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. How is saving Siamese rosewood tree a transnational issue?
Economic:
Laos is poor
Corruption
Chinese demand
Env.:
Extinction
IL:
Illegal cutting across borders
Req. cooperation
What other issue is this similar to?
What other issue is this similar to?
Somali charcoal

9. Brief History of Environmental Interest

10. Brief History Global interest only recent Post-materialism NGOs IGOs
Global climate change rallies
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)

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’

18. How often do you replace your computer and phone?

19. -Only 29% electronics are recycled

20. The Future of the Environment

21. Glacial Melting

22. The Future

23. 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

24. The Future Approaches ‘Band-Aid’ solution Cooperation & conservation
Self-interested actors
-Resource usage is unsustainable
-Humans are depleting resources too quickly

25. Your Impact on the Future
Transnat’l issue
Only recent global interest
Personal consumption choices
Consumer goods
Source of products
Food
Waste
Self-interests v. future survival