EUS 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ecological Footprint, Subsidy, Carbon Footprint

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Environment and Urban Sustainability
• Course: EUS 202
• Professor: Christopher Greene

Document Summary

A high proportion of people live in cities/urbanized areas. Urban residents tend to exhibit higher consumption and contribute substantially to globally environmental problems. Globally cities cover 2% of earth, linked to ~78% of carbon emissions related to human activity, consume ~76% of industrial wood use and account for ~60% of water use by people. Securing means for human survival, improving environmental conditions, improving overall quality of life, promoting equality and participatory decision making. Sustainability is about more than maintaining communities, goal for improving them movement towards sustainability does not mean it will be achieved. The maximum population of a given species that can be supported indefinitely in a defined habitat without permanently impairing the productivity of that habitat. Ecological footprint: total number area of productive land and water required continuously to produce all the resources consumed and to assimilate all of the wastes produced by a defined population.