SOC 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Common-Pool Resource, Ecosystem Services, Neoliberalism
10 Dec 2016
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Ecosystem: any geographic area that includes all of the organisms and non-living parts of their physical environment. Every functioning and non functioning item of an area. Ecosystem services: the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Connecting it right to people, the so what, why does it matter to us and why is it valuable or not valuable to us. Elati(cid:448)e (cid:272)ar(cid:272)it(cid:455) (cid:862)has little to do (cid:449)ith li(cid:373)its i(cid:374) the (cid:374)atural (cid:449)orld, (cid:271)ut the li(cid:373)ited (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (money or other forms of wealth) that people have to pursue their desires. (cid:863) We may have fully functioning components of ecosystems in some areas of the world and some where there is nothing (i. e. the desert) Simply we don(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e e(cid:374)ough food for e(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e, there(cid:859)s (cid:374)ot e(cid:374)ough of a resour(cid:272)e to satisfy the demand for it. Six elements in the logic of the treadmill of production. Increasing accumulation of wealth by a relatively small elite, who use ecological resources to expand production and profits.
