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| means of controlling or guiding human environment interactions to protect and enhance human health and welfare and environmental quality |
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| weather related damages, geologic hazards, fires, and natural pests which have the potential to harm humans and their civilizations |
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| how does the environment affect human health? |
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| Transfer medium of contaminants which then leads to pollution and a degradation in the standard of living |
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| critical element for human subsistence, livelihood, and quality of life |
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| What do human society's resource exploitation and pollution impact? |
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| natural systems and ecosystems |
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| polices in order to protect public health and welfare in order to regulate private activity that affects the environment |
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| what do state and local growth management aim to do? |
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| control land use and development |
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| civil society: nongovernmental organizations, environmental and citizen groups, land trusts, and property owners |
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| making and defending choices based off society's values |
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what people can do with an object
eg. converting a forest into timber |
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what people appreciate in an object
eg. observing a forest |
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value for its own sake; irrespective of the instrumental and intrinsic values humans hold for it
eg. forests have life |
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regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence
eg. instrumental and intrinsic values |
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Any account of morality that has the effect or removing humans from being the sole thing of concern
eg. inherent worth |
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5 popular views in terms of the environment and the future of society.
Ranging from: "Optimist" "Concerned Optimist" "Hopeful Pessimist" "Pessimist" and "Self-Absorbed" |
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| 4 worldviews of Society in Colors |
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| free-marketers, positive bias, technological optimists |
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| believe bandit capitalism benefits only a small percentage of global population at expense of materially and socially disadvantaged majority. Environment is a distraction to social problems |
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| see the world in terms of ecosystems |
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| do not openly agree/disagree with color views because they believe these beliefs lead society astray. |
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| anthropocentric view in which resources are limitless and progress is defined b economic growth |
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back to nature, bio-centric view.
revere nature vs. economic growth |
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| Environmental Protection (EP) |
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| recognizes environmental impacts and aims to lessen them, but generally without significant sacrifice in an economic growth-objective |
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| "eco-centric" view of the Earth: restructured economic system which does not simply give economic value to environmental resources, but considers economic values in ecological terms |
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| 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 |
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Economy, Environment, Equity
Engagement & Enternity |
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