R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Environmental Degradation, Path Dependence, Environmental Policy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: Monica Gruezmacher

Document Summary

Brief overview so far for quiz 1: Can consider them lenses to observe rural communities. Observing them not in a static way but in a dynamic way (transformations) Di erent ways in which we can start to understand that context of change. Important context of change: political and economic changes. Other things important in understanding change: ideas of change. History is telling us about decisions of the past, Di erent ideas of progress and development * Giving us sense of mechanisms that these communities have to move. Governance: mechanisms through which these communities are taking these di paths lecture continued from last class: Weak rule of law / property rights. People in rural areas excluded form the decisions in governance. Not actively participating in the choices and the paths of development of these areas. No matter what the of approach you have to promote change and transformation, you will run into problems.