Historical responsibility: Assessing the past in international climate
... Discourse theory can usefully inform this argument. It can be used to investigate how social practices, such as the UNFCCC, contribute to constructing social reality through discourse (Howarth & Stavrakakis, 2000: 3). This means that knowledge of the world is created in social interactions and that ...
... Discourse theory can usefully inform this argument. It can be used to investigate how social practices, such as the UNFCCC, contribute to constructing social reality through discourse (Howarth & Stavrakakis, 2000: 3). This means that knowledge of the world is created in social interactions and that ...
The Political Life of Wetlands in Southern Louisiana
... atop the things on the land are equally unstable, given to ‘slippage, erasure, and rupture.’ Furthermore, the delta landscape encompasses the human and the biophysical as agents of change, as forces constantly producing that landscape, or as Cindi Katz describes New Orleans, “an impossible geograph ...
... atop the things on the land are equally unstable, given to ‘slippage, erasure, and rupture.’ Furthermore, the delta landscape encompasses the human and the biophysical as agents of change, as forces constantly producing that landscape, or as Cindi Katz describes New Orleans, “an impossible geograph ...
Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience
... ABSTRACT. This article reviews the variety of definitions proposed for “resilience” within sustainability science and suggests a typology according to the specific degree of normativity. There is a tension between the original descriptive concept of resilience first defined in ecological science and ...
... ABSTRACT. This article reviews the variety of definitions proposed for “resilience” within sustainability science and suggests a typology according to the specific degree of normativity. There is a tension between the original descriptive concept of resilience first defined in ecological science and ...
i2100e03
... permanence in the delivery of ecosystem services cannot be expected given the high rate of catastrophes, the subtle ongoing changes currently affecting the planet and the many demands and ecological pressures placed on land. Socio-economic permanence in the delivery of ecosystem services is also not ...
... permanence in the delivery of ecosystem services cannot be expected given the high rate of catastrophes, the subtle ongoing changes currently affecting the planet and the many demands and ecological pressures placed on land. Socio-economic permanence in the delivery of ecosystem services is also not ...
critical political ecology
... the critique of modernity in the fashion of these critics and the early scholars of the Frankfurt School might also imply forms of environmental explanation that may not acknowledge how it approaches the complexities of ecological reality in the biophysical world. One important additional aspect of ...
... the critique of modernity in the fashion of these critics and the early scholars of the Frankfurt School might also imply forms of environmental explanation that may not acknowledge how it approaches the complexities of ecological reality in the biophysical world. One important additional aspect of ...
The historicity of human geography
... Human geography has a profoundly active dimension, as it is directly concerned with the making of lives and landscapes. This making is necessarily a dynamic process, involving the action, negotiation and struggle of individuals in a variety of situations. It is for this reason that the category of e ...
... Human geography has a profoundly active dimension, as it is directly concerned with the making of lives and landscapes. This making is necessarily a dynamic process, involving the action, negotiation and struggle of individuals in a variety of situations. It is for this reason that the category of e ...
Modifying landscapes and mass kills
... primary ways in which this is accomplished is through a restructuring of local ecosystems so that more of the solar radiation entering it each year is transformed into new organic matter in plants (and subsequently in the animals that feed on them) that human groups depend on for food and raw materi ...
... primary ways in which this is accomplished is through a restructuring of local ecosystems so that more of the solar radiation entering it each year is transformed into new organic matter in plants (and subsequently in the animals that feed on them) that human groups depend on for food and raw materi ...
Chapter II Roots of Ecocriticism The study of literature
... the relations between writers, texts and ―the world‖. In most literary theory ―the world‖ is synonymous with society--- the social sphere. Ecocriticism expands the notion of ―the world‖ to include the entire ecosphere. Ecocriticism takes an earth-centered approach to literary criticism. Ecocritics a ...
... the relations between writers, texts and ―the world‖. In most literary theory ―the world‖ is synonymous with society--- the social sphere. Ecocriticism expands the notion of ―the world‖ to include the entire ecosphere. Ecocriticism takes an earth-centered approach to literary criticism. Ecocritics a ...
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... different levels of organization that ecologists study AND will be able to describe research methods ecologists use to study the environment ...
... different levels of organization that ecologists study AND will be able to describe research methods ecologists use to study the environment ...
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... important because the knowledge we have about the environment shapes, in a fundamental way, what we perceive to be problems and what potential policy tools we can consider for addressing those problems. In the US, research priority-setting processes within disciplines are largely handled by discipli ...
... important because the knowledge we have about the environment shapes, in a fundamental way, what we perceive to be problems and what potential policy tools we can consider for addressing those problems. In the US, research priority-setting processes within disciplines are largely handled by discipli ...
... should not be domesticated or controlled to create a general well-being because it provides the sources for survival. The discussion with Heidegger respecting to what Ingold calls, “the dwelling perspective” deserves considerable attention. The British anthropologist acknowledges that anthropology i ...
Ecosystems provide society with valuable services such as food
... adds humans to the landscape as another integral component, along with plants, animals, soil, water and more, Turner emphasises. Turner adds that it’s not as simple as demonstrating that humans suffer once a service is degraded, “There’s no correlation, at least in the short run, between the materia ...
... adds humans to the landscape as another integral component, along with plants, animals, soil, water and more, Turner emphasises. Turner adds that it’s not as simple as demonstrating that humans suffer once a service is degraded, “There’s no correlation, at least in the short run, between the materia ...
Historical ecology
Historical ecology is a research program that focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment over long-term periods of time, typically over the course of centuries. In order to carry out this work, historical ecologists synthesize long-series data collected by practitioners in diverse fields. Rather than concentrating on one specific event, historical ecology aims to study and understand this interaction across both time and space in order to gain a full understanding of its cumulative effects. Through this interplay, humans adapt to and shape the environment, continuously contributing to landscape transformation. Historical ecologists recognize that humans have had world-wide influences, impact landscape in dissimilar ways which increase or decrease species diversity, and that a holistic perspective is critical to be able to understand that system.Piecing together landscapes requires a sometimes difficult union between natural and social sciences, close attention to geographic and temporal scales, a knowledge of the range of human ecological complexity, and the presentation of findings in a way that is useful to researchers in many fields. Those tasks require theory and methods drawn from geography, biology, ecology, history, sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines. Common methods include historical research, climatological reconstructions, plant and animal surveys, archaeological excavations, ethnographic interviews, and landscape reconstructions.