NRE 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United States Forest Service, Rachel Carson, Citizen Science
22 Jan 2019
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Lack of information: multiple and competing goals, scientific disagreement on cause-effect relationships, public is often isolated from decision makers. Inequity in political power (true to most issues) The human-environment relationship: humans are a part of nature, we do not dominate over it: chinese link animals to birth years, harmonize environment with way of life, greeks and. Romans, north american tribes, latin americans, africans all have cultural aspects relating to the environment: god allows faith in hard times, but can remove you from a connection to the environment, human idea to conquer, limitless resources. Two eras in the north american perspective: progressive era, stakeholder era (also called the broadening perspective era) Human dimensions of natural resources: abundance of natural resources (population of the us also small, technology and its experts will save us. Why doesn"t this work: human opinions matter, fact finding can lead us to a lot of different perspectives, this approach is dominating.
