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A Method to the Madness: Understanding the Politics of Irrigation in the Andes. Paul Gelles, Water and Power in Highland Peru: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development is an interesting take on the evolution and adaptation of the indigenous traditions surrounding irrigation water in the Colca valley of Peru. Gelles describes how traditional systems of irrigation coexist and compete along modern, government-sponsored models. The main focus is on how “competing structures of power and…

This article, Forget Shorter Showers by Derrick Jensen shows how humans are gullible on personal consumption. For instance, how saving water in order to not pollute the environment is extremely important. Or to even use not as much waterer, energy, and waste to keep the environment “simply”. Jensen continues to explain how individuals are being led into believing that their personal consumption is immensely damaging to the environment. On the contrary, Jensen believes that is completely wrong…

Price skimming, also known as market skimming, is a product pricing strategy where then firm charges a high initial price when introducing a product. With time, as the demand of customers is satisfied, the firm lowers its price a bit attracting those who are more price sensitive. This strategy is useful when there are enough customers who are willing to buy the product at a high price, when the high price keeps competitors from entering the market, lowering the price won’t have a huge impact on…

The primary distinguishing factor between Penrose’s and Coase’s theories is the idea of fluidity – Coase believes the firm to be a static body with an optimum size, whereas Penrose views the firm as a dynamic entity that has no size limit, unless it fails to exploit its resources, at which point the firm becomes stagnant. Whilst Penrose defines the firm as an "autonomous administrative planning unit”, which is bounded by its “area of authoritative communication”, Coase perceives the firm as a…

Renowned American author H. P. Lovecraft once wrote, “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent”. Presently, the earth is estimated to be around 70% water, yet humanity has only explored less than 5% of the oceans. Imagine what we could learn from the unknowns of the most treacherous depths, and to what possibilities could we utilize all the information gathered? One anomaly quite intriguing is the diverse sea-life, which proceeds to prosper by…

Ancilla Flemens Professor Christina Holmes WGSS 362A: Feminist Approaches to Environmentalism Friday, November 15, 2017 Finding Environmental Justice in Our Skin Care Routines “Environmental justice, environmental health, climate change, plastic pollution, and other movements stress that the human is “trans-corporeal,” inseparable from substances and materials that cross through bodies and environments. Thinking of oneself as utterly exposed to toxins and climates makes environmentalism…

The principle of competitive exclusion, also known as Gause’s principle, tells us that it is impossible for any two organisms to occupy the same niche without one of them going extinct (Hardin 1960; Gause 1934). This principle is easy to see in frugivores, grainivores, and carnivores that use discrete food packets, such as an insect or seed (Hanley 1982). MacArthur (1958) clearly demonstrated that each species is uniquely adapted to their niche and their competitive advantage prevents niche…

Imagine being stuck in the Outback for almost three months with limited food and water in temperatures of over 100 degrees fahrenheit. With deadly and dangerous scenarios like that it would be nearly impossible to survive. Well, Ricky Megee went through exactly that when he was in Australia for a trip in 2006. He was 35 years old when he went through the hardest task in his life. Using intelligence and determination, Ricky Megee survived through one of the hardest things a person could go…

To determine how two different weed species, A. Pinnata and N. Alba, and their accompanying biotic and abiotic factors live in the fresh water eco-system that has been studied, Jake’s Hole. The investigation that was conducted comprised of taking different samples of data over four weeks from the same four sections of the dam, out of a 1m x 1m square. The final results show that A. Pinnata is predominantly the weed species that inhabits the eco-system compared to N. Alba, where there is very…

cost about a billion in damage to the overall area Toowoomba and areas nearby (316). Australia went from a drought that was deadly to a flood that killed not only a mother and son but also others. Robin Kundis Craig, the author of the article “Water Supply, Desalination, Climate Change, and Energy Policy”, she describes, “Various regions in Australia have been suffering from severe drought and water shortages in the twenty-first century, prompting Perth, in Western Australia, to turn to…