Environmental Management Approaches Flashcards
Conventional approach
Understanding of environmental system: good understanding and low scientific uncertainty.
ex: urban air pollution
Adaptive management
Limited understanding and high scientific uncertainty. Low severity of consequences. ex: Great Bear Rainforest
Precautionary principle
Limited understanding and high scientific uncertainty. Higher severity of consequences and cost of error is unacceptable. ex: protection of ozone layer
Impacts of urban air pollution
Specifically harmful to children, seniors and people with lung and heart conditions. It can cause eye, nose and throat irritation, coughing, worsen existing lung and heart diseases, reduce life expectancy. Can also damage ecosystems and vegetation, stunt tree growth, reduce crop yields, damage buildings and materials and affect climate change.
Ecosystem change
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Challenges for solving big environmental problems
MCRULL (add takeaways?)
Adaptive management cycle
- Assess problem
- Design
- Implement
- Monitor
- Evaluate
- Adjust
ADIMEA
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Precautionary principle definition
When human activities cause morally unacceptable harm that is scientifically plausible but uncertain. Actions should be take to avoid or diminish that harm. ex: threatening human life or health
Precautionary principle characteristics
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Impacts of increased UV radiation
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Main environmental challenges
- Taking climate action
- Sustainable use of water resources
- Sustainable use of biomass
Criteria for determining approach
- Understanding of environmental system
- Severity of consequences
Conventional approach management steps
- Set a target for environmental parameter
- Linking the target parameter to human activities
- Creating an analytic inventory of the activity
- Determining the reduction required to reach target
- How can the action be achieved most effectively
- Setting and enforcing regulation
- Monitor progress
