HGP250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Policy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Human Geography and Planning
• Course: HGP250
• Professor: Kurt Borth

Document Summary

Using environmental policy instruments to mange ocean sheries. In the past, most sheries and policies were set especially in teh western world that one thing there was driving most of teh environmental policy: economic reality. People wanted to make more products and more resources and more bu alos and more pigeons and sh that dictated the policy that was set. Integrated management principle takes the 3 principle s of sustainability social-cultural, economic and the natural environment and develops policy based on those realities. Long term sustainability is taken care of. Wherever positive outcomes, if community is reliant on sher you nee dto take care of the long term sustainability of shery so the community can have long term sustanibility too. Then in 1992, the unthinkable happened (ban) What had once been the most abundant cod population had been exhausted. Cod was teh reason people migrated form europe to canda. Fishing ban made people come to the streets.