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.

  1. 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
  2. (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.

  1. Western:
  2. Cultural: Greeks, Judeo-Christian, Bacon
  3. Political Economy: Commodity chains, Gewertz: fetishism and/or consumption
  4. Non-Western: Kung!, Zapotec, Chinese, Japanese.
  5. You can draw in other sources, just be sure that you preserve the Western versus Non-Western sources