IZ050 Political ecology and environmental change

Přírodovědecká fakulta
podzim 2016
Rozsah
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Vyučující
Dr. Christos Zografos (přednášející), RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. (zástupce)
RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. (pomocník)
Garance
RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D.
Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
In the serie of two lectures, Christos Zografos will explore some key ways in which power influences environmental change and governance, from an environmental social science perspective. The lectures draw on the disciplines of political ecology, ecological economics, and environmental history that explain how environmental change is produced and what are its social implications. The purpose is to develop a critical understanding of environmental change and the relevance of power and politics in incurring this.
Osnova
  • The first lecture will introduce the field of political ecology. A key characteristic of the field is that it studies and analyses the way in which relations of power shape environmental transformations. The lecture will use examples from case studies in the field to illustrate how various understandings of how power works are used in political ecology.
  • The second lecture will present a critical study (informed by political ecology theories) of the social dimensions of the relation between climate change and security. The lecture will explain the key ideas in the scientific literature about the climate change – security relation, and present the results of a major research project on the topic (whose research was coordinated by the lecturer), the CLICO project (www.clico.org). It will moreover familiarise students with the work done in large, EU-funded research projects.
Metody hodnocení
Those lectures come with 1 credit. To obtain the credit, you must attend both lectures, read a text and answer a question (see below) in a short essay of no more than 1,000 words. You should email the essay to both the lecturer (czografos@gmail.com) and Dr. Petr Daněk (danek@sci.muni.cz), by 2nd December. The essays will be corrected by 23th December.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Essay 1. Read the following text: ‘Call climate change what it is: violence’ by Rebecca Solnit, published at the newspaper The Guardian, 7 April 2014 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/climate-change-violence-occupy-earth 2. Answer the following question: Solnit makes the argument that instead of thinking of climate change as the trigger for violence, we should think of climate change itself as violence. Explain what she means by this. Do you agree or disagree with her, and why? To answer the question successfully and obtain the credit, you should properly: • Explain in your own words (and not copy-paste the article) how Solnit argues that climate change is violence. • Describe at least one way (either directly mentioned or implied by Solnit) in which power relations are relevant for producing climate change as violence. The contents of the first lecture should provide you with material to help you answer this. • Explain why you agree or disagree with Solnit, by providing reasons why you do so. • Support your reasons with evidence; for example, use other examples than those mentioned by Solnit, or evidence (e.g. findings, conclusions) from scientific studies to justify your answer.
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Poznámka k periodicitě výuky: úterý 8. listopadu 2016, 16:00-17:30 hod. (posluchárna Z3), čtvrtek 10. listopadu 2016, 12:00-13:30 hod. (posluchárna Z3).
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