Lecture 8 - Ecological principles, society and economy

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Announcements

• lab in normal rooms
• capstone in ESR
• Geography field term in Morelia

1. Comments on application assignment

scenarios

avoiding the big, costly loss

win-win, cooperative approaches, the soft-path

 

 

2. last chance questions

3. quiz 3

break

4. Introduction to major concepts in Unit 4

principles of community ecology

management based on these principles

urbanization

material cycles in cities

environmental economics

conservation economy

economic and sustainability indicators

5. Community ecology - review principles

• structure
• diversity of organisms
• energy flow
• materials recycling
• interactions include:
  • predation
  • competition
  • symbioses
    • parasitism
    • mutualism
    • commensalism
• community development and succession
  • gross primary productivity and respiration
  • plant communities
  • development - improvement in community structure

• Network
  • stability
  • resiliance
  • resistance

6. Management based on these principles

• Natural Step
• Eco-efficient economy
• McDonough Design Principles

7. Urbanization

• current status
• importance in the future
• health effects
• urban sprawl
• design characteristics
• motility
• metabolism of a city

8. Material cycling in cities

• London
• Denmark
• Oslo

9. Models for community recycling

• control of these cycles
• indicators
• wealth