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Earth In Balance Chapter 29 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Principals
        
        Essential elements
        
        Adequate Scope
        
        Holistic Perspective
        
        Practical Focus
        
        Guidning Vision and Goals
        
        Openness
        
        Ongoing Assessment
        
        Effective communication
        
        Board Participation
        
        Institutional Capacity
    - - People measuring progress made towards sustainable development using the principles
- - - - The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a measure of the state of the world's biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats.
      - The LPI has been adopted by the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) as an indicator of progress towards its 2011-2020 target to 'take effective and urgent action to halt the loss of biodiversity'
- - - - Ecological Footprints are the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources
    - - The amount of Garbage your household produces
      - using gas to heat up your home
      - The amount of gasoline you burn driving
- - - - Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach under which producers are given a significant responsibility – financial and/or physical – for the treatment or disposal of post-consumer products
    - - Implementing take back programs
      - Implementing Recycling programs
      - Designing products that are easy to reuse
    - - Definitions
        
        Genuine Program Indicator (GPI) is an economic tool used to measure the health of a nation's economy. It incorporates environmental and social factors, such as family structure, benefits from higher education, crime, and pollution, not considered in the GDP
      - Examples
        
        Measuring the health of a countries economy
      - Indicators
        
        Examples
        
        Checking the progress of a countries life expectancy
        
        Making sure a country is following environmental guidelines
        
        Definition
        
        Indicators are commonly used to measure the progress of a country in meeting a variety of different goals like life expectancy and environmental goals
    - - Definition
        
        The Index of sustainable economic welfare is a different way to measure a country's GDP. It takes into account social costs and environmental damages and income distribution
      - Examples
        
        Taking into account the environmental toll that a countries takes on the environment in relation to it's GDP