ENVIRSC 2EI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neoliberalism, Ecosystem Approach, Kyoto Protocol
16 Oct 2018
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Long-term view (more than 15 years: requires long period of time to create change, eutrophication, lake erie, land use. Short-term view: prevents long term commitment and funds, ex: an election taking place = short term, the process in which it takes a government party to input a regulation. Social learning: designed to educate individuals and organizations, both single and double loop learning should be used. Single-loop learning: ensure match between intent and outcome. Improvement within an existing system that rests on unchallenged assumptions that are implicit and unchallenged. Ingenuity gap: refers to the mismatch between the supply of ideas needed to fix environmental problems and the availability of such ideas. Systems and ecosystem perspective: ecosystems consist of communities of abiotic and biotic elements interacting with each other, their management requires a system or holistic perspective. Incorporates the key ideas that humans are a part of nature rather than separate from it, interrelationships must be emphasized and critical thresholds exist.
