Concept Check 2 Lauren Blevins

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1. Reflecting on the materials from Week 3, do about 30 minutes of research into the land use planning policy for the city or state where you live. In your opinion, does the land use planning in your area prioritize a sustainable future for our ecosystems? Why or why not? Which ideas from the videos/readings/class this week do you think should be implemented in your area? Why? I could only find the zoning plan for Hamilton, Ohio. It’s mostly business. I definitely don’t think they prioritize a sustainable future for our ecosystems, to me it’s showing that they are prioritizing money. Because of the river, they are breaking up businesses and the roads on the land. This makes me think of Lecture 4, Land Use and Ecosystems, when we’re told about habitat fragmentation, and how that occurs when land is in use and it breaks apart ecosystems into smaller, separated, ecosystems. From the same lecture for land used in ecosystems I think that it would be very beneficial to have biodiversity services incorporated into the business services for Hamilton. There is so much beautiful nature in Hamilton, Ohio, with the great Miami river, and the hiking path and the animals. There is a whole beaver dam with active beavers, and I think it would be very cool to have something that incorporates that and doesn’t stray away from it. We were also given the resource National Wildlife Federation ecosystem services, and this made me think about how we should preserve the animals in the wildlife in Hamilton, Ohio. My first thought was the amount of fishing in the river, and how it’s unregulated and how there’s a lot of pollution, and how the human action that we have there has caused a big change in the ecosystem of the river and it could be very damaging. It should be more regulated and have a supportive service and incorporate ecosystem service into Hamilton, Ohio especially in the Great Miami River that is in the heart of Hamilton, Ohio. 2. Reflecting on the materials from Week 4, can you think of a common pool resource in your own life? How is it being managed? Could it be managed differently? As we learned in lecture 6, tragedy of the commons, the common pool source is a source where collectively a group of people is taking from the source. In my own life, I can think of things like silly examples, the fridge in my home that is shared, our toilet paper stock, and things like that. That's what I feel like are good examples to really understand the idea. However, those things can be managed very easily. But when I think about a common resource outside of my home, I think about the park with all the trees and how they’re cutting the trees down and how eventually that resource of trees will not be there anymore. Right now it’s not being managed well. The trees are just being sporadically cut down with what seems to be no rhyme or reason besides, maybe erosion is the reason but I do see that they’re planting more trees in that park but they’re smaller. Way smaller than the trees being cut down. I don’t know if they could go about it differently because I’m not sure of the damage of the trees myself, so I’m sure that the sporadic cutting of the trees makes sense in someway and I do see them planting new trees and new plants so I do think that they’re trying to replenish what’s being taken, but it is something that I think is a collective action because we know that

the wood could be used for many different things, and could be going towards many different projects within the city and outside the city. 3. Apply Elinor Ostrom's ideas to the Lobster Wars case - what elements of Ostrom's guidelines for community management do you see in Punta Allen? What's different in the case of Florida? What’s different in the case of Florida is Florida just has seemed to stop trying to legalize it. But when you take Eleanor‘s guidelines and see what is in Punta Allen, you can see how much Mexico wants their Casitas to be clean so they’re very well managed, they're tagged and they’re clean. They’re all the same and are not made out of car hoods and trash. They’re very regulated. They’re also fitting the needs of local needs and conditions like these people need these lobsters. It's their main source of money and food so it's governed in that way. The article also mentioned how a lot of people were in the government action and how one person even said that they regret being in it because they saw how the government operated. So obviously, there’s a lot of participation in the decisions that were being made regarding the usage of Casitas and what they were doing. That’s one thing that Ostrom wanted was lots of participation and decisions. Mexico also governs themselves when it comes to the casitas like they cleaned up after themselves and they tag things themselves. They made it orderly themselves, and the higher level authorities recognize that and, that is what Eleanor Ostrom mentioned as well and again Florida is not doing any of this.

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