STAT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Think Globally, Act Locally, Ecological Footprint, Atmospheric Sciences
23 Feb 2017
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**to understand environmental issues, one needs at least a basic understanding of a variety of topics and subjects. Natural sciences: biology (ecology, zoology, botany, etc. chemistry (biochemistry, organic, etc); atmospheric sciences, physics, etc. We must be aware of not just how a particular species lives, but how does it interact with other species, with the non-biotic (abiotic) elements of its environment (air, water, soil, etc. ). * views on reducing consumption, reuse of resources and products, recycling. Economic systems: what are the effects of agricultural systems vs. And then, what affect is there on the environment (level & types of pollution for example) Ex: by some estimates it would take the land area of 3 planet earth"s if all the world"s 7. 3 billion people consumed the same amount of resources as is consumed by the people in the u. s. * how does resource use change between an urban area or a. U. s, china, haiti, brazil, south africa, denmark, etc.
