GEOG 1220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pedosphere, Anthropocentrism, Passenger Pigeon
16 Dec 2016
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The solution to all human impact: environmental sustainability. Textbook: chapter 1; chapter 2, p. 33 - 40; chapter 7, p. 186 - 190. Distinguish between human impact on the environment and environmental impact on humans. List several ways in which humans may be able to affect the components of the model (e. g. should be able to: population, resources, environment) Understand alternate definitions of a resource and be aware of the challenges in defining a resource (linked to personal scientific, technological, economic, political and emotional knowledge and experiences) technological, economic, political and emotional knowledge and experiences) Distinguish between the three classes of resources (flow, stock, continuous) Understand the difficulties in defining environmental impact (linked to personal scientific, List the rules guaranteed to lead to environmental sustainability. List the types of human activities impairing environmental sustainability. Clearly a simple and straight-forward strategy is not likely to work in a world consisting of developed, developing and deprived countries: flow resources (potentially renewable)
