GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Geopolitics, Big Data, Positivism
10 Aug 2020
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California"s water crisis- local: drought, history of water regulation, role of institutions, economy and land use, regional blocking high-pressure system, jet stream, enso, historical drought, global: pacific sea-surface temperatures, climate change. Mega-deltas- local: flooding, salt intrusion, changing agricultural practices, rural poverty, erosion and subsidence, micro-scale adaptation, regional: increasing rainfall and runoff, industrialisation and urbanisation, population growth, migration, river regulation, global: warming planet, more energetic. Asian summer monsoon, rising sea levels, rise of informal urbanism. Biodiversity and conversation- local: protected areas, species or communities, regulation, construction of place, regional: endemism, speciation, evolution, extinction, fire, climate, perceptions of nature and naturalness, protection, national parks, global: continental drift, isolation, collison, migration and invasion, mass extinction. Scale is an organising frameworks- hubristic model, hierarchical processes. Explain the meaning of place in contemporary geographical thought. Provide a hierarchical scalar critique of the current drought and water crisis in. California that integrates both social and biophysical factors.
