Lec 11: Frameworks for analysis

Question 1

What are the 4 frameworks?

Answer 1

a) scale
b) basic ecological paradigms
c) biogeographic dynamics
d) human/environment dynamics

Question 2

What are the 3 scales?

Answer 2

spatial, temporal, scale of probability

Question 3

what is neuromuscular chauvinism?

Answer 3

The idea of thinking our way of thought is superior, because we are stuck in our bubble. Neuromuscular chauvinism represents our conceptual limits.

Question 4

What are the 3 points of the temporal scale?

Answer 4

1. What is our scale of interaction?
   How long are we interacting for?
2. What is our attention span?
   NIMTOO: some projects get pushed back because politicians fear undertaking them will not get them re-elected
3. Where do we fit in different timelines?

Question 5

What is the scale of probability influenced by?

Answer 5

• the inherent stochastic elements of environmental system (they are unpredictable/random systems in and of themselves)
• the scientific uncertainty about those systems

Question 6

What are the 2 relationships between scale and envr management?

Answer 6

• unit of management
• unit of viability