chapter 1. controlling and guiding interactions prevention conservation preservation protecting...
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Management Controlling and guiding interactions
• Prevention• Conservation• Preservation
Protecting and Enhancing Health and Welfare• Humans• Environment (why is this missing from the
text?)
Catalysts for Management Environment presents a risk to
humans• Natural Hazards
Society presents a risk to humans• Environment as vector• Pollution
Catalysts for Management Society exploits the environment
• Unsustainable consumption
Pollution and consumption undermines productivity of natural systems• A matter of values• Or… how do we place “value” on certain
systems?
Participants The Market
• Landowners• RE Professionals• Developers• Financial Institutions
Their Motives• Internal• Short and Long Term (unenlightened or
not?)
Participants The State
• Federal / State / Local• Regional
Their Motives• Multiple Use / Stakeholders
("the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man.“ – Pinchot)
• Short and Long Term• Regulation and Incentive
Participants Civil Society
• Citizens• Non-Profits / NGOs• Property Owners• “The Community”
Their Motives• Internal or External• Short and Long Term
Valuing the Environment Instrumental Value
• “Exploitation”• Economic valuation• Environment as an input• Tangible value to your well-being
Valuing the Environment Intrinsic Value
• Aesthetics• Intangible value to your well-being
Inherent Worth• The value of the environment in-and-of
itself• Consideration of the environment on an
equal level with everything else.
Human Perspectives on EM Optimists
Concerned Optimists
Hopeful Pessimists
Pessimists
The Self-Absorbed
More Perspectives Frontier Economics
Environmental Protection
Resource Management
Eco-Development
Deep Ecology
The Dimension of Perspectives
Dominant Imperative Human/Nature Relationship Dominant Threats Main Themes View on Property Rights Who Pays (for EM) Responsibility for Development and
Management
The Dimension of Perspectives
Environmental Management Technology and Strategies
Analytic Modeling and Planning Technologies
Fundamental Flaws (of perspective)
Sustainable Development Bruntland Commission (1989)
• “…paths of economic, social, environmental, and political progress that aim to meet the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”
The Three (or five) “E”s• Economy, Environment, Equity
(Engagement, Eternity)