SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Ecosystem Diversity, Paul J. Crutzen, Shortwave Radiation
16 Oct 2011
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Environmental sociology: the study of the interaction between human society and the physical environment. Emerged after 1970 earth day, inspired social consciousness about the environment. Ecology: the study of how living organisms interact with the environment. Ecosystem: a community of organisms living, feeding, reproducing and interacting in the same area: all organisms are interdependent. Environmental sociologists apply biological insights to enhance their understanding of the relationship between human society and the physical environment. Emphasis on how social factors affect the environment and the way society tries and fails to solve the problem of environmental degradation. Human exceptionalism paradigm: the view that humans are exceptional but not exempt from the natural world. Also known as "new environmental paradigm" or "new ecological paradigm" New environmental paradigm: the view that human social actions occur within an ecosystem that has its own processes and limits: recognises that human societies and nature interact and that human actions affect nature.
