HIST 1080 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Profit Motive, Geopolitics
13 Dec 2014
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Adaptive capacity: awareness information technology skilled labour infrastructure . Economic resources awareness information (lecture sept 24) Arab spring: a series of protests against dictatorships and economic inequalities throughout. Egypt, tunisia, sudan, yemen, algeria, morocco, lebanon, iran, oman (pg. Belfour declaration: relates to the israeli lebanese/israeli palestinian conflict. British issues this agreement to allow jewish migration into palestine. This declaration related many issues because the area was populated by palestinians. (pg. Capitalism: is the system of social and economic organization characterized by the profit motive and individual and corporate ownership of productive goods and resources. (pg. 24) Carbon forestry: efforts are being made to prevent dangerous climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and from deforestation (ch. 7) Cold war: challenge of communism established the cold war, and it produced new regional configurations (pg. 24-25, lecture slide nov 3) Colonialism: political and economic system in which regions are legally, economically and politically dominated by an external or alien society. (pg.
