ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Athenian Democracy, Landed Property, Resource Management

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Worthy Ken

Document Summary

Landed property as the basis of citizenship in the early republic: heritage of athenian democracy. Relative equity of land distribution as basis of american democracy. Human relationship with nature: inter-subjective vs. instrumental: identity & power: race, ethnicity, class, gender, marginality. Access to resources/exclusion from access to resources: property. Social process: eminent domain & right of return. Founding values & historical contradictions of american democracy: social contract, models of incorporation. Tools and concepts for understanding the ideas, practices, and roles of different groups in relation to the management and use of natural resources. Comparative study of us indian & settler natural resource management. Westward expansion in the 19th century: frontier/identity/historiography. Access to and control of land: property rights/conflict/dispossession/power relations. Role of the state in shaping resource management. Comparative study of native american & european american natural resource management. Traditional ecological knowledge: factual observations, management systems, past and current uses, ethics and values, culture and identity.