GEOG 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Oostvaardersplassen, Anthropocene, Political Ecology

• School: UBC
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 410
• Professor: K A R E N A B K K E R

Document Summary

Chapter 1 pro(cid:448)ides an o(cid:448)er(cid:448)ie(cid:449) of the authors" perspecti(cid:448)es and the organization of the text. The chapter begins with a description of oostvaardersplassen, a human-created wilderness within the densely-populated netherlands. Oostvaardersplassen, other wilderness areas, and places considered to have artificial environments raise questions about what is natural, and what role humans should play in changing or maintaining certain environmental systems. Anthropocene because humans already have a large impact on non-human objects and systems, but have great difficulty controlling and managing complex ecologies. A major theme is explored within each chapter, including diverging perspectives related to the overarching approach: part ii: objects of concern applies these approaches to specific environmental issues and the relationship between humans and these objects. Not all human relations with non-human objects are problems: there are many ways to view the relationship between environment and society, including the ways that we define problems and solutions.