Sustainability Final

0.0(0)
studied byStudied by 0 people
learnLearn
examPractice Test
spaced repetitionSpaced Repetition
heart puzzleMatch
flashcardsFlashcards
Card Sorting

1/26

flashcard set

Earn XP

Description and Tags

Final

Study Analytics
Name
Mastery
Learn
Test
Matching
Spaced

No study sessions yet.

27 Terms

1
New cards

Poly Crisis is

Multiple fronts of our own making like economic class, fashion class

2
New cards

3 skills of sustainability

  • Thinking holistically 

  • Long term  

  • Thinking proactive

3
New cards

Movements that lead to

  • One plant 

  • Seeing earth from space 

  • environmentalism  

  • Limits to growth

4
New cards

Post World War 2

  • Negative effects 

  • Not everyone was included 

  • New wave of culoniam

5
New cards

The STGS

  • 17 

  • Went into effect in 2015 

  • Agreed by 120 thousand for these sustainable laws 

  • Low poverty 

  • Clean water 

  • Affordable clean energy

6
New cards

Think Holistically

  • systematic 

  • Well-rounded approach 

  • Looking at the bigger picture 

  • Scale like time, micro, macro

7
New cards

3 E’s

  • Environment

  • Equity 

  • Economy

8
New cards

Stake-Holders

People who make the change

9
New cards

Timeframe

How long it takes into effect

10
New cards

Social Change

Legal changes in social changes like quality of like but in a legal way

11
New cards

Social Movement

A movement that goes against social movement meaning they want social change

12
New cards

Think proactive

Thinking ahead about climate change, natural disasters

13
New cards

Framing an issue

Thinking about a set of goal, like more specific and down the point

14
New cards

Tools for sustainability

Politics

money

Lead certifications

STGS

Carbon footprint

Carbon Calculators

GIS

Taxation

15
New cards

Sustainability Indicators

  • Something that can be counted 

  • It can be measure 

  • It can be copied 

  • Easy understanding

16
New cards

Biological footprint

A tool to used to measure from human and their use of biological used

17
New cards

Carbon Calculator

  • Measuring gas emissions 

  • Done at different levels

18
New cards

What are models

  • Relations on the computer 

  • Theatrical models 

  • Models

19
New cards

Public Sector

  • public including everyone and everything 

  • The government

20
New cards

Private Sector

  • Stores, markets

  • Outside of government 

  • profit

21
New cards

Civil society

Mostly the nonprofit sector

In between sector

Makes no money

22
New cards

Power Mapping

Stakeholders

Business Holder

Politicians

23
New cards

Greenhouse gas

Harmful emissions

Carbon

methane

water vapor

24
New cards

Climate mitigation

To prevent climate change for humans

Reduce carbon emissions

25
New cards

Climate adaptation

Things will change

Like flooding

Food insecurity

Reduce harm from climate change like fire flood

Disease and migration

26
New cards

RPS

Tools to promote clean energy

27
New cards

0 net energy

It produces more energy at night

And uses most at daylight