ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lake Simcoe, Gross National Happiness, Natural Resource Economics

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

Our wellbeing but not at cost of wellbeing of ecosystems. Our wellbeing but not at cost of wellbeing of most marginalized/women. Human wellbeing (long life, life satisfaction within society) Looking at the above with sustainability in mind. Human species(cid:495) wellbeing subject to bio capacity, ecological footprint. Measure and manage (remind you of orr?- only thing we need to manage is ourselves) Barrie, lake simcoe phosphorus counts with and without economic growth. Runoffs into the lake (manure, phosphor, sewage, chemicals) Causes a huge amount of algae growth. Algae eventually dies, then bacteria eats it (in the process of eating, the bacteria gobbles up all the oxygen. In order to pull back this process and stop the deteriation of lake simcoe with urban growth as usual,, for the next 30 years we have to reduce the amount of. Urban growth from only low impact development (only 2. 2% each year) No urban growth or no-impact development (1. 6% each year)