climbeco phd course module 1 session 1
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Module 1 Session 1 of climBEco PhD course, Lund UniversityTRANSCRIPT
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Welcome to this PhD course !
From Local to Global: Political Ecology, Natural Resource
Conflicts and Environmental Peacebuilding
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Who Are You ?
• Where are you from ?
• Discipline ?
• University ?
• Why are you interested in this course ?
• What are your expectations ?
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Course Overview
• Module 1: Scales in Environmental Governance
– Session 1: Key concepts
– Session 2: Scales in Environmental governance
– Session 3: Bottom-up and Top-down
– Session 4: International politics
• Module 2: Political Dimensions of Environmental Governance
– Session 5: Political Ecology and Human Ecosystems
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Course Overview
– Session 6: Interlinkages: Global security, Trade and Environmental Governance
– Session 7: Transnationality and Global Governance of natural resource extraction
• Module 3: Theory and case studies
– Session 8: Political theory and practice
– Session 9: Abiotic natural resources – case
– Session 10: Animal resources - case
– Session 11: Biotic natural resources - case
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Module 1Scales in Environmental Governance
Session 1: Understanding key concepts
Dr. Joshka Wessels
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Key concepts
• What is the environment ?
• What is environmental governance ?
• What is global and local governance ?
• What is environmental politics ?
• What is political ecology ?
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What is the environment?
• Care about the “environment”
• Environmentalists
• There is no “single environment”
• Are humans separate from the “environment” ?
• Which era are we living ?
• The Anthropocene
• Framing and politics
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What is global/local environmental governance?
How do we construct space and place ?
•Commodity chains
•Water sheds
•Ecosystems
•CFC-based refrigirators
•Fish populations
•Geological formations
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What is political ecology vs environmental politics ?
Write down your definition of both concepts (10 mins)
What are differences and similarities ?
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Environmental Politics
• Immense field of study, cross-cutting theme
• Environmental Politics
– The study of political theories and paradigms related to the environment
– Investigating the positioning of parties
– Environmental policy at multiple geopolitical levels(Neil
Carter, 2009)
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Environmental Politics
– Not one definition of environmentalism: a wide variety of discursive fields and frames
– Competing notions on what drives environmental degradation
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Environmental Politics
Robert Brulle: four standard approaches of understanding environmental politics
1.Changes in political opportunity structure
2.Movement activities
3.Development and promulgation of new cultural beliefs
4.Condition of the natural environment
Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective (2010) AvKevin T. Leicht,J. Craig Jenkins: pp. 385-405
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Political Ecology
Term coined by Frank Thone (1935) "Nature Rambling: We Fight for Grass," The Science Newsletter 27, 717, Jan. 5: 14
“Research has sought primarily to understand the political dynamics surrounding material and discursive struggles over the environment in the third world”
Bryant 1998, p. 89.
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Political Ecology
• Humans are political animals and the use of natural resources is a political act in which people interact at different levels between which various power relations exist (Dietz, 1996).
• Political ecology calls for a greater emphasis of study on local power dynamics on common-pool resources and the environment (McCay, 2002; Dietz, 1996).
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Political Ecology
Political ecology is an area of social research investigating the environmental dimensions to armed and unarmed conflicts. A basic research question in political ecology looks at who plays a role in resource extraction and maintenance in an environment where people interact at different levels between which various power relations exist (Dietz, 1996).
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Political Ecology
Political ecology: “the study of the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes. Political ecology differs from apolitical ecological studies by politicizing environmental issues and phenomena”
(Wikipedia)
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What’s wrong with?
“Man and the environment”