INTL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Garrett Hardin, Global Commons, Sustainable Development
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Global commons: a natural asset of the earth that is available to all. Clean air, a healthy environment, access to the oceans and outer space. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all garrett hardin, the tragedy of the. Sustainable development: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Geography: the study of earth and its characteristics. Some of the critical challenges that threaten our global well-being: settlement patterns, population growth, food production, energy, and climate change. The earth"s physical attributes have to a large extent determined where people have settled and what they do. Word geography comes from greek scholar eratosthenes 275 bce geo = earth, graphos = description first scientific calculation of circumference of earth based on sun observations. Ptolemy greek origin, 1st century ce, egypt, created map that introduced longitude and latitude.
