Essays on Political Ecology

Karen and Arjun understand that political ecology studies the complex relationships that exist between political, economic and social factors which influence environmental issues and changes. Therefore, political ecology majorly politicizes environmental issues and phenomena to bring about the aspect of costing and its benefits and how these affect environmental changes distribution. This field as received numerous contributions from various scholars who believe that the accumulation of resources or wealth is generally influenced by the interplay of economic exchanges and their implication on the environment. According to Karen Bakker in “Golden Road to Riches” she believes that the economic geography ...

Politics of nature

There is a new tendency nowadays. Practically each person is eager to lead such a lifestyle that is closer to nature. We try to use natural material for our needs, spend more time in the open air, eat products which don`t contain GMO, replace some habitual things with the help of some new environmentally benign. We are accustomed to a cleaner technology of making the products. We call ourselves «new generation that is in harmony with the natural surrounding». Do we really know what the real nature is? There will be a constant barrier between the humanity and ...

Lenovo Group Limited is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops personal computers, servers and IT software. Amid the global dotcom bubble in the 2000s, Lenovo began to pump resources into sectors such as mobile phones, internet-related business and information technology services. The technology joy ride was short-lived as competition at home grew ferociously with the mainland's entry into the World Trade Organization, eating into Lenovo’s bottom line. After this ill-fated strategy of diversification and a focus on the domestic market between 2001 and 2003, Lenovo chairman Yang Yuanqing said in an interview with the South China Morning ...

Introduction

Abraham Lincoln once stated that whoever eats sausage and abides the law should avoid seeing how the two was made. Similarly, the same principle can be applied to several scientific principles that constitute environmental debates on policy today. The discussion encompasses the need to see the evolution of environmental knowledge being part of political conundrums that deserves a more substantial debate. It is not too late yet in re-evaluating the political basis of environmental policies and explanations pertaining to the possible elimination of harmful practices that have severe environmental implications towards preservation and protection of natural resources. The scientific community ...