Chapter 1

 Controlling and guiding interactions Prevention Conservation Preservation  Protecting and Enhancing Health and Welfare Humans Environment (why is this missing from the text?)

 Environment presents a risk to humans Natural Hazards  Society presents a risk to humans Environment as vector Pollution

 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?

 The Market  The State  Civil Society

 The Market Landowners RE Professionals Developers Financial Institutions  Their Motives Internal Short and Long Term (unenlightened or not?)

 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

 Civil Society Citizens Non-Profits / NGOs Property Owners “The Community”  Their Motives Internal or External Short and Long Term

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

 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.

 Optimists  Concerned Optimists  Hopeful Pessimists  Pessimists  The Self-Absorbed

 Frontier Economics  Environmental Protection  Resource Management  Eco-Development  Deep Ecology

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

 Environmental Management Technology and Strategies  Analytic Modeling and Planning Technologies  Fundamental Flaws (of perspective)

 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)