This week, our objectives were as follows:
- Establish the factors leading to the feedback loop among economic growth, resource optimism, and environment.
- Predict how commoditization of natural capital results in weak sustainability.
- Contextualize anthropocentric, utilitarian natural resource management.
- Culturally contextualize conservationist, nature–centric sustainable management.
- Explain why natural capital and manufactured capital are independent variables.
- Assess the value of quantitative measurements of sustainability.
Assignments:
Please see complete information on the Lesson 2 Overview page and in Canvas.