GGRB21H3 Lecture 9: GGRB21 – Lecture 9
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Business first: final exam wednesday 05 april at 2pm, assignment pushed to april 30th. History of protect areas: emerged initially in late 19th century (1800s) 1: yellowstone in the united states (1872, banff in canada (1885, post-ww2, boom in north american parks tied to infrastructure development (blue ridge parkway, internalization of parks and conservation boom". Aldo leopold: ecologists, forester and environmentalist, author of a sand country almanac, prominent figure in the rising conservation and wilderness movements in the 20th century. = anthropocentrism, human beings see themselves as superior and fill entailed that they can do whatever they want to nature to satisfy their own needs. In colonial africa, governments explicitly conceived pas to protect threatened nature against. Unnatural humanity. (adams and hutton: nature was saved for colonial gentlemen hunters", reproducing a version of the victorian sportsman"s country estate, view of indigenous populations as backwards".
