ISS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Racism, Ecological Anthropology
1 Jul 2016
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Ecological populations: groups exploiting resources entirely within certain demarcated areas from which members of other human groups are excluded . Adaptive strategies change, coexist and influence each other. There re no isolated ecosystems and all humans participate in a world system. Worldwide intensification of interactions and increased flow of money, people, goods, and ideas. Distant localities are linked-local happenings are influenced by events occurring far away and vice versa. Understand and devise culturally informed solutions to issues as resource access, environmental degradation, environmental racism and role of media and ngo"s, etc. Local, regional, national and international scales vary and link in time and space. New methods are used to place ecological issues in a context far larger, deeper and broader in space and time than the bounded ecosystem approach of the 1960"s. The old and the new share an interest on environmental knowledge and management practices.
