Neil Smith’s The Production of Nature from Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space (1987) draws on the work of Karl Marx to explore how the structure of capitalism has affected society’s relationship with the natural world as factor of production. Smith argues that our conceptions about nature as being separate from society are what enable us to exploit it. In order to explain this concept Smith divides nature into first nature and second nature. First nature, being the pristine ideal that many identify as the natural world, and second nature, that which is the product of human labor and often identified as an object of society, even though its origins are from the earth. Our inability to protect natural areas that are
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Concepts of social justice are more frequently applied to natural systems in political ecology (Robbins 2012). Perspectives on wetlands in particular have been instrumental in shaping Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge and debates over wetland policy illustrate the difficulties when attempting to quantify or monetize ecosystems (Robertson and Wainwright 2013). The political debate about how we value systems that provide ecosystem services to humans and animals, but provide some other quality to life that is particularly difficult to quantify, a and are rooted in …show more content…
Explanation of the physical geography of the basin is important because it is the root cause of many of the Klamath’s management issues.
Chapter One: I will have a chapter dedicated solely to the history of the refuges borrowing from Doug Foster (2008; 2002), Stephen Most (2002), Robert Wilson (2010) as well as a number of documents I have discovered from the Oregon Historical Society. The history of the basin is extremely vital to understanding the current conflicts in the basin since all of the major actors have remained more or less consistent since their founding.
Chapter Two: I will have a chapter dedicated to recent developments in the basin including a more careful review of the conservation plan, as well as other important policy documents that effect management. My own observations about the refuges will be included in this section, as well as maps that demonstrate some of the changes that have occurred produced by the Klamath Basin Decision Support System and other data
Concepts of social justice are more frequently applied to natural systems in political ecology (Robbins 2012). Perspectives on wetlands in particular have been instrumental in shaping Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge and debates over wetland policy illustrate the difficulties when attempting to quantify or monetize ecosystems (Robertson and Wainwright 2013). The political debate about how we value systems that provide ecosystem services to humans and animals, but provide some other quality to life that is particularly difficult to quantify, a and are rooted in …show more content…
Explanation of the physical geography of the basin is important because it is the root cause of many of the Klamath’s management issues.
Chapter One: I will have a chapter dedicated solely to the history of the refuges borrowing from Doug Foster (2008; 2002), Stephen Most (2002), Robert Wilson (2010) as well as a number of documents I have discovered from the Oregon Historical Society. The history of the basin is extremely vital to understanding the current conflicts in the basin since all of the major actors have remained more or less consistent since their founding.
Chapter Two: I will have a chapter dedicated to recent developments in the basin including a more careful review of the conservation plan, as well as other important policy documents that effect management. My own observations about the refuges will be included in this section, as well as maps that demonstrate some of the changes that have occurred produced by the Klamath Basin Decision Support System and other data