PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Garrett Hardin, Microsoft Powerpoint

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Peace Studies
• Course: PEACEST 1A03
• Professor: J.Tunnicliffe

Document Summary

References (in text or footnotes) plus bibliography. Printed copy of the rubric (2pages) to back of essay. Logo for watertown citizens for peace, justice and the environment . Prompted to look after the environment in non-conflictive ways. Freedom in the commons brings ruin to all . Term coined by hardin referring to a problem that occurs when indivduals exploit a shared resources for personal gain with the results that the resources becomes unavailable to all. Hardin evolutionary biologist: concerned with over-population and the depletion of natural resources (what are the implication/ significance of this?) Competition for natural resources can lead to conflict. Conflict causes environmental destruction / loss for resource. But environmental destruction / need for conservation / programs to create sustainability. Regional war and violent conflict for last 50 years. Suffers from a number of sever environmental problems. Many conflicts intiated partly by tension over shared resources, those same resources have been damaged by the conflict,. (un report, 2007)