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The World Overlooked: Integrating Science and Art

Environmental Humanities: Section B Spring 2019

  • Beauty Gone Bad
    • Environmental Injustices
    • Toxins in the Environment
    • Toxins in Human Health
    • “Green” Beauty Products
  • Environmental Film’s Dirty Truth
    • Consequences of Environmental Film
    • Law and Policy for Film Production
    • Possible Changes to the Film Industry
    • Benefits of Environmental Film
  • The Ethics of Hunting
    • The Benefits of Ethical Hunting for Human and Environmental Health.
    • Ancient Philosophical thought in Ethical Hunting
    • The Benefits of Ethical Hunting for Conservation
  • Food Gap & The Consumer Burden
    • Spatial Inequality
    • Meat Quality & Pathogenic Disease
    • Labeling Crisis Present in Nutrition Facts
    • Where’s the Help?
  • Pangolin Trafficking
    • Ecological Significance
    • Human/Pangolin Relationship
    • Wildlife Trafficking
    • Media Influence
    • Stakeholders
    • Closer to Home
  • Fear the Shark No More!
    • Ecological Importance of Sharks
    • The Effects of Media on the Public Perception of the Great White Shark
    • Human Relationship with the Ocean and Sharks
    • Global Demand for Shark Fins
  • Pesticides or Ecocide?
    • Dependency on the Agricultural Industry
    • Pesticide Use in Farming
    • Effects on Human Health
    • Environmental Justice
    • Effects on Wildlife
    • Alternative Farming Options
  • Pythonssss Invade the Evergladesssss
    • The Story of the Burmese Pythons
    • Economic Impacts of the Python Invasion
    • Snakes in Religion and Culture
    • Ecological Impacts of the Burmese Python
  • Trashy Combustion of Justice
    • Environmental Justice
    • Environmental Racism in the U.S
    • Case Studies: Campo Nation Landfill and Old Smokey Incinerator
    • Environmental Injustice: Moving Towards Justice and Possible Solutions
    • What’s Next?

Food Swamps & Deserts

Posted on April 29, 2019 by crowch04

Food swamps have been described as areas with a high-density of establishments selling high-calorie fast food and junk food, relative to healthier food options (Cooksey-Stowers).

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Social Geography

Food Insecurity

Posted on April 28, 2019 by langma05

Opposed to hunger or the feeling of personal distress, food insecurity is the limited access to healthy food options and the uncertainty of its availability.

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Consumption

Speciesism

Posted on April 28, 2019 by gallse01

Speciesism is the discrimination towards various species and thinking of species as pests. It occurs when treating one species as more important than another species;

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Speciesism

Public Health Complications

Posted on April 23, 2019 by langma05

Public health refers to anything that effects the population as a whole, specifically relating to prolonging life and preventing disease that may have a negative

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Consumption

History and Myth

Posted on April 23, 2019 by gallse01

History is the stories told by one sociocultural group about their collective past, while myth is a central idea based on that collective story, filtered

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History and Myth

Unfair Burden

Posted on April 23, 2019 by crowch04

The Unfair Burden put on consumers in low income areas is a product of fast food industries’ exploitation of their spatial constraints. This burden includes

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Social Geography

Pluralism Spectrum

Posted on April 16, 2019 by musssp01

Definitions:  The Pluralism Spectrum:        |———————–|————————-| Flabby Pluralism                               

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Pluralism Spectrum

Conservation vs. Preservation

Posted on April 15, 2019 by musssp01

Definitions: Conservation: The careful and sustainable management of natural resources to maintain the viability of the resource for the future and protection from exploitation. Preservation:

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Conservation vs. Preservation

Environmental Justice

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Alyssa

Environmental Justice: Equal treatment and involvement towards environmental rules, regulations, and enforcement regardless of an individual’s or community’s identity.  The Environmental Justice movement began in

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Environmental Justice

Resourcism

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Alyssa

Resourcism is a utilitarian view on land and environmental resources, as merely a commodity and a means to produce goods and services (Perley 13). Resourcism

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Resourcism

Wilderness and Wildness

Posted on April 15, 2019 by coalan01

Wilderness: An uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region. A place where “Man” can go but not remain. Wild(ness): A reminder of Wilderness closer to the dwellings

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Wilderness & Wild(ness)

Environmental History

Posted on April 15, 2019 by coalan01

  Definition: The study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasizing the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice

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Environmental History

Greenwashing

Posted on April 15, 2019 by smitca08

Green washing is a way that companies market their products to consumers to make them seem more appealing. Companies entice consumers to buy their products

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Greenwashing

Social Geography

Posted on April 14, 2019 by crowch04

Social Geography can be defined as the modern, spatial organization of cities and suburbs, and how it influences, limits, and constrains the individual consumer’s choices

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Social Geography

Consumption

Posted on April 14, 2019 by langma05

The use of resources and services for the needs of human beings that have an impact on the environment at a worldwide scale.   Consumption

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Consumption

Place-Making

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Lauren

Place-making is defined as the process of “mak[ing] places out of spaces not just by physically altering them but also via the social and mental

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Place-making

Environmental Communication

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Megan

Environmental communication is the various ways we communicate about the natural world (Corbett, J. 2).   Much of what is communicated about the environment often

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Environmental Communication

Stakeholders

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Lauren

Stakeholders are groups of people, organisms, and individuals who are affected by or may have an effect on environmental issues, whether directly or indirectly (Mitchell

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Stakeholders

Cognized Environments

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Ewan Lancaster

Cognized environments are the human definitions and interpretations of the biospherical environment” (Harper 11). Human choices and the policies we make directly relate to how

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Cognized Environment

Ecomedia

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Megan

Ecomedia is a practice of media analysis that helps us move beyond the notion of common sense to what Farrell describes as commons sense (Rust

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Ecomedia

Individualization of Responsibility

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Alexa Kerprich

The responsibility of each individual to solve environmental problems rather than the responsibility of the culture or institution (Maniates 33).   Individualization of responsibility involves

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Individualization of Responsibility

Environmental Racism

Posted on April 12, 2019 by pultma01

Practices and policies that disadvantage (whether intentionally or unintentionally) individuals, groups, or communities based on race, ethnicity, and color (Bullard 91).   Elements of racism

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Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism

Slow Violence

Posted on March 21, 2019 by pultma01

A violence that is not spectacular or instantaneous but instead incremental, and whose repercussions accrue and are felt over time (years, decades, centuries) (Rob Nixon).

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Slow Violence

Resourcism

Posted on March 21, 2019 by mandky01

Resourcism is the environmental ideology of seeing nature only for its utilitarian value. This can manifest in exploiting a resource for personal use or economic

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Resourcism

Keywords Lexicon

  • Cognized Environment
  • Conservation vs. Preservation
  • Consumption
  • Ecomedia
  • Environmental Communication
  • Environmental History
  • Environmental Justice
  • Environmental Racism
  • Greenwashing
  • History and Myth
  • Individualization of Responsibility
  • Place-making
  • Pluralism Spectrum
  • Resourcism
  • Slow Violence
  • Social Geography
  • Speciesism
  • Stakeholders
  • Wilderness & Wild(ness)
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