GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Political Ecology, Immanuel Kant, Soil Conservation
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Ggrb21 lecture 2 - the fundamentals, apolitical vs political ecologies. This course explores how politics, the economy, history and culture shape and are shaped by interactions of people with the physical environment. Political ecology was originally framed by piers blaikie as the multiscale analysis of environmental degradation from a political economy perspective. Political ecology rejects the neo-malthusian explanations of human impacts on the environment. Malthus believed in the carrying capacity, as the term treats everyone as having the same attributes and behavior as uniform. Political ecology links environmental change to power relations. Scenes are compelling when they justify our affection for the beauty and complexity of the non-human world. Scenes are educational and serve as a window for understanding the connectedness of life. The most common and captivating images of nature are missing human beings: Human beings in or near the natural landscapes we admire most are often seen as being a threat to biodiversity.
