Managing Human-Environment Interactions

Managing Human-Environment InteractionsChapter 1ManagementControlling and guiding interactionsPreventionConservationPreservation

Protecting and Enhancing Health and WelfareHumansEnvironment (why is this missing from the text?)Catalysts for ManagementEnvironment presents a risk to humansNatural Hazards

Society presents a risk to humansEnvironment as vectorPollutionCatalysts for ManagementSociety exploits the environmentUnsustainable consumption

Pollution and consumption undermines productivity of natural systemsA matter of valuesOr how do we place value on certain systems?ParticipantsThe Market

The State

Civil SocietyParticipantsThe MarketLandownersRE ProfessionalsDevelopersFinancial Institutions

Their MotivesInternalShort and Long Term (unenlightened or not?)ParticipantsThe StateFederal / State / LocalRegional

Their MotivesMultiple Use / Stakeholders("the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man. Pinchot)Short and Long TermRegulation and IncentiveParticipantsCivil SocietyCitizensNon-Profits / NGOsProperty OwnersThe Community

Their MotivesInternal or ExternalShort and Long Term

Valuing the EnvironmentInstrumental Value

ExploitationEconomic valuationEnvironment as an inputTangible value to your well-beingValuing the EnvironmentIntrinsic ValueAestheticsIntangible value to your well-being

Inherent WorthThe value of the environment in-and-of itselfConsideration of the environment on an equal level with everything else.Human Perspectives on EMOptimists

Concerned Optimists

Hopeful Pessimists

Pessimists

The Self-AbsorbedMore PerspectivesFrontier Economics

Environmental Protection

Resource Management

Eco-Development

Deep EcologyThe Dimension of PerspectivesDominant ImperativeHuman/Nature RelationshipDominant ThreatsMain ThemesView on Property RightsWho Pays (for EM)Responsibility for Development and ManagementThe Dimension of PerspectivesEnvironmental Management Technology and Strategies

Analytic Modeling and Planning Technologies

Fundamental Flaws (of perspective)

Sustainable DevelopmentBruntland 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) EsEconomy, Environment, Equity (Engagement, Eternity)