Lecture 1

Question 1

Environmental Science

Answer 1

• Natural World (environment)
  -Created World (infrastructure)
• On a mission
  *obtain knowledge
  *develop remedies for problems we are causing
  *Display remedies
  (science- based)

Question 2

Pragmatic Resource Conservation

Answer 2

Embraces the sustainable use of resources
“Used for the greatest good of the people for the longest time possible

Question 3

Pragmatic Resource Conservation

First Documented

Answer 3

Ancient Greece
-timber was high in demand
- land limited -> population increasing
-massive pressure on trees
-Aristotle and Plato
*Forest monitoring programs

Question 4

Pragmatic Resource Conservation

Colonist in the New World

Answer 4

Pattern repeated
- George Perkin MARSH
*“Man and Nature” - Wrote first environmental textbook

-Theodore ROOSEVELT
*Protected massive areas of land

Question 5

Moral and Aesthetic Nature Preservation

Biocentric Preservation

Answer 5

Natural Ecosystems should be protected in original state

Question 6

Moral and Aesthetic Nature Preservation

Answer 6

Transcendentalists (New England)

-John “Man of the Mountains” MOIR
-Aldo LEOPOLD
*First professor of wildlife Management @UW-Madison