SCIE 1P50 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Ecological Footprint, Global Hectare, Biocapacity
5 Oct 2016
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Means the earth has to support our different lifestyles. Using goods & services of the planet for our needs. Like when we don"t have to change our lifestyle. Leaving sufficient goods & services of the planet for others including future generations: if everyone wanted the same thing, our world doesn"t have enough stuff to satisfy those wants. Human population growth impacts all environmental problems & consumptions of goods & services. Our consumption of resources has increased faster than our population growth. Over shoot & over draft is because we are taking it from somewhere else. The capacity of ecosystems to produce useful biological materials and to absorb waster materials generated by humans, using current management schemes and extraction technologies. Biocapacity is usually expressed in global hectares gha: piece of area that you can physically measure. Sums up our lifestyles & determines whether or not we are living sustainably. Scie 1p50 lecture 2 monday, september 12th, 2016.
