ENVR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United Nations Population Fund, Megacity, Lewis Mumford
7 Feb 2018
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Module 2 - consumption, impacts and institutions: topics, urbanization, human activity and environment, urban transport in north america: problems, prospects, remedies, food systems, serving 10 billion people daily, fisheries, property rights, common property, collective actions problems. Immigration: rural - urban migration, land use change (pressure on agriculture, benefits and challenges of density (glaeser reading, environmental impacts but also social, cultural. Words and meanings: wilderness, natural, pristine, progress, artificial, civilization, city, metropolis. Picture of mountain: objectively talk about it : rocky, high altitude, not a lot of biodiversity, snow captured on the peaks (ecological benefit), place where you can go hiking, where you can go camping. Niagara falls: we think it is very natural but it is not, every drop of water is organized by a team of engineers aesthetic and recreational reasons for tourist. Images of 19th century london: horrific conditions, working and labor conditions were terrible, overcrowded place, no one knew how to deal with sewage.
