FOR302H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sport Utility Vehicle, Management System, Carbon Sink

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22 Feb 2017
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Lecture 1: course introduction & global forest governance challenges. Human beings = active agent interacting with environment. Our values, our understanding of forest is important for how we deal with environmental resources. What are values: set of beliefs that guide our actions, responses, the way we shape institutions, society is not equal. Some societies are more prominent than others. May be due to how many resources they have. Whose needs get primacy: feeding suv with biofuels while children starve, global north vs. Looking at problems from other perspectives: seeing problems from perspective of the marginalized, ex: deforestation in brazil. Some people can say it is a result of all of these: rising populations, more mining, cattle ranches. But not just local problems: cattle ranches are exporting meat to other places in world. Problems can not only be fixed through technical approaches only: walkerton: But digging deep into problem, it"s not just that:

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