GEOG 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kuznets Curve, Wicked Problem, Complex System
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Review: max. sustain yield, sustainable dev, environment kuznet"s curve. Achieved by holding the system as best as possible at point c". Command and control method: maintain efficiency in terms of population. Environmental sustainability: maintaining functioning of a system over an indefinite period of time. Equity spatial and temporal: spatially: equity around the system at the current time(evenly distributed) Economic growth can lead to positive environmental impacts. Less necessities for industrialization, new technologies, more affluent and environmental conscious society, more government power. Ability for a system to return to it"s steady state. But this causes disturbances, because it"d be affecting other systems. Ecological resilience: buffering capacity before system flips , constant state of change, complex systems, non- linear. Rational comprehensive planning: define the problem, identify criteria to be used in evaluating potential solutions, generate potential solutions, evaluate solutions based on criteria, recommend the best solution. Policy decisions consists of: empirical claims(scientific facts) Creating a policy, built in claims: normative claims(value based)
