Economics 2150A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Material Flow Analysis, Planetary Boundaries, Backcasting

• School: Western University
• Department: Economics
• Course: Economics 2150A/B
• Professor: Colin Denniston

Document Summary

The bulgarian lifestyle back-casting lcsa by arjan de koning. Broadening: you also look at social and economic aspects along with environmental. You also look at the total societal demands for products. Deepening: you also want to investigate what shortcomings occurred and how to improve it better knowledge and design of new technologies. It helps expand the things you have to think about when looking at products. 2050: challenges: population = ~10 billion, gdp will quadruple, decreased stocks (in metals, bio resources, water) How to food, feed, fuel, and fiber a 10 billion people society providing the good life to everybody in a sustainable way? politicians you can really influence things. Building the 2050 scenarios is magic" how do you build something that is. Is it sustainable socially, economically, and environmentally: tools: material flow analysis (mfa), lca. Input output (ee-ioa) analysis can help us with this instead of lca: total consumption and production instead of individual products/functions.