1. The Environment

2. The Environment
Management
Brief History
The Future

3. Managing the Environment

4. Managing the Environment
Transnational Issue
Multifaceted
Air, land, sea
Flora, fauna
Economic, cultural factors

5. Managing the Environment (cont.)
The collective good
Free riders tragedy of the commons
Space junk
Tuna
Sustainable development, sustainability

6. Which has a greater environmental impact?
a) Eating meat
b) Driving your car

7. Livestock industry biggest carbon contributor Eating 1 lb. beef
= More than transportation or industry
Eating 1 lb. beef
Driving 45 miles
Eating 1 lb. pasta
Driving < 1 mile

8. Siamese Rosewood Tree: Transnational Issue
Economic:
Laos is poor
Corruption
Chinese demand
Env.:
Extinction
IL:
Illegal cutting across borders
Req. cooperation

9. Brief History of Environmental Interest

10. Brief History Global interest only recent Post-materialism NGOs IGOs
MNCs

11. Brief History: NGOs World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (1960) Earth Day (1970)
 Greenpeace (1971)
 EarthWatch Institute (1971)

12. Do you turn off the water while brushing your teeth?

13. Tap runs ~2.5 gal/minute
Same as drinking liter bottles of soda / week
What water is better: Bottled or tap?
EPA testing
33% of bottled water w/ contaminants

14. Brief History: IGOs UN Environment Programme (UNEP) UN Conventions
Stockholm Conference (1972)
Rio + 20 (2012)
Sustainable development goals
UN Conventions
Kyoto Protocol (1997)
Minamata (2013)
Paris Agreement (2016)
Link

15. Sustainable Development
Brief History: IGOs
World Bank
Late 1980s/ early 1990s
Millennium Development Goals
Comprehensive Wealth Accounting
Economic Capital
Human Capital
Natural Capital
Sustainable Development

16. How many paper towels do you use to dry your hands?

17. Brief History: MNCs Economic incentive Consumer demands
Trade-up programs
Planned obsolescence
Consumer demands
Practices, products
Going green v. ‘greenwashing’
Fair trade

18. How often do you replace your smartphone?

19. -Only 29% electronics are recycled

20. Why are the fisheries a transnational concern?
Economic IL
Commercial pressure
Enforcing MPA policies
Other states, MNCs
Req. cooperation
Lack of resources in Indonesia
WWF- NGO
Regional states
Env.
Fishing states
Overfishing
Deforestation pollution
Threatens biodiversity
Climate change

21. The Future of the Environment

22. The Future Approaches ‘Band-Aid’ solution Cooperation & conservation
Self-interested actors
Climate change = #1 concern
-Resource usage is unsustainable
-Humans are depleting resources too quickly

23. The Future

24. Glacial Melting

25. Your Impact on the Future
Personal consumption choices
Consumer goods
Source of products
Food
Waste link
Reduce, reuse v. recycle
Self-interests v. future survival

26. Recap Collective good Recent int’l interest Main actors
Rosewood tree and fisheries
Recent int’l interest
Main actors
Personal consumption choices
Self-interests v. future survival
Need for int’l cooperation v. st. sovereignty