Comparing and evaluating management responses
Students will need to make a judgement about the benefits and costs of management strategies implemented.
- How effective are the management strategies?
- How can communities and governments attempt to balance environmental, economic and social criteria?
- To what extent can there be trade offs between them?
- What are the practical and ethical dilemmas of national and international conservation programs?
Are the management strategies addressing environmental sustainability?
To answer this we need to consider the functions of the environment…
Source – the capacity of the environment to provide us with materials we rely on such as timber, water and soil.
Fisheries – food
drugs
Sink – the ability of the environment to remove and breakdown waste.
CO2
Service – processes that enable our existence such as stabilising the climate.
Protect coastlines
Provide habitats
Tourism/recreation activities
Spiritual – how the environment provides us with psychological benefits or spiritual connections
Social and cultural activities
Spiritual site.
To answer this we need to consider the functions of the environment…
- Source
- Sink
- Service
- Spiritual
Source – the capacity of the environment to provide us with materials we rely on such as timber, water and soil.
Fisheries – food
drugs
Sink – the ability of the environment to remove and breakdown waste.
CO2
Service – processes that enable our existence such as stabilising the climate.
Protect coastlines
Provide habitats
Tourism/recreation activities
Spiritual – how the environment provides us with psychological benefits or spiritual connections
Social and cultural activities
Spiritual site.
