Topic 01/02 (week 02)

Question 1

Robbins Lion king

Answer 1

absence of people does not seem strange, we are used to thinking of africa as an untouched landscape

Question 2

broadly, what does political ecology do

Answer 2

mainyl used as a framework to solve complex problems

Question 3

Maasai

Answer 3

have lived in rift valley for thousands of years as part of the natural environment

Question 4

cockburn and ridgeway definiotion of P.E

Answer 4

a useful way of describing the intentions of radical movements in united states

Question 5

Blaikie and brookfield definition of P.E

Answer 5

combines the concerns of ecology and broadly defined political economy

Question 6

Greenberg and Park definition of P.E

Answer 6

a synthesis of political economy with its isistence on the need to link the distribution

Question 7

Peet at Watts definition of P.E

Answer 7

is confluence between ecologically rooter social science and the prinicples of P.E

Question 8

Hempel definition of P.E

Answer 8

the study of interdependence among poltical units and interrelationships

Question 9

Watts definition of P.E

Answer 9

understand the complex relations between nature and society

Question 10

Stott and Sulivan definition of P.E

Answer 10

identified the political circumstances that forced people into activities which cause environmental degradation

Question 11

apolitical ecology

Answer 11

ecoscarcity and limits to growth
how we may be impacting the environment but not the political and economic factors that are causing it

Question 12

San Torini - Greece

Answer 12

tourism
geographical issues (water needs to be trucked in)
focus on developing tourism rather than local population

major issues surrounding factors of sustainability

Question 13

“the population bomb”

Answer 13

`paul enrich
neo-malthusian
exceeding capactiy of the land

I = PAT
overconsumption in the global north + overpopulation in global south = disaster

Question 14

Julian Simon

Answer 14

economist
“no known physcial limits to processes of growth and improvement
nwo-malthusian predictions didnt come true because of green movements (could still happen though)

Question 15

problems with population bomb

Answer 15

the western world uses more resources than in developing countries
reinforces or reduces social inequalities

Question 16

three fundamental and linked assumptions about Political ecologists

Answer 16

they accepot teh idea that costs and benefits associated iwth environmental change are for the most part distributed unevenly

which reinforces or reduces existing social and economic inequalities

the political implications in the terms of the altered power of actors in the relation to other actors

Question 17

common subjects of political ecology

Answer 17

what cuases regional forest loss?

who benefits from wildlife conservation efforts and who loses?

what political movements have grown from local land use transitions?

local decisions influence by regional pllcities which are in turn directed by global politics and economics

Question 18

case study in Thailand - Dr Williams

Answer 18

5 different communites all within 2KM of each other

all very different in terms of lifestyle, work, ethnic backgrounds

all were affected and helped differently by the tsunami

Question 19

political ecology pursues decisions at many….

Answer 19

levels and scales
local and international

Question 20

political ecology explores social and environmental changes and provides…

Answer 20

an understanding that there are better, less coercive, less exploitative anmd more sustainable ways of doing things