EESA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Garrett Hardin

• School: UTSC
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: EESA06H3
• Professor: Andre Sorensen

Document Summary

Unregulated exploitation of resources leads to depletion. Being greedy finishes resources, people are tempted to use them till they"re gone. Some people know better, e. g. aboriginals have traditional knowledge of management of resources without legal stuff. Easter island downfall of a civilization partially attributed to toc . When euros got there, they found a crumbling culture; ppl restricted to. Study of how the natural world works, how the env affects us and vice versa. New science; emerged b/c of growing realization of impacts and how to manage them efficiently.