Learning Goals/Objectives for Conservation as a means of protecting scarce resources:
Important people | Key ideas | Pollution map | Web page links
After class exercises and this reading, students will be able to
- differentiate between those cases of development where preserving resource values can be differentiated from conservation as separate reactions to the same projects.
- describe techniques to study how preservation may protect community access to resources needed for subsistence.
- describe the following intermediate steps in how river or watershed system can be damaged, degraded or destroyed by altering upstream land use habits.
- interpret arguments made by two or more advocates of a biological perspective and use this to determine or explain a mechanism for better protecting keystone species.
- describe properties of the arguments used for conserving resources for future uses.
- explain the difference between the conditions that lead to opposite outcomes or interpretations of the same case of cases with regard to forestry, fishery or soil conservation.
- describe the role of preservation with examples of people who argued for this position.
- state the role of conservation in protecting land, water, soil or vegetation.
- Analyze how preservation might be used as the measure of how ineffective conservation policies are in protecting people and resources.
Industrialization brought with it destruction of rivers and damage to the air.
Sulfur dioxide from industrial emissions are a major contributor to acid precipitation that harms vegetation, forests, fisheries, building surfaces, & streams.
Important people | Key ideas | Pollution map | Web page links
People whose ideas mattered:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- George Perkins Marsh
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- John Wesley Powell
- W. John McGee
- Mary Austin
- Gifford Pinchot
- Hugh Hammond Bennett
- Aldo Leopold
- Rachel Carson
- Eugene Odum
Important people | Key ideas | Pollution map | Web page links
Key pages:
Conservation is defined as a complement to preservation
"Launching the Conservation movement was the most significant achievement of the Theodore Roosevelt Administration, as he himself believed.".
Conservation described and contrasted historically with protecting values
Powell and Conservation versus preservation
For that reason, sustained yield forestry was a conservation practice that seeks to protect the watershed by growing timber, as one would a crop, but harvesting ...
Conservation as opposed to Preservation
Conservation for the People
Interconnections of people and the natural world must guide conservation efforts the authors say. Pitting nature against people makes little sense.
Protecting indigenous access to and people's reliance on natural resources
Movement for a nationwide uniform policy to promote conservation
The failures of conservation as indicated by a schism, or split in the movement between 1890 and 1921 is but an indicator of the widespread strengths as ...
Three waves of Conservation
'Cosmetic conservation,' contrasted with-policies known as ...
"Fear underlay the upswell in what used to be called 'conservation,' but was increasingly known as 'Environmentalism.' It was not the old fear of running out of ... new fears
A shift in conservation priorities
Water Conservation
We have a water use policy; by relying on water consumption, we have yet to develop the ethical imagination to foster water conservation. The capacity of water ...
A water consumption rather than the conservation approach
Conservation of Natural Resources
Conservation of Natural Resources means we must actively protect life. Creating guidelines for future actions to assure the protection of the Earth, its resources, ...
Outcomes on may expect from conservationWater conservation for Florida's future
There is no ability to sustain existing uses and there can be no further development without ample, clean, fresh water supplies. Water conservation is a civilized ...
Water conservation alert.
Water Centric ideas and conservation
watered landscape | conserving | water is life | watershed diagram | five precepts ... “Conservation means reducing or eliminating wasteful use of a resource.”.
The role of water in conservation.
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