GEOG 3ER3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conservation Movement

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 3ER3
• Professor: Maureen Padden

Document Summary

Policy targets can be set by other approaches. Maximum concentration of toxic substance set by its effect on human health. Not always efficient -> goal decided ahead of time. All efficient policies are cost effective but not all cost effective policies are efficient. No attempt to convert everything into $ Comprehensive and systematic process for identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the environmental effects of a proposed project. Future generations should be left no worse off than the current generations. Place everyone in a veil of ignorance" and ask them to choose distribution of resources. Assume you don"t know your eventual generational position. Everyone meet without knowing what generation you will be in.