ENVS195 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Living Planet Index, Habitat Destruction, Ecocentrism
7 Dec 2015
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Chapter one notes & september 17, 2015 lecture notes. Humans, other living species, and non-animate phenomena exist. Nature: social creation and the physical environment that includes human beings. Not just objects, but a reflection of: philosophies, belief systems, and ideologies. Society: the sum of the inventions, institutions, and relationships created and reproduced by human beings across particular places and times. Nature is both a physical realm and a social creation: it is important to understand the social ideas of nature present in society today & the history of those ideas. Sustainable development: economic development that meets current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs overriding priority should be given social and future needs. Concept of needs: the essentials of the world port to which the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and organization on the environment"s ability to meet present. Except local/native knowledge and seeks to incorporate it was.
