NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Resource Management, Scientific Management
22 Feb 2019
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Nats 1840 lecture 9 resource management and conservation in the industrial age. Natural resource management in canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Canada: government retained ownership and sold the right to harvest timber, mine minerals, etc. State versus private sector ownership in resource management. Conservation linked to preserving source of revenue for the state. Abundance of forests contributed to view that forests could be exploited then land resettled by. Support for conservation from businessmen, professionals and intellectuals, not lumbermen. 19th century, forests believed to be inexhaustible farmers. Scientific expertise and conservation, professional foresters, efficient management, revenues. After turn of the century, view changed, forests a renewable resource to be managed. Conservation directed towards use, not protection or reforestation. University programs, professional associations forester scientific expertise. Conservation a state movement, bureaucratic resources, long-term focus, survey of forests. Conservation combined ideas social responsibility, management of public resources and scientific management.
