Population and Scarcity

Markets and Commodities

Institutions and the

Commons EthicsRisks and Hazards

Political Economy

Social Construction

of Nature

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Final Jeopardy

Malthus said that population grows at this kind of rate, which is faster than food production’s linear growth rate.

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This perspective arose in the late 1960s and drew from the work of Thomas Malthus to argue that population growth was the single greatest environmental threat, putting pressure on limited natural resources.

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The development of new agricultural techniques in the 1960s and 1970s that caused agriculture to be more productive than ever before.

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Draw the demographic transition model on the board. Label and explain its parts.

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The market response model predicts that scarcity of a resource will lead to a _________ in price, and then a __________ in demand for that resource.

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The theory that says sometimes conservation of a resource makes the price go down, which then leads to more consumption.

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The theory that states that environmental externalities are most efficiently controlled through bargaining and contracts between property owners.

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An example of an ecosystem service.

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The number of animals that can graze in a given area without causing degradation is called _______.

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The rules and norms governing our interactions with nature and resources refers to _______.

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According to Ostrom, successful commons management must include the following 7 design principles.

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Explain how the TOC works according to Hardin. What is its biggest oversight?

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This standpoint on environmental ethics believes that humans, and human welfare are the central factor in consideration of what is right and wrong action toward nature.

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This thesis holds that humans are separate from and better than nature and is based on Biblical tradition. It also holds that humans have free rein to use nature as they see fit.

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The difference between conservation and preservation, and the two main proponents of each view, as discussed in lecture.

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How does an ecocentric standpoint differ from that of an anthropocentric perspective?

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The known or estimated probability that a hazard-related decision will have a negative consequence.

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According to the political economy of risk, these are some reasons why not everyone is able to make a choice to limit risk in the same ways.

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The theory that people’s risk perceptions are influenced by group and social dynamics refers to ________.

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How would a risks and hazards perspective understand the enormous amount of damage that occurred as a result of Hurricane Irene? Natural disaster or man made?

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In Marxist thought, this describes the tendency for capitalism to eventually undermine the economic conditions for its own perpetuation, through overproduction of commodities and reduction of wages for would-be consumers.

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This term describes the transformation of an object or resource from something valued in and for itself, to something valued generically for exchange.

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The part of the economy, especially including household work, that depends on unremunerated labor, but without which the cash economy would suffer and collapse.

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The environmental program established to address abandoned hazardous waste sites in the United States.

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Puts signifying practices together into powerful, coherent, mutually supporting frameworks, which are persuasive and tend to stand the test of time.

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This is the major critique of Social Construction.

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Nature according to Williams, 3 things.

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Explain how the TOC is an environmental narrative, explain the power/knowledge promoted in the narrative (i.e. who wins, who looses, what’s left out of the knowledge of the narrative and how does this relate to empowerment).

This superfund site is located 8 miles from Boulder and was used by the Department of Energy to make plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons among other things.