IDSB01H3 Final: IDSB01 Final Study guide
27 Feb 2020
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Political ecology : explains linkages in the condition and change of social/environmental systems, with explicit consideration of relations of power. Looks at the distribution of environmental assets/wealth. Looks at the distribution of environmental costs and benefits. (who gains from environmental degradation and who bears the burden of environmental degradation ) Draws on several power theories such as political economy, sociology, feminist theory. The political ecology of chixoy dam in guatemala. Energy fro the urban areas and industrial centre doesn"t help the rural areas. Energy for the guatemalan urban consumers and industrial use. Loss of life and land for upstream communities -communities who had to move their land and home, or else it would be flooded. Loss of water for downstream communities-where the water flowed. Environmental injustice - the ones who are affected by environmental costs, do not benefit. Erasure of indigenous land tenure arrangements through the use of brute force.
