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| Areas with large amounts of hazardous waste that undergo cleanup efforts |
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| Warren County- NC- environmental racisim |
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| PCB dumped alongside roads of low income area |
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| relates organisms, environment, with laws government, customs, and economic trading/production |
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| Society resources dialectic (P. Ecology |
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| Degradation is cause and effect of social relations- cycles of worsening poverty linked to management decisions |
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| scales of decision making |
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| connect decisions to consequences via institutional power, politics of the time, etc. && Physical patters are products of social relations |
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| Influence why we use the environment in certain ways |
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| Not in my back yard- certain activities are ok, as long as they are out of sight/mind |
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| Nuclear waste disposal site approved |
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| trick public into making companies appear environmentally friendly (Eco-friendly, organic, green) |
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| Sioux should govern for growing hemp on reservations, US steps in. Had economic depression, hemp was an easy grower for products |
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| authority of a state to govern itself |
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| State maintains sovereignty and legitimacy by establishing spaces where people are dependent:::: Defined by state via maps, treaties, etc. |
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| Operated within and challenge spaces of dependence, created by local organizations.:::: Made by people within Space of dependence to resist domination via protest, etc. |
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| Grand canyon,Reports on the lands of the arid region of the united states- only 2% of west is habitable.. form state boundaries based on "WATERSHEDS" |
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| area of land for which all surface water will drain to a certain point |
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| Preservationist- Founded Sierra Club, Yosemite and Sequoia nat'l parks. "LEaVe It AlOnE OmG~~" J. Muir |
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| Gifford Pinochet- Politician |
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| Conservationist- Use it, but wisely. Market Philosophy |
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| Aquatic Biologist- SILENT SPRING, pesticides. Focused on effects of DDT and birds |
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| Use during wwII- half life of 30 yrs. can cause cancer. |
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| Make US surface water swimmable and fishable. Regulated POINT SOURCES- pollution out of a pipe. Single source of pollution |
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| distributed sources, not easy to pinpoint |
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| over-nourishing can be a pollution, reduces oxygen for aquatic life to the point of suffocation |
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| trees and vegetation planted along streams to reduce soil erosion from stream banks and catch sediment before it enters streams |
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| natural filter for pollutants |
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| fish react similarly to humans |
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