11:374:101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: High Tech, Food Desert, Sustainable Agriculture

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Environmental Policy, Institutions, and Behavior
• Course: 11:374:101
• Professor: Clark

Document Summary

How agriculture, population, food, and nutrition interact with each other and with the environment; The major population perspectives, what they believe about population"s role in world problems, arguments they make, evidence used, and applications; Neo-malthusianism: advocates for population control as the solution for all major global problems. Moderate: can see both sides of issue, but thinks there are greater issues. Where you would place the various authors and filmmakers on the spectrum of population thought; Neo-malthusianism: brown, smith, pfeiffer, diamond (focuses on consumption factors and relative populations- it depends on the country itself). High-tech: simon (solution was to improve access to water through more technology and education) The implications of take a short route from farm to plate by harrop and the counter view offered by food that travels well by mcwilliams ; Mcwilliams: eating local isn"t always good for the environment because of the total co2 emissions used to produce food.