GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Health, Avoidance Speech, Political Ecology
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Ggrb21 lecture 2: the fundamentals: political vs. apolitical ecologies. Review of lecture 1: this course explores how politics, the economy, history and culture shape and are shaped by interactions of people with the physical environment, our interaction with the environment can be shaped by history (etc. A useful way of describing the intentions of radical movements in the us, in western europe and in other advanced industrial countries very distant from the original rather sedate operations of the ecolobby . Combines the concerns of ecology and a broadly defined political economy. Together this encompasses the constantly shifting dialect between society and land-based resources, and also within classes and groups within society itself. A synthesis of political economy, with its insistence on the need to link the distribution of power with productive activity and ecological. Explicate and describe first-world urban and rural environmental degredation from corporate and state mismanagement; document social activism in response.
