October 1, 2008
A community solves its problems through a dialog based on experience and values.
What environmental problems do we want to solve (Assignment 1)?
How does the information in the book relate to those problems?
| Chapter 1 | wiki (no entry means that it's the same term) | |
| exponential growth | ||
| sustainability | ||
| natural capital | ||
| globalization | ||
| 3 types of resources | capital (economics) | |
| tragedy of the commons | ||
| ecological footprint | ||
| poverty | ||
| pollution | ||
| causes of environmental problems | ||
| I=PAT (in read and discuss assignment) | I_PAT | |
| clash of world views | ???? | |
| environmentally sustainable economic development | sustainable_development | |
| four scientific principles of sustainability | ??? | |
different American views
on the environment
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Aldo Leopold
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land_ethic | |
| Chapter 2: | ||
scientific method
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| models | ||
| feedback systems | feedback, negative feedback, positive feedback |
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laws of thermodynamics - conservation of energy and degradation of usable energy with each step |
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| energy and work | work(thermodynamics) | |
| open and closed systems | systems, open_systems_(systems_theory), closed_system |
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organisms | |
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ecosystems | |