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Session Four
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Global Environmental Problems & Solutions |
| Class Overview
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This class involves a discussion of the concept of "ecological footprints" as they relate to global environmental problems. This class is in prparation for the next writing assignment which is due in Week 5. |
 Readings |
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Primary Reading: Go to Agenda 21 and read any section beginning with Chapter 3: Combatting Poverty. Then go to the web links portion of this web site and find web sites that illustrate the problems identified in the chapter of your choice. Web Reading: Ecological Footprints of Nations How Much Nature Do They Use? -- How Much Nature Do They Have? By: Mathis Wackernagel, Larry Onisto, Alejandro Callejas Linares, Ina Susana López Falfán, Jesus Méndez García, Ana Isabel Suárez Guerrero, Ma. Guadalupe Suárez Guerrero With comments and contributions by Gianfranco Bologna, Hazel Henderson, Manfred Max-Neef, Norman Myers, William E. Rees and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker What is An Ecological Footprint? Calculating Your Ecological Footprint Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability by William E. Rees, The University of British Columbia |
 Writing Assignment |
Writing # 2 due
Session Five.
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Discussion Questions: Discussion for Our Common Future (or alternate reading Agenda 21) and Ecological Footprint: 1. Please explain what the concept of an "ecological footprint" means. 2. What is meant by the term "carrying capacity" 3. Calculate and report your ecological footprint. 3. What are the ramifications in Florida for the expansion of our human "ecological footprint." 4. What limits our "carrying capacity" in Florida? 5. What is meant by the term "fair earthshare"? 6. Please define what is meant by "earth deficit." Post your responses on the Web Board. |
 Journal Writing |
Continue to journal regularly. You know, since poverty is a part of today's class session, you might want to drive by an are that is impoverished, and make some notes on what you see and what you think contributes to the neighborhood's condition. |
 Final Project |
Please post to the web what topical area you will be conducting your annotated bibliography on. You will be asked to provide an update on your project on session 8. |