ENBUS102 Lecture Notes - World Resources Institute, Agenda 21, European Anti-Fraud Office
25 Sep 2012
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Surrounding conditions (integrating both nature and social) Area in which something exists or lives. Global gnp: 18 trillion us dollars/year (costanza et al. Value of ecosystems/ year: 33 trillion us dollars/year. 38% terrestrial systems (majority from forest systems) Environment is everything which affects a living organism: miller and hackett. Interdisciplinary study uses information from physical and social sciences to learn how the earth works, how we interact with the earth and how to deal with environmental problems. (p6) Friends of the earth environmental problems http://www. foecanada. org/ Waterloo region ecological and environmental advisory committee. Evolution: profit, what we can do with the environment to benefit us. Conservation: national parks founded, protection from human impact/influences, ddt pushing factor, taking responsibility for environmental problems, http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/bhopal_ disaster. 1972- un conference on the human environment; stockholm. 1989ff- round tables on environment and economy (canada) 1992- un conference on environmental and development; rio conference; earth summit. Accounts ecological, societal performance as well as economic (elklington, 1994)
