Population and Environment
Isues associated with most essential of our resources
water consumption
deforestation
energy use
ecology
greek root word oikos meaning household
household symbolizes nature or portion of nature
deforestation
essentially natureal peaceful process of gradual trandformation from one land use to another
dramatic type of change meaning from forest to plantation or to an industry
to some it means a violent image of comercial lumbering
energy
the capacity of work
Thomas Robert Malthuse
explanation for environmental degradation
200 years ago
ecological collapse
crisis were manifested by war pestilence famime vice and misery
multiphasic response model
MRM
A modification of boserups theory
Stockholm Declaration
includes 26 environmental principles classes into three ctatagories
rio declaration
includes 2 principles for environmental protection
sustainable development
the key relationship between economic growth and envrionment
environmentalism
seeks to transform existing cultural beliefs and values and alter society practices adn institutions so that a new ecologically informed person environmental r
elationshop can be achieved
Silent Spring
1962
called attenion to the dangers of the deadly pasticide DDT
Chipko
Began in northen indian state of uttarpradesh in 1989