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Managing Human-Environment Interactions

Managing Human-Environment Interactions. Chapter 1. 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.

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Managing Human-Environment Interactions

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  1. Managing Human-Environment Interactions Chapter 1

  2. Management • Controlling and guiding interactions • Prevention • Conservation • Preservation • Protecting and Enhancing Health and Welfare • Humans • Environment (why is this missing from the text?)

  3. Catalysts for Management • Environment presents a risk to humans • Natural Hazards • Society presents a risk to humans • Environment as vector • Pollution

  4. 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?

  5. Participants The Market The State Civil Society

  6. Participants • The Market • Landowners • RE Professionals • Developers • Financial Institutions • Their Motives • Internal • Short and Long Term (unenlightened or not?)

  7. 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

  8. Participants • Civil Society • Citizens • Non-Profits / NGOs • Property Owners • “The Community” • Their Motives • Internal or External • Short and Long Term

  9. Valuing the Environment • Instrumental Value • “Exploitation” • Economic valuation • Environment as an input • Tangible value to your well-being

  10. 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.

  11. Human Perspectives on EM Optimists Concerned Optimists Hopeful Pessimists Pessimists The Self-Absorbed

  12. More Perspectives Frontier Economics Environmental Protection Resource Management Eco-Development Deep Ecology

  13. 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

  14. The Dimension of Perspectives Environmental Management Technology and Strategies Analytic Modeling and Planning Technologies Fundamental Flaws (of perspective)

  15. 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)

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