ENV310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Adaptive Learning, Environmental Health, Environmental Racism
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An anishinaabe perspective on forest disturbance cycles arrows represent relative temporal scale. Adaptive learning for sustainability and social-ecological resilience requires maintaining the web of relationships of people and places. Concepts of justice and social justice are extremely complex, with long histories: discourse is equally political, social, and economic, incorporates both rights and responsibilities, delicate balance between liberty and equity . What do environmental justice, social justice, and sustainability have in common: concerned with distributional equity, concerned with quality of life, both individual and community, concerned with both intragenerational and intergenerationally, all require collective action and long-term planning. We can do social sustainability by improving peoples" quality of life and wellbeing: human development: enlarging the range of people"s choices undp, improving the quality of people"s lives; expanding their ability to shape their own futures . World bank: fundamental challenges of sustainable development, development that is equitable development that is intergenerational, development that stays within planetary limits.
