GEO 702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Nature, Overgrazing, Cubic Metre
22 Nov 2017
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Recyclable: linked to the concept of function. Value from use ($ use vs non-use: goal of a state corporation or individual is bound up in the use of resources. Introduction of another way of looking at function, therefore another way of looking at resources. Common property resources: these can be defined as shared resources, air could be seen as an example. All share in breathing but has other uses (heating cooling and so on) Low demand number of cattle on the commons would be lower. Wars: human population increases (drop in dr, treatment of cattle improves, demand grows as does ability to improve, the notion of creating surplus value from the harvest became commonplace. Excess can be sold and return could come ask the individual who has produced surplus: the concept of private property. Meat, hide, etc: the additional grazing may lead to overgrazing but the costs of correcting this new land, land improvements are bome by all the hardemn.
