Topic 06 (week 07)

Question 1

environmental conflict thesis:

Answer 1

increasing scarcities produced through resource enclosure or appropriation by

state authorities
private firms
social elites

Question 2

environmental conflict thesis accelerates….

Answer 2

conflict between groups

Question 3

role of the legal system

Answer 3

modern property law can be a tool for power and violence

tool for exclusion and violence
source of structural violence

Question 4

environmental problems tend to become….

Answer 4

politicized

Question 5

how do environmental problems become politicized?

Answer 5

local groups secure control of collective resources at the expeense of others

existing long-term conflicts

Question 6

examples of politicized conflicts

Answer 6

removals of first nations

old growth coastal redwood loggin in Cali

mining projects

oil sands in alberta

transmountain and keystone pipeline

fairy creek

Question 7

explain the Stuttgart 21 protest

Answer 7

conflict between planning and protest

heritage area, lots of environmental degradation proposed in new design

Question 8

benefits predicted for Stuttgart 21’

Answer 8

ecology, transportation, urban development, economy

Question 9

course of events for Stuttgar 21’

Answer 9

1985: federal transportation plan

since 1990s: debate over urban development

construction begins, results in public protests and squatting of parts of the old railway

“black thursday”