GEOG 2210 Chapter : GEOG 2210 Chpt 1 and 2 Summary
11 Feb 2012
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When speaking about environment we are talking about the whole of the aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric, non- human world. Trees, carbon dioxide or water, and the organic and non-organic processes that link and transform them. Human-environment relations: society (culture, politics, economic exchange govern the interrelationships) Humans are subject to organic processes of the environment. Photosynthesis: the most important environmental process in the history of civilization, allows food to be harvested for human consumption. The environment is fundamentally social and therefore is subject to influence from the actions of human activity. Human transformation of carbon levels in the environment could dramatically alter global photosynthesis with implications for food and social organization. Political ecology: an understanding that nature and society are produced together in a political economy that includes humans and non-humans. ^ understanding that relationships between people and the environment are governed by persistent, dominant and changing interactions of power.
