HGP100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gross Domestic Product, Marxism, International Inequality
19 Apr 2016
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Sets of interrelated parts linked together to form a unified whole. Useful to describe a wide range of phenomena and offer a simplified description of what is a usually complex reality: ecology, ecosystem. Study of house study of organisms in their homes. An ecological system comprised of a set of independent organisms, and their physical, chemical and biological environment: humans have culturally based wants, humans continually evaluate physical environments. As human culture changes, so do those evaluations. Something only becomes a resource" if humans perceive it as useful in some way: i. ii. i. i. i. i. ii: technological, political, economic, social, resource division. It is not by the habits of discard. It"s the volume-related to material wealth: example: solid wastes and rubbish. Average person produces 4. 4 pounds of garbage a day. i: what is this a function of, growing population, rising incomes, changing consumption patterns. 4: from packaged foods, plastic wrappings and containers for every.
