Environment and Society


EXERCISES

1. Describe in your own words what you understand by the term ‘ecology’.

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2. Why is ecology not limited only to the forces of nature?

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3. Describe the two-way process by which ‘social environments’ emerge.

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4. Why and how does social organisation shape the relationship between the environment and society?

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5. Why is environmental management a complex and huge task for society?

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6. What are some of the important forms of pollution-related environmental

hazards?

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7. What are the major environmental issues associated with resource

depletion?

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8. Explain why environmental problems are simultaneously social problems.

9. What is meant by social ecology?

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10. Describe some environment related conflicts that you know of or have read

about. (Other than the examples in the text.)

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