ENVS 001 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Climate Change, Earth, Ecosystem
12 Oct 2018
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ENVS 001
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
ENVS 001
10/6/17
Guest Lecture: Amy Trubeck
Food System
➢ Production & processing
➢ Distribution & Consumption & Waste
o Interconnected and interdependent nature of food
➢ All effecting the health of
o Environment
o Economy
o Society (equity)
o Individual nutrition
➢ Food System
o An interconnected web of activities. Resources and people that extends across all
domains involve in providing human nourishment and sustaining health
o Happens on so many different scales
▪ Responds to social, cultural, political, health and environmental conditions
and can be identified on multiple scales, from a household kitchen to a
rural village to the globe
o Food is a privilege when we don’t have to think about it every single day when
we wake up
o An issue we have very little understanding of
➢ Systems Maxims
o Play into the way we think about food systems
o The part and the whole
o Network of relationships
o Contextual thinking
▪ Understand the context in which people make their food choices every
single day
o Learning by looking closely at problems and issues
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o Looking for patterns and consequences
▪ Everybody has an individual relationship with food
▪ Expertise without context or consequence
➢ Food System: Multiple Layers
o Events
▪ Ex. Cup of green mountain fair trade coffee with milk and sugar
o Patterns
▪ Hot caffeinated beverage in the morning
▪ Bitter is a taste to be meditated
▪ Origins and processes hidden
o Systemic structures
▪ Global sourcing of ingredients
▪ Larger production systems to create efficiencies of scale
▪ Knowledge is received rather than experiential
➢ We as a nation have primarily become a nation of consumers and not producers
➢ In the last 70 years, we are now at a place where on average Americans send as much on
food away from home as they do with food in the home
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Document Summary
Distribution & consumption & waste: interconnected and interdependent nature of food. All effecting the health of: environment, economy, society (equity, individual nutrition. Food system: an interconnected web of activities. Food is a privilege when we don"t have to think about it every single day when we wake up: an issue we have very little understanding of. Food system: multiple layers: events, ex. We as a nation have primarily become a nation of consumers and not producers. In the last 70 years, we are now at a place where on average americans send as much on food away from home as they do with food in the home. How does an ecologist study climate change: climate varies systemically on the planet, climate (change) if related to diversity, there are several ways to study the effects of climate (change) on biodiversity. Ecological niches: summary of an organism"s tolerances and requirements, multiple dimensions of niches, ex.
