Geography 1500F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Resource Intensity, Ester Boserup, James Lovelock
23 Oct 2017
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Telecoupling: distant impacts f local actions or events, e. g. London greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change globally, with concentrated local impacts in other places (arctic, etc: also consider social and environmental impacts. More views on earth as a living system: cultural, spiritual perspectives. Indigenous understandings of the earth and human responsibilities toward it: legal right to/rights of a healthy environment, costa rica, new zealand, gaia hypothesis (james lovelock) (wont ask details on this, earth as a single organism. Article 2: agyeman just sustainability: the environmental movement has done a bad job of dealing with issues of race and class, social equity must be at the heart of efforts to promote sustainability. Impact: land and the resource use, pollutio(cid:374) : population: number of people, affluence: consumption per person, technology: resource intensity of production. Impact is affected by any changes in population, affluence, technology. Contrasting theories of population growth: thomas malthus (late 1700s, pop.
