GEOG 1220 Lecture Notes - Overdraft, Hydrosphere

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1220
• Professor: Richard Kuhn

Document Summary

Geography part ii: professor kuhn: environmental management, carrying capacity: species that a given habitat can support over a given period of time, cultural carrying capacity prevailing technology. It implies ecological, technological, social and political components. : max number of people an area can support given the: overpopulation: Setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a: millennium development goals: deadline of 2015. Develop a global partnership for development: functional definition of resources: the action we take on a resource. Renewable (e. g. fish, trees) - key is rate of extraction relative to rate of regeneration (i. e. can become stock resource: garret hardin: 1968: tragedy of the commons . Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. When an individual makes use of a non-private resource, she/he will overuse the resource because she/he receives all the benefits of additional use, but only a small part of the drawbacks.