ENV201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rachel Carson, Carbon Cycle, Carbofuran
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Lecture 9- land management: agriculture and parks. Managing protected land: why protect land, how much land is enough, management and challenges facing public lands and parks. Why protect areas? (8 reasons: social functions recreation agency. 1851: toronto was the first city in canada to establish a parks and: physical and emotional health; these areas relieve stress; therapeutic, business and profit. Tourism: resource extraction (earlier thinking atleast, visitor fess, recreation (primary reason why people visit parks today) Advertisement, nyc 1833: wilderness and wildlife preserves (sanctuaries; earlier on it was more focused. Ecological preservation protecting unique + ecologically sensitive areas. 3rd: corridors as oppose to sectioning of into smaller areas. Managing protected land: why protect land, how much land is enough? (12% of ecosys should be protected but rn in, management and challenges facing public lands and parks. Increase in protected areas all over the world. Over 13% of the world"s land base is currently protected in some way.
