UU101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, George Perkins Marsh, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
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Uu101 key concepts and reading questions for week 4. Thiele chapter 3, ecological resilience and environmental health and philosophical terms. The thiele chapter this week covers the biosphere dimension of sustainability. We are interested in this chapter both in deepening our understanding of the non-human processes and systems of the planet, but also the way humans relate to those systems both in material get the main arguments. You don"t need to use these concepts in your reading question. Remember that your responses to the reading questions for tutorial need to be uploaded to. Myls and submitted in hard copy to your ta at the start of tutorial. Key concepts and thinkers: biodiversity, resilience, emergent property, self-regulating system, mass extinction, millennium ecosystem assessment, speciation, keystone species, ecosystem services (george perkins marsh, paul & anne erlich, robert costanza, gretchen. Wilson: misanthropic, environmental ethics, concentrated animal feeding operations, permaculture, ocean acidification.
