Geography 1500F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Ecosystem Services, Social Relation
18 Dec 2018
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Place: space connect to social relation and identity: subjective. Rapid travel and communications let people and goods move faster; physical distance becoming less relevant. Ecosystem services: a way to account for different kinds of benefits that ecosystems provide. Makes visible many things that are usually invisible in economic discussions. Planetary boundaries: safe operating space for humanity in regards to biological limits. Ipat: framwork for understanding human impact on the environment. Kuzent curve says consumption doesn"t keep increasing; but pollution haven hypothesis says the reason the rich countries become envir. tal friendly is because they are moving the env. tal unfriendly actions to poor countries. Malthus: population size limited by available resources- when population growth reaches some sort of limit, a crisis will cause it to fall.
