GEOG 2EI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecological Footprint, Carbon Footprint, Biocapacity
8 Mar 2018
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Slide 5: forests are disappearing due to forest fires, logging, changing the use of the land for mining, those rates of deforestation are rapidly increasing. Slide 6: chemical pollution, longer term trends amount of greenhouse gasses and link to climate change, linked to how society is functioning in the last 200 years. Slide 7: the impact of population growth: less developed countries predicted to grow by 33% between 2005 and 2050, e. g. India predicted to overtake china as most populous country. Slide 9: ecological footprint (by country: measures: the human use of the environment in hectares per person, canada is the 3rd highest, e. g. Usa available capacity is lower than their ecological footprint aka they take resources from other countries to make up for that. Slide 10: ecological footprint: available: only 1. 7 gig hectares/person, used: 2. 8 gig hectares/person, e. g. Carbon footprint is the most significant and consumption via.
