EESA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Easter Island, Biocapacity, Ecological Footprint
15 Dec 2017
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Textbook: how world work, how environment affect us, and how we affect environment. Study of physical, biological, chemical process happened in environment, how that affect us, and how we affect that, and how that affect itself. Environmental science is relatively new no one could back to 50 years can see human population can big enough to affect environment. Interdisciplinary no so many disciplines behind environmental science at its own. 4: understand human impact to the plant, manage impacts more efficiently. A simple approach to quantifying environmental impact (as scientists, we want to be quantitative to predict, at least qualitative. ) A = a uence (wealth; mostly negative, bc longer live and large comsumption) T technology (technology can increase or decrease environmental impacts) S sensitivity (some ecosystems are resilient, some resistant. some both, most neither) Land (and water) area needed to support one person, higher in developed country: biocapacity:
