NRE 3000 Lecture 9: Human Dimensions Lec 9

• School: UConn
• Department: Natural Resources and the Environment
• Course: NRE 3000
• Professor: Anita Morzillo

Document Summary

Hardin (1968: this paper is a classic, and you have probably have heard its title in a catch phrase. What is the situation described in this paper? (hint: remember that the situation is often written as a problem statement: where resources are shared, they tend to be destroyed through the pursuit of personal gain. Example 1: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=xajdxo_j2my (check out the therapeutic music: symbiosis is an ecological term that describes interactions between different biological species. What does the plant provide as an incentive to that animal for protection: ants, and the plant continues to feed the ants, but wait something is eating the plant. Why so: the caterpillar bribes the ant with sugar, and it works. Example 3: now we add people to an environmental system. This set of five short videos focuses on sharks. Watch them in order: shark and turtle http://www. pbslearningmedia. org/resource/nat08. living. eco. ecos. turtle/nature-the- secret-worldof-sharks-and-rays-shark-and-turtle/