GEOG 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Debt Bondage, Intercropping, International Political Economy
Document Summary
Global political economy: driving force of environmental degradation. What are global political economic forces: changing consumption, market demand. Trade deals: north-south relations, banks, commodity prices. Direct effects relate to companies producing for the global market and their direct environmental effects. Indirect effects relate to the impact companies producing for the global market have on others, who then produce environmental effects (environmental effects arising from marginalization). The miskito, nicaragua: bernard nietschmann, miskito"s subsistence ecology: farming, fishing, market disruption due to turtle demand. Social norms governed resource extraction and reciprocal distribution. Placing local and regional environmental problems in a broader context. It explains local environmental change by accounting for actors/processes at multiple scales, from local to international. Ecology/resource base/environment land manager community/regional relations the state . Land manager and practices fisher, farmer, resource user; knowledge, assets, time, technology. Chain of explanation levels: changes in ecology/resource base/environment deforestation, soil erosion, fish decline etc, community/regional relations tenure, rules of access, regulations, social norms, economy.
