Food Swamps & Deserts
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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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.
Continue reading »Speciesism
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;
Continue reading »Public Health Complications
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
Continue reading »History and Myth
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
Continue reading »Unfair Burden
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
Continue reading »Pluralism Spectrum
Definitions: The Pluralism Spectrum: |———————–|————————-| Flabby Pluralism
Continue reading »Conservation vs. Preservation
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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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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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
Continue reading »Wilderness and Wildness
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
Continue reading »Environmental History
Definition: The study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasizing the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice
Continue reading »Greenwashing
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
Continue reading »Social Geography
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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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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Place-Making
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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Environmental Communication
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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Stakeholders
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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Cognized Environments
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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Ecomedia
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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Individualization of Responsibility
The responsibility of each individual to solve environmental problems rather than the responsibility of the culture or institution (Maniates 33). Individualization of responsibility involves
Continue reading »Environmental Racism
Practices and policies that disadvantage (whether intentionally or unintentionally) individuals, groups, or communities based on race, ethnicity, and color (Bullard 91). Elements of racism
Continue reading »Slow Violence
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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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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