The environment Flashcards
1
Q
What are some examples of environmental issues?
A
- Pollution
- Climate change
- Loss of biodiversity
- Waste disposal
- Overpopulation
- Ocean acidification
- Deforestation
- Loss of resources
- Ozone layer depletion
- Desertification
2
Q
When did people start to become concerned with the environment?
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- By the second half of the 20th century
- It was recognized that pollution of air and water was a serious threat to health.
3
Q
What environmental issues did the north focus on?
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- Issues such as global warming, deforestation and conserving habitats.
4
Q
What environmental issues did the south focus in?
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- Concerned about the effect of TNCs, uneven trade and Western consumerism in making it difficult for developing countries to avoid problems. (Cudworth 2003)
5
Q
Neoliberal perspective
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- Advocates privatisation or the commodification of public goods, extending the market into areas it hasn’t reached before.
- Encourages privatisation of utilities such as water as they argue it would make the use of them more efficient.
6
Q
Saunders (1999)
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- Neoliberal
- Sees the solution of the environmental problems in the extension of the free market.
- Capitalism may have contributed to environmental problems but its nature as an ‘unprecedented growth machine’ means that it’ll generate solution to solve the problems.
7
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Neo-Malthusian perspective
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- Concerned with the implications to the environment from population growth, especially in developing countries.
- Issues come from population rising in LICs putting pressures on marginal land which will lead to problems such as desertification.
8
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Dependency theory perspective
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- Argue the wealthiest people need curbing due to their high level of consumerism.
- Neoliberal policies have made making changes harder; less government control and more unaccountable TNCs.
- Exploration of South’s resources is generally for the people in the North. Eg. a family collecting wood doesn’t cause as much damage as a timber company exporting wood.
