GEOG 3020 Study Guide - Soil Management, Immigration Policy, Physical Capital
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Four types definitions, examples (bryant reading, lecture) The ability to be successful in a conflict- this may be overt through force or threat of force, or covert . Four types of power in political ecology: power to: control access to environmental resources (fishing license) Governments control these usually- military: power to: control environmental quality (aka power to pollute") Consumers exercising power: power to: control distribution of support (financial support, power to: control discourse and ideas ( the public transcript") Climate change, whether people believe it is a real issue or not. In order to have funding directed to a plan of action the public transcript needs to be changed so that people care about that issue. Power is entangled in social relations between agents that differ in their interests, identities and resources . Physical environment as manifestation of power relations (bryant)
