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Chapter 12- Population & Environment - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 12- Population & Environment
Issues & Essential Resources
Deforestation
Most direct cause is population pressure. This pressure messes up the water cycle and decreases biodiversity.
Energy use
The capacity to do work. Consumption of energy resources create air pollution & can be dangerous to health status.
Water consumption
Water quality is easily destroyed by pollutants which creates water scarcity
Ecological Complex- Otis Duncan
Nothing in nature grows indefinitely (carrying capacity).
Relationships between organisms & their environment are very complex
Everything is related to everything else
Theories
Direct effects
Neo-Malthusian & Anti-Malthusian
Thomas Mathus
Indirect effects
Multiphase response model (MRM)
Ester Boserup
Policies & Politics
Stockholm Declaration
Rights of the human families to a healthy & productive environment
Responsibilities
General environmental rights
Rio Declaration
Conceptual, ethical, ideological boundaries
Sustainable development
Environmentalism
Distribution of power & welfare across social strata
Chipko Movement
Alter societal practices & institutions
Sustainable development
Transform cultural beliefs & values
Silent Spring
Measurements
Geographic area or territory
The individuals who inhabit a territory
Ernst Haeckel
Ecology & Ecosystem