INDEV101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Political Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Dutch Disease
23 Nov 2016
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Week 8 critical approaches to development issues: human rights, justice and power. Human actions affect biophysical systems and biophysical factors affect human well-being. Addressing only social dimension will be insufficient. Relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being: establish the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being without undermining their long-term productivity. Connections (or disconnections) between resource dependent poor and the resource environment is key to dealing with processes of change and marginalization. Loss of sustai(cid:374)a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) of e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s livelihoods (two-way interaction) Challenge some assertions of environmentalists about the ability of orthodox science to describe environmental change and problems in ways that are politically neutral. Combination of two disciplines and their relationship in the physical environment. Unavoidable anxieties in pe: adoption of environmental science without acknowledging how it is affected by social and political factors, and the adoption of policies based on such unreconstructed science (ex. Unfairly penalize land users especially in developing countries)
