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Unit 1: Framework for a Sustainable Future - Coggle Diagram
Unit 1: Framework for a Sustainable Future
Chapter 1: Science and the Environment
1.1 Environmentalist's Paradox
Use of goods at an alarming rate
Environmental science and the Environmental Movement
Environmental science: the study of how the world works
Global Climate Change
Rapid growth of human population
Loss of Biodiversity
1.2 Sustainability
Sustainable Yields
Forestry, Fisheries, Crops
Sustainable Societies
A society in balance with the world
Currently do not live in a sustainable society
Sustainable Development
progress that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
1.3 Sound Science
Scientific Method
Observation, questions, hypothesis, experiment, peer review
Theories, Natural Laws, and Concepts
Disagreements in the Scientific Community
New Information, Complex Phenomena, Multiple Perspectives, Bias
Junk Science
information that is presented as scientifically valid but does not conform to the rigors imposed by the scientific community.
1.4 Stewardship
The actions and programs that manage natural resources and human well being for the common good
Racheal Carson, Wangari Maathai, Ramesh Agrawal
have justice served for environmental racism and inequality for impoverished countries
1.5 Moving Toward a Sustainable
Social Changes
Environmental Changes
Chapter 2: Economics, Politics, and Public Policy
1.1 Economics and the Environment
Economics
The social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods
economic goods are dependent on environmental goods and services
Economy
the system of exchanges of goods and the services worked out by the members of a society
No environmental goods, no economy
Brown vs green
Green: sustainable economy
Brown: economic activities are contributing to environmental degradation
Economic systems
social and legal arrangements that people construct in order to satisfy their needs and wants and improve their well being
Land (natural resources)
Labor
Capitol
two different types
centrally planned
Free-market (capitalist)
2.2 Recourses in a sustainable Economy
economic production - process of converting the natural world to the manufactured world.
natural capitol- combination of ecosystem capital and nonrenewable mineral resources
measuring the Wealth of nations
natural capital
intangible capital
social capitol
knowledge assets
human capital
produced Capital
wealth acronyms
Gross domestic product
GNP minus net income abroad
Genuine progress indicator (GPI)
calculated by assuming some kind of economic activity is good and sustainable or not.
good things like volunteering, parenting, and housework
bad things like crime, cost of pollution, and depletion of nonrenewable resources
Gross national product (GNP)
sum of all goods and services produced
2.3 Economy, Environment, and Ethics
discount rate - the rate used for finding the present value of some future benefit or cost.
Large amounts of waste produced by wealthy nations
food, trash, clothing
2.4 Environmental Public Policy
Parts of US gov.
Executive
Judicial
Legislative
Senate
House of representatives
Market or regulatory
Regulatory policies
command-and-control solutions: regulated by an agency, polluters are required by law to follow.
Market-based policies
incentivized to limit pollution produced
The policy life cycle
Recognition, Formulation, Implementation, Control
Cost - benefit
external cost - effect of a business process that is not included in the usual calculations of profit and loss.
Fig, 2-14 on page 40
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