People normally understand environmental problems as resource scarcity (eg. lack of energy fuels) and aesthetic issues (eg. degradation of a beautiful bay due to plastic wastes). As we understand from the previous section, resource scarcity and aesthetic issues are only a results of an attack to the ecosystem services by human activities. Indeed, we analyze such problems under the scope of “what humans get” from nature in order to consume and produce. However, there is much more at stake in the complex environmental issues.
Problems such as ethnic discrimination, nature exploitation, gender inequality, economic and political interests, limited access to technologies and innovations are up to some point related, in a sense that the one thing may cause or support the emergence of the other.
In this part, we will investigate the connection between global and local inequalities, hierarchies and environmental issues.
Activity 4.1 Globalization
Activity 4.2 Global Inequalities
Activity 4.3 Labor Inequalities
Activity 4.4 Inequalities and Violation of Rights
Activity 4.5 Governance and Social Conflict
Problems such as ethnic discrimination, nature exploitation, gender inequality, economic and political interests, limited access to technologies and innovations are up to some point related, in a sense that the one thing may cause or support the emergence of the other.
In this part, we will investigate the connection between global and local inequalities, hierarchies and environmental issues.
Activity 4.1 Globalization
Activity 4.2 Global Inequalities
Activity 4.3 Labor Inequalities
Activity 4.4 Inequalities and Violation of Rights
Activity 4.5 Governance and Social Conflict
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