GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ecosystem Services, Afforestation, Carbon Sink
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Eesb15 lecture 6 - environmental degradation and marginalization. Political ecology is not a coherent theory, it draws from other theories to explain human- environment interactions; contributes to the creation of theories. It can hardly be defined as a method (something that people do) as it uses numerous research techniques to understand human-environmental interactions. It"s formed a global constituency that revolves around certain themes and adopts a specific sort of critical attitude. This community terns to be skeptical and ambiguous. Environmental problems are always considered in the broader context. Political ecology as a critique exposes flaws in dominant approaches to the environment. Political ecology as equity and sustainability research. The father of political - pierce blakey. Common narrative is that soil is degraded because the poor don"t know how to manage the land. Shifting of the blame to look at the broader context.
