Geography

Chapter 4

4.1:

Define the environment:

-Environmental problems:

population growth, globalization, increased prosperity, and wealth all put increasing demands on the environment around us.

-Environmental problems happen as a result.

-These are negative effects of human activities on the environment. 

Kuznets curve:

It explains that most people don’t care about the environment until it starts to affect them. NICs and/or LEDCs care less. They have less education, while the MEDCs do care because they know how and when the earth will die if people do nothing.

Ecological Footprint:

• How many people live on the same hectare, to live in a sustainable way 

  
  

  Sustainable development goals:

  • Developments that meet the needs now, without compromising the ability for future generations to live with the same needs.

  3 very important goals (for this chapter):

  • Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy

  • Goal 12: ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 

  • Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

  4.2

Land Degradation:

• the decrease in size, quality, and diversity of the natural environment.

Pollution:

• The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance that had harmful or poisonous effects

Land Depletion

• Using natural resources faster than that they can be replaced.

Climate Change

• A change in global or regional climate patters because of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide