POL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environment And Climate Change Canada, Deep Ecology, Environmental Politics
17 Nov 2014
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Pol203 - politics of the environment - lecture 1: introduction to environmental politics. Components, characteristics and conditions in the natural world that influence organisms; as well as interactions between and among organisms and the natural world (murk, 2005). Essential concepts in politics are the state, its power and legitimacy. How political systems affect the environment and in turn, society (dwivedi, 2001). Institutions - rules that structure human interaction (i. e. law). Interests - role of people and their motivations. Ideas - role that ideas play politically (i. e. religion and political parties). All environmental problems have scale ; from small scales such as local watersheds to larger scales such as global warming. Local conservation authorities have different roles and respective authority than agencies such as environment canada and the ipcc. Hence, scale issues are usually mismatched and difficult to come by. The state has three primary roles: within the market, the individual and communities.
