NRE 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Natural Resource, Nominal Group Technique
22 Jan 2019
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Social carrying capacity: the level at which unacceptable or undesirable events begin to occur. Three examples using wildlife: cultural carrying capacity: management-desired level, a population size that relates to a manager"s desired level of activity, what managers find to be important. A top-down approach: wildlife acceptance capacity: population size based on a stakeholder group of greatest interest. In beaver example: stakeholder group is homeowner: wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacity: population size based on multiple stakeholder groups. In beaver example: stakeholder group is homeowners and wildlife: considers many stakeholder groups together to maximize satisfaction across stakeholders. Managers can see that if there is 30 miles of wash boarding, it is too much. What is an example where an n=1 is enough: one human eaten by a bear, one groundhog in a garden, one mouse in a house. How do managers deal with this: what"s the challenge in the adirondacks, degradation, more time for search and rescue, trail erosion, general crowdedness.
