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social production of natureĀ 
the refashioning of landscapes and species by human activity, especially capitalist production and labor processesĀ 
conservation
the view that natural resources should be used wisely and their society;s effects on the natural world should represent stewardship and not exploitation.
preservation
an approach to nature advocating that some habitats, species, and resources should remain off limits to human use, regardless of whether the use maintains or depletes the resource in question.
Cultural ecology
study of the relationship between cultural groups and its natural environment
political ecology
the approach to cultural geography that studies human environment relations through the relationships of patterns of resource use to poetical and economic resources.
environmental justice
movement reflecting a growing political consciousness, largely among the worlds poor, that their immediate environments are far more toxic than wealthy neighborhoods.
first nature
pristine, natural, untouched
second nature
environments modified by human activity
technology
physical objects or artifacts, activities or processes, and knowledge
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring, warned of the danger of ag pesticides
I-PAT
Impact on earth's resources, Population, Affluence, as measured per capita income, Technology
Metabolism
Humans must turn the environment into things that sustain our existence
Newtown Florist Club
Enviromental Justice EX; Neighborhood in Gainesville built on landfill caused disease as industry grew
Culture
shared set of meanings that are lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life.
cultural geography
how space place and landscape shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space place and landscape.
Gender
the social differences between men and women rather than anatomical differences that are related to sex.
gender performativity
gender is a learned behavior
race
problematic classification of human beings based on skin color and other physical characteristics
radicalization
tiers to understand how whiteness became the norm
sexuality
the set practices and identities that given culture considers related to each other and to those things it considers sexual acts and desires.
Jane Elliot
blue eyed/brown eyed experiment
Robert Moses
visionary architect who transformed NYC, helped create modern suburb. Bulldozed low-income houses, replaced with high-rise towers.
Cross Bronx Expressway
away for people to get out of the city quickly. It led to the removal of middle class in Bronx.
Urban Renewal
At the same time, Manhattan changes are happening. Ghettos were removed and displaced poor, lower class. Poor were placed in high-rise apartments and pushed out of Manhattan.
The South Bronx
caught in master development plan and becomes origin of hiphop
Benign Effect
the civil rights movement actions that the government did was in harm, so the gov't should not be involved and let the economy drive community.
DJ Kool Here
first hiphop dj, began playing breaks on records, break dancing and rapping
Afrika Baambataa
Gang member, formed zulu nation and turned pointless street violence to cultural importance. Positive street gang dedicated to music knowledge.
4 elements of hip hop
Dj-ing rapping or toasting break dancing graffiti
toasting
Jamaican artists that were precursors of american rappers. Chanting or rhyming over a beat
All City
graffiti a train that ran through all of NYC
Represent
based in the beginning of competition b/w neighborhoods so the modern slang of "you got to represent" your affiliation came afterward
Prop 13
Legislation 1979 passed in CA, cap levels of property taxes that the gov't can collect, dramatically alters the state and local finances.
drugs
crack hit LA hard, helped by Rick Ross, the Contras, and the CIA
Watts Riots
really radicalized a generation of that would go on to be gangster rappers
Operation Hammer/LAPD
They would go through the neighborhood and arrest anyone on the streets just because they fit the profile of a gang member.
Derelict landscape
landscapes that have experimented, abandonment, misuse or disinvestment
Territoriality
the specific attachment of individuals or people to a specific location or territory
landscape as a text
the idea that landscapes can be read and written by groups of individuals
semiotics
the practice of writing and reading signs
primary activities
economic activities that are concerned directly with natural resources of any kind
secondary activities
economic activities that process, transform, fabricate, or assemble the raw materials derived from primary activities, or that reassemble, refinish, or package manufactured goods
tertiary activities
economics activities involving the sale and exchange of goods and services
Quaternary Activities
economic activities that deal with the handling and processing of knowledge and information
geographical and international division of labor
the specialization by countries, in particular products of export
Newly industrialized countries (NICs)
countries formally peripheral within the world system that have acquired a significant industrial sector, usually through foreign direct investment
Economic development
refers the process of change involving the nature and composition of the economy of a particular region as well as to increase in the overall prosperity of a region.
initial advantage
the critical importance of an early start in economic development; a special case of external economies
cumulative causation
a spiral build up of advantages that occurs in specific geographic setting as a result of the development of external economies, agglomeration effects and localization economies.
spread effects
the positive impacts on a region of the economic growth of some other region
creative destruction
the withdraw of investments from activities that yield low rates of profit in order to reinvest in new activities.
Fordism
principles for mass production based on assembly line techniques, scientific management, mass consumption based on higher wages, and sophisticated advertising techniques
post industrial economy
economies where the tertiary and quarterly sectors have grown to dominate the workforce, with smaller but highly productive secondary sectors

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