Test 2 Flashcards
(31 cards)
A physical realm and a social creation
Nature
A predominant way of approaching global economic development and environmental changes
Sustainability
Environmental problems are global in scope
Globalization
Socially produced describes the refashioning of landscapes and species by human activity, especially economic production and labor processes
Nature
Humans must turn the environment into things that sustain our existence
Metabolism
Present in both landscapes, yet somehow we tend not to see the environment in this way
Nature
New geological Epoch
Anthropocene
The brief interval stretching back 10,000 years
Holocene
Physical objects or artifacts, activities or processes, knowledge or know how
Technology
Though the harvesting of resources, the emission of wastes in the manufacture of goods and services, and the emission of wastes in consumption of goods and services
How Technology affects the environment
the level of affluence of households plays an important role in their impact on the global environment
IPAT
Impact on earths resources
I
Population
P
Affluence as measure by per capita income
A
a technology factor
T
Author of Silent Spring 1962, famous scientist who wrote the first really environmentalist book that people actually read. Pesticides, and cancer
Rachel Carson
the study of how human society has adapted to environmental challenges through technological and human adaptations
Cultural Ecology
Addresses how certain nonmaterial practices (beliefs, traditions, social institutions, etc) impact our material practices (food production, provisioning of shelter, reproduction)
Cultural Ecology
Places cultural ecology within a wider context
Political Ecology
1980s. Is there a large chain of connections between scales. Found that soil erosion had to do with land ownership and marginalization of poor farmers, not their own ignorance
Piers Blaikie
Preservation, Deep ecology (earth first)
Nature and Society as separate realms
The social production of nature (metabolism) environmental justice, political and cultural ecology
Nature and society as always integrated
Environmental quality is inextricably linked to human equality. Hundreds of case studies have demonstrated that access to both environmental goods and bads are unevenly distributed alone lines of race, class, gender, nationality, and other forms of social difference
Environmental Justice Research
This concept holds that people should not be exposed to a disproportionate amount of environmental hazards because of their race, class, gender, nationality, or any other factor
Environmental Justice Theory
