Geography 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gaia Hypothesis, Homeostasis, Carbon Footprint

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2410A/B
• Professor: Jeff Hopkins

Document Summary

Lecture 9 society, nature and landscapes: meanings of society", nature", and landscape", ways of scaping: feng shui, ways of scaping: ecological approach, scientific, eco-feminist. Final exam: lecture 7-12 for the multiple choice, and short answer, essay question draws from entire course. And performances through which meanings are produced. E. g. its her nature to be kind. E. g. that are natural limits to growth. Areas unaltered by and external to human actions. Given rise to three dominant views of human-nature relations: human kind in harmony with nature (growing organic, human kind being dominated by nature (natural disasters, human kind dominating nature (destroying nature) Entire physical world, including perhaps humans: point: Nature" is as much an idea or concept as it is a material reality. Even what we deem as separate from humanity e. g. the sun is a human made label and distinction. Material reality outside of human perceptions are unknowable.