More Related Content Similar to Hg 6e ch_04_lecture Similar to Hg 6e ch_04_lecture (20) More from lschmidt1170 (20) Hg 6e ch_04_lecture1. Chapter 4 Lecture
Human Geography: Places and
Regions in Global Context
Sixth Edition
People and Nature
Wendy A. Mitteager
State University of New York, Oneonta
2. Key Concepts
• Nature and Society
• Environmental Philosophies
• Ecological Imperialism
• Energy Needs
• Climate Change
• Environmental Impacts
• Globalization of Environment
• Sustainability
Figure: Chapter 4 Opener Rescue workers in Japan
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3. Nature as a Concept
• Relationship between nature and society
• Earth Summit
– Sustainable future
• Environmental
Advocates
– Pinchot, Carson,
Shiva
• Ecosystem
Figure 4.2 Technology often aggravates rather
than solves environmental problems
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4. Nature as a Concept, (cont'd)
• Technology • I=PAT
– Physical artifacts – Impact on earth resources
– Activities or processes – Population
– Knowledge or know-how – Affluence
– Technology
Figure 4.4 Electronic waste
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5. Nature-Society Interactions
• Cultural Ecology
• Global climate
change
• Hurricane Katrina
• Haiti earthquake
• Political Ecology Figure 4.6 Haiti, one year after the earthquake
Apply your knowledge: Give examples of cultural
ecology from your community or campus.
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6. Climate Change
Figure 4.5 Four elements represent how climate change is affecting the planet
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7. Water Politics
Figure 4.B Protesters in Bolivia, during the action
against the hike in water rates
Figure 4.A Virtual water expended to
produce foods
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8. U.S. Environmental Philosophies
• Views of nature
• Henry David Thoreau
– Romanticism
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
– Transcendentalism
• George Perkins Marsh Figure 4.8 Walden Pond today
– Humans as significant
agent of environmental
change
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9. U.S. Environmental Philosophies, (cont'd)
• Gifford Pinchot • Environmental Ethics
• Theodore Roosevelt • Ecofeminism
• Conservation & • Deep Ecology
Preservation • Environmental Justice
• Environmental • Ecotheology
organizations
Apply your knowledge: Provide examples of how
Thoreau's ideas about nature can be understood in terms
of late-twentieth-century environmental philosophies. Apply
the same analysis to Marsh and Emerson.
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10. European Expansion
• Internal, at first
• Disease & depopulation
– Virgin soil epidemics
– Columbian exchange
– Demographic collapse
Figure 4.10 Population growth in
Europe
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11. Ecological Imperialism
• Introduction of exotics
into new ecosystems
• Intentional and
unintentional
• Agriculture and
livestock
• Animal power
Figure 4.12 Painting of the capital city of the
Aztecs
Apply your knowledge: Provide examples of plants and
animals in your region that are examples of ecological
imperialism
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12. European Voyages of Exploration
Figure 4.11 Not all voyages were violent and exploitative – many were mutually
beneficial through the exchange of knowledge.
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13. Recent Environmental Change
• Anthropocene
• Impact of
energy needs
– Nonrenewable
– renewable
Figure 4.13 Biomass pyramid
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15. Peak Oil
Figure 4.C Oil reserves by region, Figure 4.D Predictions of future oil
2007 production
Figure 4.E Price of crude oil,
1986–2011
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16. Energy Needs
Figure 4.16 Surface coal mining in Germany
Figure 4.15 Increase in energy
demand
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20. Global Climate Change
Figure 4.F Schematic framework of climate change drivers, impacts,
and responses
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21. Global Climate Change, (cont'd)
Figure 4.G This graph shows projected sea level rise. The maps show the impact of 5 meters
of sea level rise.
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23. Global Acid Emissions
Figure 4.24
Apply your knowledge: How do various countries other
than the U.S. address the problem of acid rain?
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24. Impact of Land-Use Change
• Five categories of land
• Conversion
• Modification
Figure 4.30 Greening of the Sahel
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26. Globalization of the Environment
• Global change
• Environmental politics
– WTO, IMF, G8,
United Nations, NGOs
• Environmental
Sustainability
Figure 4.30 Bioprospecting
in the Arctic
Apply your knowledge: Research an international
institution that implements sustainable development
programming.
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27. Future Geographies
• Increase in world
energy consumption
– Population growth
– Periphery is
industrialized
• Global challenges will
require international
political and economic Figure 4.31 Raw materials are shipped out of the
U.S. to China. Containers from China to the U.S.
cooperation are loaded with manufactured commodities
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