SUSTAINABILITY My ecological footprint: After taking my Ecological Footprint quiz‚ it seems that to support the lifestyle I’m living‚ it takes 3.4 hectares of the Earth’s productive area and it requires the regenerative capacity of 1.9 planets each year. If everyone lived the same lifestyle as I do‚ it would take about 1.9 planets each year to sustain the human population – shocking‚ isn’t it? I try to make a effort to help the environment by purchasing organic food where possible‚ I don’t eat
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“The Myth of the Happy Yeoman lives on in Contemporary Sustainability Discourse” Discourses‚ using spoken or written language in a social context‚ are more than narratives of human existence. A contemporary feminist author and professor‚ Chris Weedon‚ paraphrases French philosopher‚ Michel Foucault in the following passage: (discourses are) “ways of constituting knowledge‚ together with the social practices‚ forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledges and relations
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com/concise/genetically%20modified%20organism%20(gmo) Texas Renewable Energy Dictionary.com. (2014). Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sustainability Dictionary.com. (2014). Ecocentrism. Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ecocentric The Free Dictionary. (2014). ecophysiology. Retrieved from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ecophysiology Merriam-Webster. (2014). Hedonism. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hedonism Dictionary.com. (2014). Iherent Value
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REVISITING THE ”TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS” University Sciences Po Paris Semester: Fall 2011/2012 Student: Sönke-Timo Kisker Student – ID: 100033186 Course: Thinking and Acting the Environment Course-ID: 23811 Course Coordinaton: Florence Faucher-King; Thomas Léon Assignment: Mid-term paper Word-count: 2746 Date: 18.10.2011 | Agenda
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Given access to the same facts‚ how is it possible that there can be disagreement between experts in a discipline? Develop your answer with reference to two areas of knowledge. Given access to the same facts‚ disagreement is possible between experts in a discipline- such as that of human development- because conflicting claims can simultaneously be true and shared knowledge is an illusion. Though words hold different explicit and implicit meanings for each individual of humanity‚ to attempt to establish
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by the United Nations in 1982 (a third of a century after adoption of its Universal Declaration of Human Rights) codifies this transformation. There are‚ however‚ two basic approaches to the ethical defense of nature: the anthropocentric and the biocentric. The founding book of the contemporary environmental movement‚ Rachel Carson ’s Silent Spring (1962)‚ was fundamentally ambiguous in this respect. When calling attention to the unwitting destruction of the environment by DDT and related petrochemicals
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Ch. 4 Notes Situational Analysis - A process planners use‚ within time and resource constraints‚ to gather‚ interpret‚ and summarize all information relevant to the planning issue under consideration. Goal - A target or end that management desires to reach. Plans - The actions or means managers intend to use to achieve organizational goals. Scenario - A narrative that describes a particular set of future conditions. Tying plans to a firm’s financials is a key element of success. Bottom
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Low-carbon Technological Paradigm in Urbanization of China Hao Dong Hao Dong‚PhD Candidate ‚ China Community Party School Abstract With the development of the industrial civilization in the 20th century‚ human has the science and technology to create the great productive power and social fortune. So‚ science and technology have become the basic content and key lever for development of human civilization. The science and technology is also the power of urbanization. At the same time‚ due to the
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Study Guide for Final Exam The final will be cumulative‚ although much of the test will focus somewhat more heavily on the material covered since the last midterm. There will be some questions that have been taken directly from the two earlier midterms. You’ll almost certainly recognize these questions; if you’ve reviewed the earlier exams with me in class (or in person) & know the answers to most or all of the questions‚ you’ll breeze through them. Read each question carefully‚ though‚ as
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MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Frameworks for Environmental Management Unit 1: Introduction Contents Introduction .................................................................... 3 Learning outcomes................................................................................... 3 Readings for this unit ...................................................
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