[ENVR 1101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (12 pages long)

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Course: ENVR 1101
• Professor: Douglass Daniel

Document Summary

Questions (is this the analogue for where we are today?) Area of impact: population density is 130 people per square mile (us: 16, india: 168) A sustainable society does not use natural resources or produce waste faster that they can be regenerated or assimilated by the environment. Duration of resource use/overuse relative to the size of the resource reservoir. Different waste products have different level of harm and different rates of decay/assimilation. A sustainable society must account for the highly interconnected relationship with its environment and how connections can cause decisions to succeed or fail. Individuals and groups will often make decisions that are in their own interest. The first two principles of sustainability must be meshed with the ethical and moral principles that govern fairness among and within nations, ethnicities, genders, and among the current and future generations. Social incentives must reward those who act in a sustainable way and punish those who are in a non-sustainable manner.