Exam 2 Articles

Question 1

Robbins; Institutions and the Commons

Answer 1

tragedy of the commons is NOT inevitable
collective action and local governance can be successful when supported by appropriate frameworks, challenges include scale and social inequalities

Question 2

Mansfield: Neoliberalism

Answer 2

Neoliberalism in oceans, fisheries

Question 3

Moseley: Water resources and fishing livelihoods Chapter 12

Answer 3

Global water crises is influenced by climate management, privatization is bad for marginalized groups, common resource management

Question 4

Water Wars of Arizona

Answer 4

conflicts over water rights and usage in a state where water is a scarce and highly contested resource

Question 5

Robbins: Risks and Hazards Ch 6

Answer 5

environmental risks are not just physical but social factors, logic vs emotion

Question 6

Lahsen: Wires Climate Change

Answer 6

framing disasters solely as climate-driven can obscure social and political factors that cause them

Question 7

Robbins: Markets and Commodities Ch 3

Answer 7

role of markets in environmental governance, nature and resources can be commodified and traded, idea can be flawed

Question 8

Robbins: Carbon Dioxide Ch 11

Answer 8

relationship between carbon dioxide and climate change and socio-political systems, carbon trading ideas

Question 9

Klein: A Just Transition

Answer 9

a shift towards an economy that prioritizes environmental sustainability, job creation, well being of marginalized communities

Question 10

Whyte: Way beyond the lifeboat: An Indigenous allegory of climate justice

Answer 10

climate change intensifies existing harm in indigenous communities rather than introducing a new threat