ENV310H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)
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Sustainability vs sustainable development for daily life: sustainability = the goal, sustainable development = the process, sustainable process or activity that can be maintained without exhaust or collapse, development more difficult to define. Relationship bw sustainability and wellbeing: 4 well-beings of community stability, cultural, economic, env, social. 4 pillars of sustainability: separated soc and cultural. Sustainability framework: sustainability as a nested hierarchy. Strong sustainability human and natural capital are complementary but not interchangeable. Nested spheres of sustainability: version of strong sustainability has env encompassing all 3 aspects. Whats missing: pol/legal/govt and corporate frameworks, technological dimension, practical steps and aspects processes of sustainable development, scale, concepts of individual responsibility. Idea of progress: progress: idea that civilization is moving progressively in a +ve side, started out as a religious practice. Early recongnition of human impacts: philosophers wrote about env degradation and resource depletion resulting from human activities.
