REM 100 Lecture Notes - Smokeless Powder, Indirect Fire, Trinitrotoluene

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Resource & Environmtl Mgmt
• Course: REM 100
• Professor: Neil Braganza

Document Summary

The cartesian, or dualistic view, led to a development paradigm that decimates nature and women simultaneously; An ecologically sustainable future can draw on the world views of ancient civilisations and diverse cultures, which were able to survive and thrive sustainably over centuries; Ecological ways of knowing nature are participatory; By participating as silviculturalists, agriculturalists, and water resource managers (land managers) women are the traditional natural scientists; They possess knowledge which is ecological and plural; and. Relies on both ecological and cultural diversity. Ecological effects of war: environmental disturbance and destruction from weaponry, direct consumption of resources such as timber, water and food to support armies; and. Indirect consumption of resources by military industrial complexes that supply the war effort. Hupy (2003) notes that environmental disturbance has steadily increased in scale (both spatially and temporally) from ancient times to the contemporary era; Contemporary war is of greater magnitude than of warfare before the industrial revolution;