INTL 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bird Conservation, Modernization Theory, Agenda 21
7 Apr 2016
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Key questions to ask: development for whom, by whom, how, towards what end? , e. g. logging in pacific nw, amazon, etc. Selective logging , trees critical for habitat like of spotted owl (doug fir), Review of development: post world war ii development of so called 3rd world /aka global. South by 1st world /aka north sparked by: Self-interest of north wanting cheap labor, natural resources (e. g. minerals, timber), markets for industrial goods . Perceived overpopulation threatening resources of northern, so-called developed countries. E. g. population growth in south would outpace food supply. Western and modern enlightenment values of science, rationality, progress, and modern technological advances. Modern development a way for north to maintain control over former colonies. North i. e. core developed/industrialized/modernized using labor and natural resources from global south, i. e. periphery . Made south (former colonies) dependent on north (former colonial powers) Dependency theorists claimed global south (periphery) can never develop because of exploitative relation w north.
