ENV222H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ocean Acidification, Wicked Problem, Anthropocene
14 Jan 2019
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Env222 - lecture 1 - introduction to course. Describe + understand key threats and challenges of the eco-crisis, and analyse their interrelations. Explain how many of these key challenges can be described as wicked problems and require an inter/trans disciplinary approach to understand/solve them. Describe + analyse how technological, political, economic, psychological, perceptual, and ethical factors contribute to the eco-crisis. Describe + analyze the nature of sustainability, describing key characteristics of sustainability and envisioning the necessary transformations to achieve it. Describe, analyse, and assess currently adopted approaches to solve the eco-crisis, and possible strategies to achieve sustainable human societies and regenerate ecosystems. The eco-crisis threatens human civilizations and earth"s ecosystems. According to brown"s plan b , starting in 2009 it would have been possible to: But there is a severe lack of political will. Einstein: the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of.
