Key ideas in Ecological Security Flashcards
1
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Roger Revelle
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1960s - first scientist to state that climate change was happening and was a big problem
created tension between natural science and politics
2
Q
Falkner
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Environmentalism is an institution of international society
pollution has no boundaries
3
Q
Hurrell
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state is too big and too small to deal with challenges posed by environmental changes
- too big to create strategies (interstate)
- too small to solve the international problem (systemic)
some states are more effected than others (FIJI etc)
4
Q
Myers
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- compares ecological crisis to a ‘cancer’ rather than a heart attack
5
Q
Barry
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Stresses the link of the environment to the economy
failings of neoliberalism is the reason for the environmental problems
6
Q
W.A Cherry
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3 ways -
- nature centric
- human centric
- eclectic
