GEOG 1972 Study Guide - Final Guide: Anthropocentrism, Scientific Management, Cornucopian
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Techno-optimism: humans have dominated and can/should shape nature - a (cid:862)te(cid:272)h(cid:374)o- opti(cid:373)isti(cid:272)(cid:863) or (cid:862)(cid:272)or(cid:374)u(cid:272)opia(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:448)ie(cid:449): te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455) a(cid:374)d hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) i(cid:374)ge(cid:374)uit(cid:455) tru(cid:373)ps li(cid:373)its. Dominant social paradigm vs. new ecological paradigm. Human ingenuity will ensure that we do not make the earth unlivable. Despite our special abilities, humans are still subject to the laws of nature. The balance of nature is very delicate and easily upset. Purposeful: changes made with the goal of that change to accomplish a social goal (e. g. , forest cleared for cropping) Inadvertent: results of the purposeful change were not sought (may be positive. Threshold of some impacts, harm (health, etc. ) Open access resource: resource with no effective exclusion of any would-be user. Tragedy of the commons: the inevitable degradation of resources with open access or. Institutions: rules and norms governing collective action held in common, due to fundamental human behavioral tendencies, often argued in terms of the economic and psychological concept of game theory.
