GEOG 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Earth Summit, World Climate Conference, Kyoto Protocol
11 Aug 2015
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Global environmental change set of biophysical transformations of land, oceans and atmosphere; can be caused by both natural processes and human activities. Systematic gecs those that impact systems that span much of or the entire planet oceans and atmosphere; climate change greenhouse gases are carried by air currents to other places and accumulate in the atmosphere. Greatly increase out impact on the world may also reduce. Technologies in and of themselves are not physically damaging it is how they are developed and how they are used. Economic, political, social values governing structure etc. How we value environment, the laws surrounding environment. Unevenness in the world between developed, highly industrialized and developing states most particularly. And how this and other levels of unevenness (between urban and rural areas for example) influences our relationship with the biophysical environment. The relationships between different groups locally, regionally or globally are also believed by some to influence environmental issues.
