Block 4 Flashcards
(33 cards)
Who argues that environmental concerns represent the most powerful opposition to neoliberalism?
McCarthy and Prudham 2004
globalization and climate change have overlapping, but what do who argue is problematic about this?
O’Brien and Leichenko 2000 They are generally thought of as separate. Africa, for example, is thought of as a loser from both globalization and from climate change.
Who says that sustainable development is just the start of a process, and should not be considered to be the end?
Adams 2001
Who argues that many ESS are public goods that cannot and should not be chopped up and privatised
Wood 2014
What is the key paper arguing against the use of ESS for development goals?
McAfee 2012
What is McAfee’s logic?
It is argued to be a part of understanding the world as a market that worsen inequality without realising their promised environmental benefits, so it fails on two fronts. It can only work with community development
What does McAfee 2012 argue to be the most widespread and fastest growing ESS?
Trade in carbon credits for carbon impounding ESS in carbon credits
Who is the big, non development, pro ESS paper?
Costanza et al 2014
Who says that ESS is an approach that implies a commodification of nature?
McCauley 2006
If society treats something currently unmarketised as a marketable good then what does it risk, according to Adams 2014?
Projecting existing inequalities onto a new canvas
What is the quito water fund case study?
Tallis et al 2008
What does who argue that petrocapitalism has done to the Ngier delta?
Made it into a political tinderbox with assignations of those such as Marshall Harry
What proportion of Africans are Nigerian?
1/5
Who stresses, looking at Nigeria, the paradox of the oil industry?
Zalik 2004; oil funding is reliant on high prices which causes the insecurity that threatens the oil, so it is in their interest for oil conflict as it keeps the prices high
Who is the rentier state citation?
Ross 2001
Who argues against reading too much into oil itself, as this becomes commodity determinism?
Watts 2004
Who argues MASSIVELY that armed conflict is increasingly commercial rather than government led
Le Billion 2001
According to Adger, when, what is a vulnerable system?
2006 a vulnerable system is one whose resilience has been eroded.
What else does Adger 2006 say?
There nexus between environmental vulnerability and socio-political vulnerability, between armed conflict and environmental pressure.
What are the two case studies for atoll islands?
Barentt and Adger 2003 and Donner and Webber 2014
Which place in particular do Donner and Webber 2014 discuss?
Kiribati
What, other than an Atoll case study, is the other aspect of Barnett and Adger 2003?
concerns the vulnerability of atoll countries, rendered uninhabitable by climate change, naturally ranging questions about sovereignty
Who talks abbot the oxymoronic structure of sustainable development, and what is their exact phrase?
O Riordan 1995 the ambiguity of the phrase sustainable development allows it to transcend the tensions inherent in its meaning.
Apart from O’riordon 1995, who else talks about the problems of the ambiguity of sustainable development?
Mitchell 1997
