GEOG 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Ecology, Pastoralism, Social Vulnerability
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Political ecology: combines the concerns of ecology and a broadly defined political economy, asks questions about relations between human society, viewed in its bio-cultural-political complexity and humanized nature. Looks are the political dimensions of human and environment interaction. Studies how processes of power across scale shape human environment relationships. Ecological change to social vulnerability i. e. drought turned into famine. Political ecological disaster: drought is climactic; roots of famine are social, economic and political. The ability of an actor to control their own interaction with the environment and with other actors and their interventions with the environment. The differences between overt (open use of force; ivory hunting) and covert power (more subtle): not directly measurable and it"s relational; you don"t have all the power but you can have some power at certain points. Four types of power in political ecology (often working in tangent with each other):
