ESPM 50AC - Midterm 1 Questions & Answers Rated 100%
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1. Site vs. Situation Site:
-Physical location
-Way of understanding/seeing a place in terms of - environmental
qualities
Situation:
-Socioeconomic benefits/advantages of a place (relative to other places)
ex. NO has a great situation but a bad site
(Site: low lying, alluvial soils in the floodplain, Situation: NO's valuable
geopolitical & military position at the mouth of the Mississippi river)
2. Southeaste -Alluvial soils 'recharged' in annual floods of the Mississippi
rn -NO has mostly freshwater as well as saltwater wetlands (freshwater
Louisiana wetlands can't tolerate long-term inundation by saltwater)
Wetland -Wetlands absorb storm surge
-in NO itself, everything except the natural levees would have been
wetlands (more conservation would have meant less impact)
3. Levees - Levees are a way to reconcile the disparity between site & situation"
-Kelman: "...Katrina demonstrated, it's impossible to separate social and
environ- mental issues in this city."
2 Kinds: Natural & Artificial
-Natural: created by flooding of the river and soil being deposited
-Artificial: first developed with sugar plantations upstream; used to divert
water past NO; this eliminated it's ability to recharge & reduced it's capacity
to store water
4. Segregation: (Kelman)
En-
vironmental &
Social
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, ESPM 50AC - Midterm 1 Questions & Answers Rated 100%
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Environmental
segregation:
-Pushing nature outside
of the levees of the city
’completed by building
over the wetlands
(Lakeview & the Lower
Ninth Ward)
-Nature became harder to
control (led to more
suttering)
Social segregation:
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, ESPM 50AC - Midterm 1 Questions & Answers Rated 100%
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-Blacks ended up in areas of lower ground ’vulnerable to disaster,
exposed to harmful chemicals
-Whites ended up in areas of higher ground ’safe, protected
5. Racial/ -"a raciallized geography of ditterential risk"
Historical -Lousy site, great situation (used levees to reconcile)
Geography of -Historic geography: transformed river with sugar industry (development
New Orleans of lev- ees)
& -Jim Crow laws (high housing prices, deed covenants, red lining, failure to
S.E. Louisiana lend to businesses)
-Treme, lower 9th Ward = primarily poor & black
-Loss of wetlands = key to vulnerability
-20 ft storm surge, 53 levee break, toxic gumbo, wetland saltwater
inundation, infrastructure damage (transportation, housing, services,
6. Environment industry)
al Impact of -Inundation of business & residential areas
Hurricane -Freshwater wetlands inundated & turned into year round deep wetlands
Katrina
-"Historic Amnesia" ’Dozens of storms had passed through safely in
7. Causes of last 100 years; funds diverted to improving the port over wetland
Hurri- cane restoration to get a return on investment so they were unprepared
Katrina Dis-
aster
8. Worster's Analyti- Nature/Society/Culture:
cal -Nature = non-human part of the world
Framework -Society = infrastructure, economy, and social institutions in the human
world
-Culture = learned behaviors that influence human perception, argued that
modes of production changed the landscape
9. Modes of Produc- - A form of social organization (i.e. Subsistence agriculture/hunter-
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Correct!!!
1. Site vs. Situation Site:
-Physical location
-Way of understanding/seeing a place in terms of - environmental
qualities
Situation:
-Socioeconomic benefits/advantages of a place (relative to other places)
ex. NO has a great situation but a bad site
(Site: low lying, alluvial soils in the floodplain, Situation: NO's valuable
geopolitical & military position at the mouth of the Mississippi river)
2. Southeaste -Alluvial soils 'recharged' in annual floods of the Mississippi
rn -NO has mostly freshwater as well as saltwater wetlands (freshwater
Louisiana wetlands can't tolerate long-term inundation by saltwater)
Wetland -Wetlands absorb storm surge
-in NO itself, everything except the natural levees would have been
wetlands (more conservation would have meant less impact)
3. Levees - Levees are a way to reconcile the disparity between site & situation"
-Kelman: "...Katrina demonstrated, it's impossible to separate social and
environ- mental issues in this city."
2 Kinds: Natural & Artificial
-Natural: created by flooding of the river and soil being deposited
-Artificial: first developed with sugar plantations upstream; used to divert
water past NO; this eliminated it's ability to recharge & reduced it's capacity
to store water
4. Segregation: (Kelman)
En-
vironmental &
Social
1/
17
, ESPM 50AC - Midterm 1 Questions & Answers Rated 100%
Correct!!!
Environmental
segregation:
-Pushing nature outside
of the levees of the city
’completed by building
over the wetlands
(Lakeview & the Lower
Ninth Ward)
-Nature became harder to
control (led to more
suttering)
Social segregation:
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17
, ESPM 50AC - Midterm 1 Questions & Answers Rated 100%
Correct!!!
-Blacks ended up in areas of lower ground ’vulnerable to disaster,
exposed to harmful chemicals
-Whites ended up in areas of higher ground ’safe, protected
5. Racial/ -"a raciallized geography of ditterential risk"
Historical -Lousy site, great situation (used levees to reconcile)
Geography of -Historic geography: transformed river with sugar industry (development
New Orleans of lev- ees)
& -Jim Crow laws (high housing prices, deed covenants, red lining, failure to
S.E. Louisiana lend to businesses)
-Treme, lower 9th Ward = primarily poor & black
-Loss of wetlands = key to vulnerability
-20 ft storm surge, 53 levee break, toxic gumbo, wetland saltwater
inundation, infrastructure damage (transportation, housing, services,
6. Environment industry)
al Impact of -Inundation of business & residential areas
Hurricane -Freshwater wetlands inundated & turned into year round deep wetlands
Katrina
-"Historic Amnesia" ’Dozens of storms had passed through safely in
7. Causes of last 100 years; funds diverted to improving the port over wetland
Hurri- cane restoration to get a return on investment so they were unprepared
Katrina Dis-
aster
8. Worster's Analyti- Nature/Society/Culture:
cal -Nature = non-human part of the world
Framework -Society = infrastructure, economy, and social institutions in the human
world
-Culture = learned behaviors that influence human perception, argued that
modes of production changed the landscape
9. Modes of Produc- - A form of social organization (i.e. Subsistence agriculture/hunter-
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