BIOLOGY 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: East Los Angeles College, Environmentalism, Time Horizon
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Rudel- organization for sustainable development: conservation organizations and struggle to protect tropical rain forest. Hot spots - areas facing imminent destruction, places of controversy. Cold spots - places of intact rainforest, not under development by might be in future. "cold spot strategy" - conservation organizations would be more effective by focusing preservation efforts on cold spots with lack of interest. When conditions are right, you can save parts of hot spots. Sustainable development program - one that conserves biological riches while increasing incomes and promoting social equity in communities that use resources. Rudel states if people can be brought together, compromise can be made but we need to be aware of power differentials between groups, and how this shapes the substance of compromises. Projects in impoverished regions often started by outside organizations. Power and rauber- the price of everything discusses economic-based strategy for improving relationship with environment.
