SOCI 3250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Trout Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited, Scenic America
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Gould, k. alan, & lewis, t. l. (2009). Focus reducing demand & increasing supply of game animals. Key components: scientific management of ecosystems can ensure stable populations of wildlife, wildlife population can be seen as a crop. Advocated for preservation of wilderness as both a natural & spiritual resource. Focuses on linking human health & survival to environmental: natural systems as self-creating evolutionary wholes, cannot reduce to sum of parts (not a machine, human actions impair ability of natural. Soci 3250 protest and social movements conditions (nature is a web of interdependent relationships: ethical human actions necessarily promote action toward all life on earth, proper use of natural sciences can guide. Seeks the restoration of fully functioning ecosystems, in which evolution of life, unaffected by human actions, can continue. Sees environmental problems as creations of human social order; focuses on the social creation & resolution of environmental problems. Focused on relationship between environmental pollution & human health.