, 2003.
R. Henson, The Rough Guide to Climate Change, 3rd
edn., Rough Guides, London, 2011.
Kunzig, R.
and W. S. Broecker (2008). Fixing
climate: the story of climate science - and how to stop global warming.
London, Green Profile/Sort Of Books.
E. Mathez, Climate Change: The Science of Global
Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press, New York, 2009.
A. Parr, The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and
Climate Change Politics, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013.
A. Simms, Ecological Debt: Global Warming and the
Wealth of Nations, 2nd edn., Pluto Press, London, 2009.
Eco-socialism
J. Bellamy
Foster, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and
Nature. New York, Monthly Review Press, 2000.
J. Bellamy
Foster, The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet, Monthly
Review Press, New York, 2009.
J. Bellamy
Foster, B. Clark, and R. York, The
Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Planet, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010.
Burkett, P.
(2006). Marxism and Ecological Economics,
Brill.
Hughes, J.
(2000). Ecology and Historical
Materialism. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Pepper, D.
(1993). Eco-Socialism: from Deep Ecology
to Social Justice. London, Routledge.
Pro-capitalist
environmentalist economics.
P. Newell and
M. Paterson, Climate Capitalism: Global
Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 2011.
Virtually all
of the large number of books in the environmental economics section of the
central library fall into this category- check out the books with call numbers
beginning: HC79.E5.
A good
introduction to neoclassical economic concepts used in environmental economics
is provided by:
J.
Asaful-Adjaye, Environmental Economics
for Non-Economists, World Scientific, Singapore, 2005.
On the
politics and public policy of climate change:
G. Bertram
and S. Terry, The Carbon Challenge: New
Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme, Bridget Williams Press, Wellington,
2010.
J. Boston,
‘Climate Change Policy’ in J. Hayward (ed), New
Zealand Government and Politics, 6th edn., Oxford University
Press, Melbourne, 2015, ch.7.7.
J. Boston
(ed), Towards a New Global Climate Treaty:
Looking Beyond 2012, Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington, 2007.
R. Chapman,
J. Boston, and M. Schwass, Confronting
Climate Change: Critical Issues for New Zealand, Victoria university press,
Wellington, 2006.
J. Neale,
“Part Four: Climate Politics” in Stop
Global Warming: Change the World, Bookmarks, London, 2008, pp.163-222.
R. Saunier
and R. Meganck, Dictionary and
Introduction to Global Environmental Governance, Earth Scan, 2007.
Social
Democratic interpretations of the causes of global warming and how to stop it.
A. Giddens,
The Politics of Climate Change, Polity
Press, Cambridge, 2009.
D. Held, A.
Hervey, and M. Theros, The Governance of
Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics and Ethics, Polity Press,
Cambridge, 2011.
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