ENV310H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Virgin Lands Campaign, Corporate Social Responsibility, Tsetse Fly
Document Summary
Concepts of nature environment and early recognition of human impacts. Industrial revolution: turning point: roots of modern environmental movement, roots of modern economics, roots of development theories, roots of modern governance structures. Progress: the idea that civilization is moving progressively in a positive or desirable direction. Development of a linear concept of time: grew out of islamic and judeo-christian tradition. Furthered by religious philosophies that focus on a genesis or creation, followed by spiritual progress and progressive moral perfection of human kind. Has become secularized and almost synonymous with western modernity, technological advancement. Concerns about resources shortages especially wood, grew in the 16th 17 th 18th centuries. Scholars wrote about what we would call sustainable use through balancing harvesting at old trees with growth of new trees. German scholars coined the term ewige wald (eternal forest) to describe this balance. Concept arose that resource depletion might threaten human well-being in present and future generations.
