Geography
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- personal solutions
- recycle
- GDP ( gross domestic product)
- how much you ear in a year
- Darfur war
- 4 years- governament- 300-000 died- lack of resources, cause rapid pop growth, migration
- society
- not threaten the cultural traditions or social insitiutes of present or future generations
- Good quality of life
- water, shelter, food, health, warm and comfortable, friends and family
- enviormental scarcity
- area had limited amount of resources
- consupution
- use of
- sustainable development
- efforts made by people to help save future, aka process of sustainability
- enhance carrying capacity
- improved agricultural technology
- quality of life- quality of life indicators
- health, food, water, shelter, and society
- world bank
- Per capita gross national income
- transnational
- going beyound boundary
- globalization
- societeics troughout world
- multiple structures and critical thinking
- open big picture, small meaningful questions
- global warming
- take years to feel, effects everybody,underlying desertification, other ex: refguee from climate change
- nonrenewable resource
- fixed in amounts
- underlying structure
- not to fix the patterns get to root of problem
- renewable resourse
- restored replinished
- refugee
- fles froign country
- genuine progress inicator (GPI)
- measurement that adds th vaule of non material services, paid volenter work, but subtracts negative, crime, divorce, polution
- patterns
- recurrence of events, not isolated incident, oil spills
- resource distribution and scarcity
- not distrubted equally, some dont use fair exchange, fresh water
- terrorism
- use of terror
- fossil fuels
- coal,oil, natural gas
- structural scarcity
- unequal distribution
- Enviorment
- energy resources not be used faster than can be replaced
- migration
- move to
- sustainability
- meet needs of life without limiting the future
- system
- group of interrrelated componets that form a complex unified whole
- 5 Characteristics of global issue
- long lasting, transboudary, effects large number of people, underlying cause of events, connected to other issues
- gross domestic product (GDP)
- totaly vaule of goods and services produced annually
- global warming
- greenhousegases such as carbon dioxide and burning fossil fuels build up and trap heat from the sun
- carrying capacity
- pop an area will support without undergoing detortian
- subsides
- money for buisness to encourage something government thinks is desriable
- desertification
- spreading of desert area
- reduce carrying capacity
- pop growth, high levels of resource use by people, pollution, habitat destruction
- worldview
- beliefs and assumptions about how the world works
- economy
- ensure peoples livelihoods are not compromised and same with the future generations
- scarcity
- lack of
- influences of world
- cultural, history, family, politics, religion and education
- structural
- underlying cause of problems, often require actions by the government