Geography 1500F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Ecosystem Services, Reducing Emissions From Deforestation And Forest Degradation
7 Dec 2018
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Space -- the locations of events, places and phenomena : where things occur often represented on maps, more objective. Place: space is organized into places often thought of as bounded settings in which social relations and identity are constituted : more subjective. Soja a hierarchy of nested locales: global, national, regional, local , not rigid and fixed. Temporal scale: time usually seen as linear, long/short term connections, choices of what spatial and temporal scales to consider can set boundaries how we interpret problems and solun"s. Time-space compression: technology shrinks the world : david harvey, rapid travel and communications let people and goods move faster, farther, but! There are tools to help us understand systems and interconnections. A way to account for different kinds of benefits that ecosystems provide. Makes visible many things that are usually invisible in economic discussions about benefits and costs. Some ecosystem services (cultural, supporting) could only be provided when grown on a small scale/ others(provisioning) verse-wise.
