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ENVS461 "Hatchet and seed" project
By Chaoran Chen August 7, 2023 - 6:52amNEOLIBERALISM POLICY IN THE UK: AN EXAMINATION OF ITS IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY, SOCIETY, AND LOCAL ECOLOGYENVS461 blog 11 unit 10 Climate justice and just transitions
By Chaoran Chen July 28, 2023 - 4:59amI've found the "frontline" of the climate crisis, and nowhere is there more sensitivity to climate change than in those island nations that could be submerged at any time due to rising sea levels as a result of global warming....
ENVS461 blog 10 unit 9 Settler colonialism and decolonization
By Chaoran Chen July 26, 2023 - 6:05amSettler colonialism usually adopts a racial organizational grammar. Territoriality is an essential element of settler colonialism, usually existing in a way that increases opportunities for acquiring land. Settler colonialism is a...
ENVS461 blog 9 unit 8 Environmental racism, violence, and (in)justice
By Chaoran Chen July 25, 2023 - 6:57amIf when blacks and indigenous people are no longer devalued, which requires the complete eradication of white supremacy, people of color will have access to the same employment opportunities, social status, and economic wealth as whites, so that...
ENVS461 blog 8 unit 7 Gender, enclosure, and subsistence
By Chaoran Chen July 25, 2023 - 3:15amRauna Kuokkanen argues that the importance of the traditional economies of indigenous communities extends beyond the economic sphere.Rauna Kuokkanen also argues that it is incorrect to suggest that indigenous or subsistence...
ENVS461 blog 7 unit 6 The politics of neoliberalism
By Chaoran Chen July 14, 2023 - 11:56pmAIn Neoliberalism and the Environment in Latin America, the authors describe many of the neoliberal responses to climate change, such as deregulation and cuts in public spending on environmental management. (Liverman & Vilas, 2006)...
ENVS461 blog 6 Unit 5: Anthropocene, Capitalocene
By Chaoran Chen July 14, 2023 - 2:16amIn contrast to the Anthropocene view of environmental problems as a generalisation of all human-created negative impacts on the environment, Capitalocene's argument rejects the flat perspective of all human-centred irreversible...
ENVS461 blog 5 unit 4 natural disasters and (a)political responses
By Chaoran Chen July 8, 2023 - 1:33amWe all know that technology has now grown exponentially over the last few decades, but nowadays humans are often still too small in the face of the forces of nature, and every natural disaster that occurs causes billions or even...
ENVS461 blog 4 unit 3 Social constructions of nature and wilderness
By Chaoran Chen July 7, 2023 - 8:30pmAccording to William Cronon, the question of wilderness is why it has gone from being “deserted,” “savage,” “desolate,” “barren” to a sacred place to which everyone aspires. The word wilderness is...
ENVS461 blog 3 unit2 Property
By Chaoran Chen July 6, 2023 - 4:43amIn the first story, people treat the proceeds of their labour as their property and the things of the world (i.e. everything created by God) as things that can be turned into property. The introduction of private property is fundamental to the...
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