TERMS & Definitions
The goal of a conflict assessment is to...
Systematically wade through complexity to create in-depth understanding
A diagram or drawing that shows how different issues or factors are related to the bigger problem.
Concept Map
What is a flood buyout?
Government purchases flood-risk or damaged property to get people out of the floodplain.
In their 2003 article, Nie creates a list of these things that help us understand what an environmental conflict is really about
Drivers
An approach to conservation based on the belief that ecosystems function best when isolated from humans.
Fortress Conservation
A phrase that conservationists use to described a complex, multi-faceted issue
Wicked Problems
Name the three components of any conflict
Actor, Incompatibility and Action
A type of bias common in conflict and climate change research
In Dr. Walker's article on buyouts, why is NYC funding buyouts in rural New York State?
Because they want to reduce point source pollution to their drinking water
Approach to conservation that puts decision-making of natural resources in the hands of local people and embraces sustainable use
Community-based conservation
Comprises the capabilities, assets and activities required for a means of living. It is more than economic and often tied to environment.
Livelihood
A tool for showing the history and connections between actors or stakeholder group in a conflict
Relationship Map
Oil and Gas industries can make rural communities _____ to shocks of a bust and boom economy.
Vulnerable
In the Daily podcast about coal minors on strike in Alabama, the journalists make the case that the minors have been left behind by who?
Both Democrats and Republicans
The field of HDNR/or environmental social science is based on what assumption?
That ecological and social systems interact
AND
Understanding those interactions are key to securing the well-being of people and the environment.
A term to describe the role that climate change plays, in influencing conflict
Threat Multiplier
The two types of pathways that researchers use to explain the relationship between climate change and conflict. One is more accurate than the other.
Indirect and Direct
Water is vulnerable to conflict for this reason...
Multi objective management OR Spatial boundary mismatch
The Radiolab podcast "Rhino Hunter" articulates two conflicting perspectives on the acceptability of trophy hunting. What are they?
Trophy hunting is an effective strategy for conservation
Trophy hunting is cruel and unethical treatment of wildlife.
What world wide conservation trend may see an increase in environmental conflict over livelihoods?
Increase in #/size of protected areas
Type of equity pathways that references the historical and systemic issues that influence a conflict
Structural Equity/Justice
What do we use conceptual frameworks for?
Organize the chaosguide our analysis pf a complex situation
Name 4 types of displacement associated with the creation of protected areas
Physical, political, socio-economic, cultural
At the first National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991, delegates adopted what?
The principles of environmental justice
Name 2 of the 3 criteria needed for achieving environmental justice
1) Representation of vulnerable groups in planning and processes,
2) Priority setting and framing that recognizing needs of vulnerable groups
3) Impacts of human-environment interactions enhance freedoms and assets of vulnerable groups