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Oregon Man Arrested for Collecting Rainwater

This video discusses the case of an Oregon man who was arrested for collecting rainwater. Explore the debate on whether individuals should have the right to collect rainwater or if it should be controlled by the state. Learn about sustainable development, cultural ecology, and the pillars of environmental, economy, and society. Discover the concepts of environmental determinism and possibilism and their impact on human-environment relationships.

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Oregon Man Arrested for Collecting Rainwater

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  1. Oregon Man Arrested for Collecting Rainwater • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fo43gQr2Ww#t=68 • http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=nestle+and+controlling+public+water+supply&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=2B585D6C41FD13CCEA412B585D6C41FD13CCEA41

  2. Based on your homework, please answer the following questions… • What is sustainable development? • What is cultural ecology? • Based on the video from yesterday, do you believe that a person has the right to collect rain water for his/her own use or should it be controlled by the state?

  3. Sustainability and Resources • Environmental Pillar – conservation and preservation • What is the difference? • Wise usage vs non-usage • Economy Pillar – greater the supply, lower the price, higher the demand, higher the price (EX?) • Society Pillar

  4. Environmental Determinism Possibilism Cultural Ecology - geographic study of human-environment relationships

  5. Environmental Determinism • Goes back to Aristotle – related traits of people to climate • Human behavior is strongly affected by physical environment • Climate is critical factor in how humans behave • “ideal” climate is in the eye of the beholder

  6. Possibilism • Natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture • BUT human cultures frequently push the boundaries of what is “environmentally possible” through advances in technology

  7. Focuses on how and why humans have altered environment and on sustainability of their practices Research Today

  8. Which one is environmental determinism, which one is possibilism? • The highlands environment of western China encouraged the development of a herding culture: • People migrated to the desert southwest in post WWII period in the United States with the help of technological advancement of air conditioning:

  9. 2005 Hurricane Katrina • How is this disaster an example of how physical geography & human geography intersect?

  10. New Orleans Before Katrina

  11. New Orleans after Katrina 2005

  12. Physical Geography & Katrina • Explains process by which hurricanes form in Atlantic during late summer & autumn and gather strength over warm waters of Gulf of Mexico • When it passes over land it can generate powerful storm surge that floods low-lying areas.

  13. Why did Katrina cause such massive damage? • Made landfall near heavily populated areas like Biloxi & Gulfport, Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana

  14. Weren’t these low-lying cities protected? • Government agencies had constructed a complex system of levees, dikes, seawalls, canals and pumps • Katrina proved humans are not able to control and tame all forces of nature

  15. What questions do these maps suggest?

  16. Concerns with uneven impact of destruction • Victims primarily poor, African American, old • Lived in lowest-lying areas most vulnerable to flooding • Many lacked transportation, money, & info that would have enabled them to evacuate in advance

  17. Concerns with uneven impact of destruction • Wealthy portions & tourist attractions like French Quarter were spared the worst because located on slightly higher ground • Slow & incompetent response by local, state, & federal emergency teams was blamed on victims’ lack of voice in political, economic, and social life of New Orleans

  18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxbprYyjyyU

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