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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

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