GEOG 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Natural Resource Management, Robustness, Management System
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Command and control and the pathology of natural resource management (by. Pathology of natural resource management: essentially when there is a loss of system resilience due to control and command of systems. They are then faced with external effects --> e. g. natural disasters or human induced ones. Equilibrium resilience: one a system reaches an equilibrium or steady state. Ecosystem resilience: when a system encounters instabilities that flip the entire system into another form of behavior, we measure their resilience by seeing how the disturbance is accommodated in the system structure. Pathology occurs by loss of genetic variation which leads to genetic systems deteriorating --> it may also increase resiliency. Altering certain environmental conditions to make certain species less resilient to other invasive species. Controlling short-term wildfires would create even larger and more impactful wildfires (due to excess fuel) Monoculture farming practices would create lack of plant diversity. Controlling flow variation in lakes would mean less resiliency during storm events.
