ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emergence
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Legal issues-the environment is a legal entity: ecuador and bolivia are adopting this perspective. Environment is seen as having same rights as humans. Environmental policies: practices need to be defined by various organizations. Socially/culturally/philosophically-how do we think about and relate to the environment: how we frame our definition of the environment impacts how we thing. Oil exploration was threatening the amazon basin. The march was in support of indigenous people and environment. The bill c-38 fisheries a(cid:272)t says you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t do this to fish ha(cid:271)itat Fisheries act is the oldest act in canada. Fisheries act always protected fish habitats, but now it only protects the fish habitat for the commercially important species. There is no such thing as a habitat for a single organism: each organism is interconnected through a single habitat. Anderson and 3 others wrote powerful letter to harper government of damaging effects of changing the fisheries act (cid:862)no ha(cid:271)itat, (cid:374)o fish(cid:863)
