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| The circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms as well as the complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community. |
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Definition of Sustainability |
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| Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
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Essentials for a Healthy, Productive life |
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- Food
- Housing
- Clean water
- Sanitation
- Education
- Medical Care
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What makes up the Natural World |
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| Plants, animals, soils, air, and water |
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What makes of the Built World |
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| Social institutions and artifacts that we create using technology, science, culture, and political organization |
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Define Enviormental Science |
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| How society responds to enviormental crises and oppertunities |
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What is the biggest problem facing Enviormental Science |
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| It is not in indentifying remedies but in making them socially, economically, and politically acceptable. |
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What are some persistant challenges we face? |
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- Climate change
- Hunger
- Clean Water
- Energy Resources
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How many people live in acute poverty? |
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1.4 billion (1/5 the population) live on less than $1 a day |
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How many people in the world are considered to be living in poverty? |
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How does poverty relate to protecting the enviorment? |
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The worlds poorest people are both the victims and the agents of enviormental degradation
They are forced to meet short term survival needs at the cost of long term sustainability |
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The united states (5% of the worlds population) consumes how much commercially traded commodities such as oil? |
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How much Industrial waste does the United States produce? |
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| What are the three demensions of sustainability? |
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- Enviormental
- Institutional
- Socio- Economic
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| Define aspects of the enviorment as it pertains to Sustainability |
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- The resources of earth are finite
- Nature, Natural Resources, Climate and Engery
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| What is the role of economic in sustainability? |
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Insustutional Dimension
- Creates norms, rules, and practices that guide and bound human behavior
- Formal: Laws, policies, regulations
- Practices, beliefs, social networks
- May challenge formal institution
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Peoples standard of living
- Cultures with more money have more destructive lifestyles
- People in poverty have higher illness, less education, and struggle to find food and shelter. They are forced to meet short term survival needs at the cost of long term sustainability.
- Poor people are both victims and agents
- Everyone should be able to meet the standard of living without cost to the enviorment
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| What is the result of all three demensions working together |
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Sustainability
- Social-Enviorment: Enviormental justice, Responsible tourism, Respectable DNR
- Enviormental Economics:Green economy, Population control, Enviormental policy
- Social Industrius:Health management, workers rights, health care
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- Natural->Fish
- social->Relationships
- financial ->Cash
- human ->Skills
- built->Schools
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How humans interact with their ecological life support system
In nature one species waste is anothers food so no waste is produced, Our economy needs to recycle materials and use engery differently in order to sustain.
makes natural capital a key consideration |
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| Explain the 4 system conditions required to become a sustainable society |
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- Stop the increasing removal of substances (fossil fuels, heavy metals) from the earth
- Stop increasing the concentration of substances (Plastics) being produced
- Stop the physical degradation of nature (deforesting)
- Stop conditions that undermine a persons capacity to meet their needs (unsafe work enviorment)
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Explain human dimenesions |
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| study of people and natural resources |
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| Explain cognitive heirarchy |
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Value -->Beliefs --> Attitudes/Norms --> Behavior
goes from trancend situations that are fewer in number to numerous, faster to change, specific to situation |
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| Judgement of what is important in a social interaction |
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| Egotistic and effects on enviorment |
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Social power, wealth, power, influence
Consider the costs/benefits for self |
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| Altruistic and impact on enviorment |
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Equality, peace, social justice, helpful
Consider cost/benefit of other people |
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Respecting the earth, unity with nature
considers cost/benefits of ecosystem |
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an expectation
ex) freedom |
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standards of appropriate and inappropriate behavior in a cultural context. Norms are functional because they reduce the number of choices people have to make about how to behave
can also be attitudes
ex)taxes |
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| subconsous actions done out of habit |
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| Why is social science important |
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| if we can alter attitudes and norms we can change behavior |
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| philosophy that guide actions about the enviorment |
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| people with interest or position in a conflict |
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| how you want to go about getting what you want |
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Ownership, can sell, rent, destroy
prevent others from doing these things |
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state/gov owned
ex)Highways
privately owned
ex)House
publicly owned
ex)community garden |
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| what kind of goods are not easily excludible |
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Public goods (the common)
ex) the sunset, knowledge, air
The common pool resources
ex)fisheries, oil reserves |
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| What kind of goods are subtractable |
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The common pool resources
Private goods
ex) cattle |
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| What goods are easily excludable |
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Toll/club goods
ex)day care
Private goods |
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| probability of harm x probability of exposure |
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- Create immunilogical response from something that isnt harmful
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- attack nerve cells (neurons) disrupting or altering is actions
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- Impact DNA
- (can lead to birth defects or tumors)
- ex) UV rays, no safe thresholds, extremely risky
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- Impact embryo growth
- (usually) only risk to females
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- Uncontrolled replication of cells
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Endocrine Hormone Disrupters |
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- Impact sex hormones
- ex) male bass laying eggs
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What are 4 critical factors that impact the risk of toxins |
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- Solubility
- Water soluable flow in and out of cells, fat soluable are stored in lipid molecules making them hard to secrete
- Exposure
- What is the medium (eaten? drank?), timing (child vs adult), Gended
- Movement in organisms
- Bioaccumulation: magnification
- Biomagnification:
- Persistance
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