01:450:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Development Index, Walt Whitman Rostow
13 Feb 2018
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Thinks a lot about the natural world and who"s in charge of taking care of it. Urban ecology: paul robbins looked at lawn care, we shape the environment just as the environment shapes us. Garden was a symbol of wealth you can pay people to make your lawn look that way. Work revolves around water (access to water and struggles of people in the global. Cities in global south and growing at a much faster rate. Faster than any other city in the world. Traditionally women"s job to go get water and using it to go do things in the household. Kinda dangerous for them potentially harassed or assaulted. Studies how women make spaces to get poultry farming in the city. Ecology natural systems and how things interact. Everything that we buy connects to vast global systems of trade. Patterns of inequality things that were setup during the colonial area and persist.
