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Framework
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Topic outline
Click the linked topics below for additional
resources
| Human
Systems |
| 1. Human well-being and environmental
quality |
a. Interdependence
b. Sustainability |
| 2. Consumption and natural resources |
a. Population -
world population,
exponential growth,
birth/death rate, age
structure, migration, historical patterns |
| 3. Effects of natural resource
consumption |
a. Social development - affluence,
health,
culture, economic growth
b. Resource distribution - food/water
distribution, nourishment, wealth gap
c. Waste - reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse;
toxic waste; pollution
d. Cultural diversity threats
e. Variability - socioeconomic status, race,
culture, ethnicity, etc. |
| 4. Addressing effects |
a. Education - empowerment of women,
needs hierarchy
b. Political action - laws, lobbying,
environmental justice
c. Ecomanagement - trail building, recycling,
ecosystem restoration
d. Legal action - lawsuits, law enforcement
e. Lifestyle choices - ecological footprint,
consumer choices
f. Community involvement - service learning,
ecomunicipalities |
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