Structure of exam:
1. co2 footprint question: use the website provided to analyze personal carbon footprint, assess what you can do to meet global averages and/or ‘replacement’ co2 levels.
- Comment specifically upon the difference between what you can do as an individual and what must be done with respect to national economic structure, governance and policy
- (Assignment: compare the urban structure of two cities, one non-western (non-first-world) and another from the 100 US metro areas reports.)
2. Biodiversity: define biodiversity, identify different forms of biodiversity, and assess threats to biodiversity arising from different social processes. How are different forms of biodiversity differently affected?
3. Ideas of nature: compare Western and Non-Western ideas of nature. Examples: Bacon versus Feng-shui; Judeo-Christian ideas versus Zapotec or Kung! Ideas.
- Western:
- Cultural: Greeks, Judeo-Christian, Bacon
- Political Economy: Commodity chains, Gewertz: fetishism and/or consumption
- Non-Western: Kung!, Zapotec, Chinese, Japanese.
- You can draw in other sources, just be sure that you preserve the Western versus Non-Western sources