Introduction

Question 1

What are two ways in which the environment can be perceived?

Answer 1

Lifeworld
Globe
(Ingold, 2000)

Question 2

Explain the Global environment view.

Answer 2

Based on removing the observer from their environment
Requires a ‘building perspective’ that assumes people must “‘construct’ the world, in consciousness, before they can act in it.” (Ingold, 2000).
Enables a universal view from nowhere that is central to much Natural Science
The environment is a singular, objective entity

Question 3

Explain the environment as Lifeworld view.

Answer 3

A person is an organism. No organism without an environment AND no environment without an organism
Requires a “dwelling perspective” that “treats the immersion of the organism-person in an environment or lifeworld as an inescapable condition of existence” (Ingold, 2000).
Environments are situated, subjective, and therefore multiple. More familiar to social science.

Question 4

How was environmental geography been conceptualised within geography?

Answer 4

X as a middle ground

As multidimensional - as an archipelago of specialisms (Demeritt, 2008: 5)

Question 5

How can we define EG?

Answer 5

Castree, Demeritt & Liverman, 2009
Studies humans and the environment in relation to each other.
Focus on the character, meaning, purpose and proper management of these relations.
Knowledge is ‘academic’, derived from disciplined thought and enquiry.
Claims to tell us something about the ‘actuality’ of what is going on; it’s practical.
Intellectually outwards looking
It is multi-paradigm: ‘a topic as broad as human-environment relations cannot be understood through one approach, worldview or method’ (Castree et al 2009: 9).

Question 6

What are the 6 pathways towards EG?

Answer 6

1. The Geographical Experiment
2. Natural Hazards
3. Global Environmental Change
4. The Production of Nature
5. More-than-human geography
6. Geographies for the Anthropocene