ENVR 203 Lecture Notes - Adaptive Management, Precautionary Principle, Land Ethic

• School: McGill University
• Department: Environment
• Course: ENVR 203
• Professor: David Goodin

Document Summary

Culture is shaped by adaptation to the land, leading to regional ethics. Tek is tested by natural selection throughout time. Leopold trusts tek because it survived through history. Extending ethics to land is an evolutionary possibility and ecological necessity . Leopold"s land ethic is relational- land and people change over time. Believes that we need to co-evolve values with practices. We need to create the conditions for environmental values to develop. Discusses the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic value. Short-term vision may blind us to the long-term.