Global and Local Environmental Problems

Question 1

Boykoff and Boykoff (2007)

Answer 1

USA has refused to sign international policies, and the US Media has dramatised the effects of climate change,

is it a social construct?

Question 2

Elliott (2013)

Answer 2

Sustainable development is principal policy goal of many major institutions i.e world bank, IMF

Challenge to move to greener technologies
impact are not evenly distributed, as well can capacity to cope

Question 3

Haarstad (2014)

Answer 3

Scales are interconnect arenas produced by social action, assigning responsibility on different scales

relational view between scales must be used

Question 4

Herrick (2005)

Answer 4

GM Crops becoming massive debate, GM use is spreading yet there is little policing of its use in developing countries, causing unrest

Question 5

Murray and Overton (2014)

Answer 5

Issues of industrialisation as a result of globalisation, climate/envoniromnemt takes a back seat to focus on economic gains

Question 6

Vesalon and Cretan (2013)

Answer 6

Environmental risk has a socially constructed horizon influenced by the media