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Week 2: Definitions and contexts

Week 2: Definitions and contexts. Today is an introduction to concepts: Development Environmentalism ‘Sustainable development’. Mags Liddy Department of Education and Professional Studies. Origins of environmentalism. Key words- preservation and conservation

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Week 2: Definitions and contexts

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  1. Week 2: Definitions and contexts • Today is an introduction to concepts: • Development • Environmentalism • ‘Sustainable development’ Mags Liddy Department of Education and Professional Studies

  2. Origins ofenvironmentalism • Key words- preservation and conservation • Industrial Revolution- 1750 onwards • Industrialisation- pollution, smoke • Urbanisation- sanitation, water issues • Romantic poets and anti-urbanisation • Fashion: Royal Society for Protection of Birds 1889 • Sierra Club 1892 by John Muir

  3. Global Development • After WW2: UN system and sister agencies • Concept of underdevelopment (1949) • 60s decade of development: growth plus change • Focus on industrialisation and progress • Promotion of education • Infrastructural projects to aid economy: dams, transport • Funding from World Bank through loans • Impact on environment and communities

  4. 1960s environmentalism • New social changes after WW2; affluence, fossil fuels, technology • Questioning fundamental beliefs • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 1962 • Highlighted affects of pesticides on insect and bird life • Question: can industrialisation and progress occur without environmental damage? • The Population Bomb 1968; Limits to Growth 1972; Small is Beautiful 1973

  5. Custodians of Earth The Blue Marble is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres

  6. 1970s • New strands to environmentalism • Environmental justice • Deep ecology • Anthropocentrism vs ecocentrism • Linked with spirituality and feminism • Activism and protests • UN meetings and treaties: 1972 Stockholm; 1992 Rio summit; 2009 Copenhagen • First Earth Day 1970- April 22nd

  7. 1980s Development questions • International debt crisis; Mexico defaulted 1982 • Famine: Ethiopia 1984 • HIV/ AIDS from mid 80s onwards • Environmental concerns • Bhopal chemical gas spill 1984 • Chernobyl nuclear accident 1986 • Ozone layer 1985

  8. Origins of… • UN World Commission on Environment and Development to find answer • Note use of ‘and’ not ‘or’ • Finding a compromise? • ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ • Our Common Future, 1987

  9. means…change • Politics and policy-making • International agreements and law • Technology to provide answers • Replace fossil fuel with.. • Cultural values and ethics • lifestyle change-more eco-centred

  10. Wangari Maathai: Nobel Peace Prize 2004 Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system... In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzS8H1Afk5I

  11. readings • Google • What do we mean by development? By Lalage Brown • E-resources • The roots of modern environmentalism by David Pepper (summary on web- JPE) • Green history [electronic resource] by Derek Wall • Books • Blessed unrest by Paul Hawken • Environmentalism in Ireland by Hilary Tovey • Contemporary environmental politics, by Stephens, Barry and Dobson

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