GGRB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Political Ecology, Ecological Anthropology, Ecological Systems Theory
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Ggrb21: jan. 11 introduction to environmental geographies political ecology . Michael watts (2000) in: a companion to economic geography. The origin of the couplet politics & ecology is instructive in itself since it dates to the 1970s when a variety of commentators (journalist cockburm, anthropologists. The phrase political ecology" combines the concerns of ecology and a broadly defined political economy. Together this encompasses the constantly shifting dialectic between society and land- based resources, and also within classes and groups within society itself (blaike & brookefield, Vietnam) and the consequences of the cold war & atomic bomb. In geography, this approach was referred to as cultural ecology": third, is rooted in the social science of the nuclear age and the post-war development of human responses to hazards and disaster. Threat was the course atomic, and the deepening of the cold war which produced a number of gov"t-funded studies on the perception of, and responses to, environmental threats.
