ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kryptonite, Contracture, Hominidae
11 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Over 70% of primates are threatened with extinction. People lite to shoot animals, lots of animals killing. Lot of rea(cid:272)h people to to area to gi(cid:448)e gorilla so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)tra(cid:272)ture. Farming in africa, become more an more farm land. Cost to see a gorilla: permit, (not including airfare, hotels, tec. ) Weather and space and culture. hard to working, hotter and hotter. Vulnerability- fro(cid:373) (cid:862)(cid:449)ood(cid:863) (cid:862)that (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is sus(cid:272)epti(cid:271)le of i(cid:374)jur(cid:455), e(cid:454)posed to da(cid:373)age(cid:863) (cid:894)oed(cid:895) Natural system: degraded systems, systems with critical species that are threatened, shrinking systems (islands), systems facing unknown threats to which no defence has been created. Social systems: obvious vulnerabilities defined against, e. g. disease, war, disaster; unobvious disasters: (cid:272)u(cid:373)ulati(cid:448)e i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)ts, so(cid:272)ial degradatio(cid:374), stupidit(cid:455), (cid:272)o(cid:449)ardi(cid:272)e, greed . You would never able to go out in sunny day. Resilience (cid:862)the (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) of a s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) of (cid:271)ou(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)a(cid:272)k fro(cid:373) a stress(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:271)orro(cid:449)ed fro(cid:373) engineering) Natural systems: robust simplicity, appropriate diversity, size/refuges patchiness.
