ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Soil Fertility, Acculturation, Exaptation

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: k.Spreyer

Document Summary

Lecture 29 chinese laborers and farmers in the california delta - outline. Blackboard: suchen chan: this bittersweet soil, gillenkirk and motlow ed: bitter melon locke, visit locke, kaz mori: friday. Today: sacramento san joaquin delta ecology, reclamation, role of chinese in reclamation of the delta and dev of ag niche production, chinese tenancy. Social & cultural resources: cultural heritage, social institutions and networks. Social incorporation: assimilation / acculturation: enclaves, migration: Economic strategies: niche production, labor resistance, ability of chinese recruit labor, they stick together. Political resources: constitutional rights, litigation, extending democracy"s reach. Great situations: transport agriculture product, social economic advantage, available of water, below sea-level. 1: location -- extension of san francisco bay, approximate to transportation to the bay, closed to sacramento -- mining sites, agriculture potential. Poor, risky: potentially agriculture productive place, fertile soil, some crops can generate 4 yields of crop per year, one coast range is broken -- inverted triangle, earthquake.