GEOG 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Electronic Waste, Urban Geography, Everyday Health
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Natural: unmodified nature, culture, built (i. e. park, man made lakes)- are. Revolution (farming) industrial revolution (urbanization) medical. Traditional economic accounting: clearcutting a forest for a profit is pure gain, not thinking about nature that"s lost. ; how much to pay for silence/not have noise or light pollution? (building airport loud). Attempts to value existing environmental resources: ecosystem services: in/direct contributions of ecosystems to human well-being; support humans survival & quality of life, u maryland study found that ecosystems services trillion/yr; global gdp only. I= p x a x t describes impact of human activity on the environment. T = level of technology (more technology= more impact, but not necessarily: model of pollution/environmental degradation (3 parts): Demographic effect (population size)- increased population= increased problems. Affluence effect: increasing use per capita is major problem, not population- how much people spend not how many people there are.
