PP&D 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Authoritarianism, Numeracy, United Nations Environment Programme

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Planning, Policy, and Design
• Course: PP&D 132
• Professor: Richard Matthew

Document Summary

Fair trade (business model): business using fair practices environmentally sound techniques for a sustainable future. Theres always some place that needs work and needs fair trade and opportunity: creating job and opportunities with a sustainable outcome. Mindfulness: type of engagement with the present, focused attention, open monitoring evident in some people, mindful training associated with broad benefits: health, career, happiness, a step towards personal information to a sustainable lifestyle. Demographic change population expected to peak at 10 billion around 2100. Nature: i= p x a x t: ex: population growth plus economic development enabled by powerful technologies have had an enormous impacts on nature, climate change, land cover loss resource degradation etc. Security: global terrorism, cyber war, cyber crime, gender violence, human trafficking, urban war, pandemic disease, humanitarian crisis, natural resources conflict. Public health: looming challenges for public health: age-related (alzeimers, life-style related (obesity) Poverty related (antibiotic resistent bacteria: environment related (new pathogens)