R SOC365 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Ecological Footprint, Kuznets Curve, Ozone Depletion
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!1: turning crisis into opportunity - build resilience, invest in the entire earth system, a shift in mindset for transformation, local actors together can deal with large scale and international issues. We have already reached the limits of three planetary boundaries (nitrogen, biodiversity, and climate change). Drying planet: freshwater crisis (pollution of sources, population demands, climate change), two million people live in water stressed regions of the world, groundwater depletion (virtual water trade). !2: water consumption will need to increase by 80% by 2050 just to feed ourselves. Law of unintended consequences: linear view of systems needs to change - need to develop a complex and whole view of systems, building levees on river mississippi. !3: introduction of rabbits to australia - no natural predators, devastating ecological and agricultural impacts, irrigation systems increased food yield but also increase water borne illnesses like. Lower, smaller scales are the sites of fast processes, higher, larger scales are the sites of slower processes.
