ENV100H1 Midterm: Midterm #1 Review Summary of notes from Chapter 1-8

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Barbara Murck

Document Summary

Natural resources physical processes, such as the infiltration of groundwater to replenish an aquafier: resource management strategic decision making and planning aimed at balancing the use of a resource with its protection preservation. Balancing the rate of withdrawal from the stock with the rate of renewal or regeneration. Stock harvestable portion of the resource: it is vital to make efficient use of resource management so consumption is not greater than renewal or regeneration. Four significant periods of societal change appear to have triggered remarkable increases in population size along with increase environmental impacts: paleolithic or old stone age period. When early humans made use of fire and stones: agricultural period or neolithic or agricultural revolution, industrial revolution. Improved standards of living but marked the beginning of industrial scale pollution and many other environmental and social problems. Decline in air quality, water quality: medical technological revolution. Medicine and sanitation = longer life spans and health.