GEOG 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Trophic Cascade, Amboseli National Park, Cynthia Moss
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Framing communications framing: selecting what evens to focus on in providing explanation for narratives. Structures that support and reinforce their worldview. Form of eco-colonialism pro-wolf groups tend to focus on how wolves belong to all of us and the interests/rights of everyone in existence value of wolves. Eco-cosmopolitanism natural vs. unnatural anti-wolf: argue that not a re-introduction but introduction of a non-native subspecies of wolf. Arguing that opposing side is unnatural seems stronger pro-wolf: wolves are a natural part of the gye. Reintroducing wolves is natural a wolf-less landscape is unnatural restoring vs. destroying health anti-wolf: focus on the individual. Threats that they pose pro-wolf: focus on ecosystem level of health. Reintroduce wolves as top of the food change, creation of trophic cascade impact populations of species further down the food chain and restoring natural ratios of species. American west and american wild unites: sense of the west and the wild places as critical to american identity.
