Managing Human-Environment Interactions

Chapter 1

Management Controlling and guiding interactions

• Prevention• Conservation• Preservation

Protecting and Enhancing Health and Welfare• Humans• Environment (why is this missing from the

text?)

Catalysts for Management Environment presents a risk to

humans• Natural Hazards

Society presents a risk to humans• Environment as vector• Pollution

Catalysts for Management Society exploits the environment

• Unsustainable consumption

Pollution and consumption undermines productivity of natural systems• A matter of values• Or… how do we place “value” on certain

systems?

Participants The Market

The State

Civil Society

Participants The Market

• Landowners• RE Professionals• Developers• Financial Institutions

Their Motives• Internal• Short and Long Term (unenlightened or

not?)

Participants The State

• Federal / State / Local• Regional

Their Motives• Multiple Use / Stakeholders

("the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man.“ – Pinchot)

• Short and Long Term• Regulation and Incentive

Participants Civil Society

• Citizens• Non-Profits / NGOs• Property Owners• “The Community”

Their Motives• Internal or External• Short and Long Term

Valuing the Environment Instrumental Value

• “Exploitation”• Economic valuation• Environment as an input• Tangible value to your well-being

Valuing the Environment Intrinsic Value

• Aesthetics• Intangible value to your well-being

Inherent Worth• The value of the environment in-and-of

itself• Consideration of the environment on an

equal level with everything else.

Human Perspectives on EM Optimists

Concerned Optimists

Hopeful Pessimists

Pessimists

The Self-Absorbed

More Perspectives Frontier Economics

Environmental Protection

Resource Management

Eco-Development

Deep Ecology

The Dimension of Perspectives

Dominant Imperative Human/Nature Relationship Dominant Threats Main Themes View on Property Rights Who Pays (for EM) Responsibility for Development and

Management

The Dimension of Perspectives

Environmental Management Technology and Strategies

Analytic Modeling and Planning Technologies

Fundamental Flaws (of perspective)

Sustainable Development Bruntland Commission (1989)

• “…paths of economic, social, environmental, and political progress that aim to meet the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”

The Three (or five) “E”s• Economy, Environment, Equity

(Engagement, Eternity)