{"id":851,"date":"2026-07-15T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/?p=851"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:28:14","slug":"learning-through-drought-going-beyond-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/2026\/07\/15\/learning-through-drought-going-beyond-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Through Drought: Going Beyond The Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Understanding Lakes Shortages<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cougar Creek field trip helped me learn a significant amount about water scarcity in our lakes, its underlying causes, and its impact on the environment and wildlife. Guest speaker Deborah Jones provided valuable background information on Surrey\u2019s historical landscape and discussed how sewage being discharged into local lakes causes severe harm to aquatic life. Throughout our walk, we learned how human interference\u2014such as the construction of buildings, roads, and pavement\u2014blocks various creeks, leading to droughts and environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/files\/2026\/07\/ED9B7109-AA50-44D3-84AF-9D19D6B35E46_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This directly connects to our course reading, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Green Culture Green Criminology&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Avi Brisman and Nigel South, which discusses how human activity and interference cause environmental harm and species decline driven by profit and consumerism. Seeing the effects of the drought at Cougar Creek firsthand tremendously helped me understand these factors, as the heavily reduced and blocked water flow has caused populations of species like ducks and salmon to decline. Another strong parallel can be drawn to the reading, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;From men\u2019s violence to an ethic of care: Ecofeminist contributions to green criminology&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Stephen R. Burrell and Cassie Pedersen. They emphasize male dominance over ecosystems, noting that traditional masculinity views ecology as a resource to conquer for human benefit instead of an environment to sustain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/files\/2026\/07\/E5160136-CDD6-489B-A638-3EF67F6C668D_1_105_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Combining the field trip with our gardening project, I believe I have gained a tremendous amount of knowledge regarding environmental harm, sustainability, and the factors contributing to climate change. Although I was previously unfamiliar with terms like &#8220;greenwashing&#8221; and &#8220;ecocide,&#8221; learning throughout the semester and working on our project helped me make numerous connections to the factors driving environmental harm and population decline. Ultimately, studying green criminology has helped me understand that nurturing and protecting our environment requires a collective, global effort rather than focusing on just one isolated area.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Lakes Shortages The Cougar Creek field trip helped me learn a significant amount about water scarcity in our lakes, its underlying causes, and its impact on the environment and wildlife. Guest speaker Deborah Jones provided valuable background information on Surrey\u2019s historical landscape and discussed how sewage being discharged into local lakes causes severe harm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1513,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-published"],"splot_meta":{"author":"Nathan","license":"","footer":"This Blog Was Editted Using Grammarly AI Brisman, A., & South, N. (2018). Green cultural criminology. In Routledge handbook of critical criminology (pp. 132-142). Routledge. Burrell, S. R., & Pedersen, C. (2025). From men's violence to an ethic of care: Ecofeminist contributions to green criminology. Journal of Criminology, 58(3), 372-388."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/green-criminology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}