Environment issues causes and environmental sustainability.ppt

Environment issues, their causes and sustainability

1. Environmental Issues, Their Causes,
and Sustainability
G. Tyler Miller’s
Living in the Environment
13
th
Edition
Chapter 1
Dr. Richard Clements
Chattanooga State Technical Community College

2. Key Concepts
Growth and Sustainability
Resources and Resource Use
Pollution
Causes of Environmental Problems

3. Living More Sustainably
Ecology
Environmental Science
Sustainable Society
Refer to Spotlight on p. 5

4. Population Growth
Exponential
Growth
Doubling Time/
Rule of 70
Fig. 1-2 p. 4

5. Fig. 1-1 p. 2
World Population

6. Economic Growth
Gross National Product (GNP)
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Gross World Product (GWP)
Per Capita GNP

7. Economic Development
Developed Countries
Developing Countries
Positive Aspects
Negative Aspects

8. Globalization
Economic
Information and Communication
Environmental Effects

9. Resources
Perpetual
Renewable
Non-renewable
Fig. 1-6 p. 9

10. Renewable Resources
Sustainable Yield
Environmental Degradation
Tragedy of the Commons
Refer to Connections, p. 12

11. Non-Renewable Resources
Energy Resources
Metallic Resources
Non-Metallic
Resources
Reuse
Recycle
Economic Depletion
Fig. 1-7 p. 10

12. Ecological Footprint
Fig. 1-8 p. 10

13. Pollution
What is pollution?
Effects of Pollution
Sources
Point
Nonpoint

14. Dealing With Pollution
Prevention (Input Control)
Cleanup (Output Control)

15. Environmental and Resource
Problems
Major Problems
(See Fig. 1-9 p. 12)
Five Root Causes
Fig. 1-10 p. 12

16. Environmental Impact
Fig. 1-11 p. 13

17. Environmental Interactions
Fig. 1-12 p. 14

18. Environmental Worldviews
Planetary Management
Environmental Wisdom

19. Environmentally-Sustainable
Economic Development
Fig. 1-13 p. 17
Decision making in a
sustainable society
Social Economic
Environmental
Sustainable
Solutions
Traditional
decision making
Environmental
Social Economic