GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Sea Level Rise, Risk Society
13 Aug 2020
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Increasing interdependence raises some key issues in relation to the environment, health, and security. Now altering environment at global scale (many issues related to this) Again winner and losers through the creation on environmental dilemmas. Negative effects of climate change already showing up. The human footprint (mining, pollution, national resource depletion) Notice: footprint is largely absent in places too wet, dry, cold, or hot, for widespread human habitation (ex: antarctica, sahara desert, amazonia, Sustainability is about the interdependence of the economy, the environment, and. It is defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Vulnerability to atlantic storms is rapidly increasing due to climate change and, in particular, sea level rise. Security illness and death (hiv/aids, sars, h1n1 ) Increase in trade and travel has also increased the threat of the spread of disease.
