Sociology of the Environment
Using one sentence but no more than two sentences, answer each of the following questions.
What is the term used in this course to signify the amount of land (including surface water) required or used by a person or group over a specific period of time?
What is the term used for conditions in which human exploitation and consumption of ecosystem services (including all resources extracted from nature) exceeds the capacity of ecosystems to renew themselves or heal?
What is the concept presented in this course that likens the biosphere to a giant living thing made up of interconnected and interdependent parts?
Why do birth rates not show a significant decline early in stage two of the demographic transition even though death rates exhibit a pronounced decline?
What is the term used for the idea that human ingenuity, science and technology make civilization less vulnerable to the forces of nature and less dependent on the natural environment?
Identify one of the factors that encourages people in many less developed countries to have large families.
Provide one of the reasons used in this course to explain why people in modern developed countries consume more goods and services than are required to sustain physical health and a reasonably long life.
What is the term employed in this course to describe the new way of thinking required for human societies to avoid environmental degradation?
What is the academic discipline or sub-discipline which focuses on the interactions between human societies and the environment?
Identify the principal development that helped humanity avoid the sort of mass global famine predicted by Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb.