SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Climate Change Mitigation, Eutrophication, Climate Change Adaptation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Donna Appavoo

Document Summary

Chapter 7 a political ecology approach to industrial. Understand the problems associated with cheap industrial food and the central place of food and agriculture in global environmental problems and solutions. Commodity fetishism: consumers are unaware of the social and ecological relations gone into making the things encountered in markets: costs and relations are hidden and incomprehensible. Aim for economies of scale: increase output per worker to reduce: achieved through fossil fuel powered machines, factories, relative cost of labour in production transportation system. Production standardized for both physical space and nature of work: biodiversity reduced, monoculture created (single crop fields) Examine a conceptual framework that sets out the unvalued and undervalued environmental costs that are embedded in high-yielding monocultures and factory farms, which are at the heart of the world food system. Political ecology: the political economic tendencies, power imbalances, Biophysical override: system with biological and physical instabilities,