[ENVIR ST 139] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (15 pages long)

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Environmental Studies - Gaylord Nelson Institute
• Course: ENVIR ST 139
• Professor: Morgan Robertson

Document Summary

Viewing problems as global make our own selves disappear and with it, our own significance. These two things obviously have different levels of environmental impact. Embody an arrogance, my view is the universal view . We need to move past the labels global" and local" because they obscure more than define. Final exam is not comprehensive, the final exam = on the last 3rd of the course. The 1st discipline to be named in the western european tradition. Forces us to choose to be literate in science or social science. Geographers = skeptical of the idea that natural forces determine behavior, since there is a social aspect. Geographers = looking for authorless beings (society, the state, the economy) The global challenge of feeding people and the environmental issue of shifting to intensive agriculture. Framework of environmental laws in the us and world. Value of market-based approaches to solving environmental issues.