Political ecology correct answers multi-scalar approach to study political forces underlining access, management, and transformation of environmental resources and is shaped by relations of power
common set of assumptions, consistent mode of explanation
Paul Robbins correct answers "ecology is ...
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Political ecology correct answers multi-scalar approach to study political forces underlining
access, management, and transformation of environmental resources and is shaped by relations
of power
common set of assumptions, consistent mode of explanation
Paul Robbins correct answers "ecology is inherently political"
"Any tug on the strands of the global web of human-environment linkages reverberates
throughout the system as a whole"
"ecology is inherently political" correct answers responding to environmental determinism and
ecoscarsity. Draws on cultural ecology ecosystems approach to human-environmental relations
environmental determinism correct answers environment is all determining of human capabilities
and culture
ecoscarcity correct answers environment is finite which leads to death because human population
exceeds carrying capacity
Ideological underpinnings were moral code of self-restraint, and abstaining from reproduction,
the poor were procreating, and welfare was seen as counterproductive
nature as human construction correct answers nature and humans can't be separated because
human culture affects and shapes the natural world - related to pristine myth and myth of
wilderness
thomas malthus correct answers ecoscarcity
population increases exponentially and food production increases arithmetically so there are
limits to growth by the natural world in addition to wars, famine, and disease
pristine myth correct answers "what was the new world like when columbus arrived?"
myth that books and movies said it was pristine and untouched but the truth is that it was already
humanized by native americans' imprint
myth of wilderness correct answers wilderness is nature that is pristine and untouched in a sea of
urban industrial modernity
it challenged western thought and ultimately nature is under human influence
william cronon correct answers myth of wilderness
william denevan correct answers pristine myth and humanized landscape
Paul Ehrlich correct answers He and thomas malthus were into ecoscarsity and natural limits
theory
, He and John Holdren came up with I = PxAxT which describes how our growing population,
affluence, and technology contribute toward our environmental impact.
Amartya Sen correct answers famine is not only produced by food shortages, but by social and
economic factors (ex. famine in India, Sudan, Ireland)
Ester Boserup correct answers introduced intensification thesis: demand leads to technological
innovation and increased food production (green rev.)
Population will increase production
Hans Roslin correct answers "Don't Panic" was a response to critiques of developing world as
the epicenter of population bomb - defending the claim that they are the result of the population
bomb
Peak child correct answers Hans Roslin - there will never be more children in the world than
there are today
I = PxAxT correct answers Impact = population x affluence x technology
Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren
It argues that the decline of ecosystems is directly related to the number of people in a group, the
level of consumption of that group, and the methods the group has to produce those goods
Ethnoecology correct answers study of taxonomy (naming and classification)
study of how different groups of people in different places understand the ecosystems around
them and their relationships with the environment - the logic behind local knowledge
NOT about matching up western scientific labels with local language names
NOT about testing legitimacy of local knowledge by measuring it against western systems of
classification
Ethnoecology demonstrates what about TEK correct answers Ethnoecology has shifted views on
TEK from ethnocentric view ( western culture is superior to others)
and from cultural relativist view (TEK is extensive, place-based expertise)
TEK is now recognized by most modern researchers
biodiversity correct answers variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
Kevin Gaston and biodiversity correct answers he believes the western scientific approach to
biodiversity are genetic, organismal, and ecological
There is not agreement in the western community on the term "biodiversity"
Arturo Escobar and biodiversity correct answers Biodiversity is not a stable construction and that
social movements define it as interconnected with the defense of their culture and territory
It's about territorial control, intellectual property rights, genetic resources, local knowledge, and
conservation
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