ENV 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sustainable Development, Carrying Capacity, Permafrost

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENV 1101
• Professor: Furquan Asif

Document Summary

Here are some questions you can think about as you do your readings: Carrying capacity: a measure of the ability of a system to support life. Tragedy of the commons: individuals take whatever benefits are available from the common property until the resource becomes overused and finish. Sustainable development: development that meets the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Biodiversity: the cumulative number and diversity of living things. I found it interesting that the (cid:862)s(cid:272)ru(cid:271)(cid:271)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)i(cid:272)ro(cid:271)eads(cid:863) i(cid:374) (cid:271)ody a(cid:374)d fa(cid:272)e wash produ(cid:272)ts are toxic to fish and organisms. I never thought a(cid:271)out how those ti(cid:374)y a(cid:374)d (cid:862)har(cid:373)less(cid:863) (cid:271)eads (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e deadly to other forms of life. System: a set of elements or parts that is coherently organised and interconnected in a pattern or structure that produces a characteristic set of behaviours, often classified as its.