Introduction

Question 1

What is water according to Erik Swyngedouw (2016)?

Answer 1

A symptom of wider political-ecological relations of social and political power, of inclusion and exclusion.

Water is a fetish, as it shifts away the attention of the relationship between human but instead focuses on the relationship humans and thing.
This leads water to being a question of techno-managerial and governance configuration which he consideres the de-politicization of the socio-ecological question.

Therefore, water does not exist only the material, discursive, political, cultural and economic socio-ecological relations through which water flows

Question 2

What is Political Economy of Nature?

Answer 2

Study of the relationships between political, economic and the environment taking an anthropocentric perspective.

The non-human environmant is and integral but external condition of and for economic growth
(Focus on institutions, governance, capital, commodities)

Question 3

What is the Political Ecology of Nature?

Answer 3

Study on the interaction between society and the environment, focusing on how political, economic and social factors shape environmental issues from an ecocentric perspective.

Here, the non-human is integral to and an internal condition of and for economic growth and processes of socio-ecological transformation.

For example, the political ecology of the hydro-social cycle configurations and their embedding in particular institutional configurations and uneven socio-ecological relations, with a focus on the social and political significance of non human matter (Ostrom, Hardin)

Question 4

What is the ending definition of the critique of political ecology of the hydrosocial cycle?

Answer 4

The reconstruction of the hetergeneous relations and networks of power that support the hydro-social edifice, its dynamics of change, and its internally and externally constituted conflicts with an eye towards politizicing the matter of natures

Question 5

What is a socio-environmental metabolic circulation?

Answer 5

The flow of materials, energy, and information between human societies and the natural environment within the context of socio-economic systems

Question 6

What happens when you critique the political ecology of water?

Answer 6

Address the power dynamics, social inequalities, and political decisions that shape and influence environmental issues.

Question 7

What is the main aim of critiquing the political-ecology of the hydrosocial cycle?

Answer 7

To strive for an equitable durability (contra sustainability, resilience, adaptation, techno-managerial fixes, which are inherently reactionary - nothing changes from this)

• politicising water involves around how water can be seen as a symptom of the possibilities for an egalitarian-democratic, socio-ecological transformation

Question 8

What are wicked problems?

Answer 8

A socio or cultural issue that is difficult, interconnected, multi-faceted components and inherently impossible to solve with 1 solution.

Science has difficulties to adres wicked problems such as climate change, due to complexity, uncertainty, and diverse perspectives involved in such issues.

Question 9

Thirtsy people are hungry people - what is meant by this?

Answer 9

The entails the direct impact of H2O scarcity strictly relates to food scarcity as water is the fundamental core of foor and crop production (The UN World Water Development). Withouth water there is no life.

Question 10

What are the key dimensions of Water?

Answer 10

• Food
  agriculture accounts for 70% of global freshwater withdrawals
• Energy
  *Need energy to use water, need water to produce energy
• People
  Water for drinking and sanitation
• Ecosystems
  Ecosystems provide water as an ecosystems service and depend on water in order to function
• Water related hazards
• Economic development and equity

(The United Nation World Water Development, 2012)