GEOG 4220
, Introduction 10101/23
SELF-REGULATING SYSTEMS
Has bias: positive negative feedbacks; and and thresholds
governors, sensors,
·
a -
BIAS
Goal/baseline
sought by a self-regulating system
·Every system has bias
Can't eliminate bias-we must make it
evident/transparent/equitable
·
ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
What are we
managing for? Management...
"Of what?" For whom? "By whom?" At what cost?
, Perspectives on Sustainability 12/01/23
LIMITS TO GROWTH
Based on natural resources, population, food per person, pollution, and industrial
output per person
·
Counter-cultural
TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE
A balance of environmental, economic, and social aspects enhance the quality of life
STRONG AND WEAK SUSTAINABILITY
strong sustainability human and natural capital are not
interchangeable
·
-
"Limits to are rooted in natural law
↳
growth
The Earth is a bounded system with and material limits
energy
↳
Limited substitutability
Weak sustainability human and natural capital
interchangeable
·
are
↳Economic systems respond
↳
to scarcity
through innovation and technology
Growth continues because scarcity of one resource mandates that market will
find alternatives
↓Infinite substitutabiliti
HERMAN DALY'S S RULES OF SUSTAINABILITY
·All renewable resources must be use at a rate less then or to the rate at which
equal
they can
regenerate
All non-renewable resources must be used at a rate less than or
equal to the rate at
which renewable alternatives can be developed
All pollution and wastes must be produce data rate less than to the rate at
equal
·
or
which natural systems can absorb, recycle, or render them harmless
COMMONER'S LAL
Everything is connected to everything else
Everything must go somewhere
Nature knows best-systems to improve nature piecemeal eventually fail
No such free lunch exploitation of natural
thing as a resources always converts
"Usable" into "useless"
, JUST SUSTAINABILITY
·Benefits and costs of resource use must be equally distributed
Marginalization incentives resource overuse
Equity and well-being incentivize resource stewardship
TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP
how information
Largest challenge in environmental
management is is communicated
levels of power
through various
centralized system of information for discussion
sharing allows
, Introduction 10101/23
SELF-REGULATING SYSTEMS
Has bias: positive negative feedbacks; and and thresholds
governors, sensors,
·
a -
BIAS
Goal/baseline
sought by a self-regulating system
·Every system has bias
Can't eliminate bias-we must make it
evident/transparent/equitable
·
ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
What are we
managing for? Management...
"Of what?" For whom? "By whom?" At what cost?
, Perspectives on Sustainability 12/01/23
LIMITS TO GROWTH
Based on natural resources, population, food per person, pollution, and industrial
output per person
·
Counter-cultural
TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE
A balance of environmental, economic, and social aspects enhance the quality of life
STRONG AND WEAK SUSTAINABILITY
strong sustainability human and natural capital are not
interchangeable
·
-
"Limits to are rooted in natural law
↳
growth
The Earth is a bounded system with and material limits
energy
↳
Limited substitutability
Weak sustainability human and natural capital
interchangeable
·
are
↳Economic systems respond
↳
to scarcity
through innovation and technology
Growth continues because scarcity of one resource mandates that market will
find alternatives
↓Infinite substitutabiliti
HERMAN DALY'S S RULES OF SUSTAINABILITY
·All renewable resources must be use at a rate less then or to the rate at which
equal
they can
regenerate
All non-renewable resources must be used at a rate less than or
equal to the rate at
which renewable alternatives can be developed
All pollution and wastes must be produce data rate less than to the rate at
equal
·
or
which natural systems can absorb, recycle, or render them harmless
COMMONER'S LAL
Everything is connected to everything else
Everything must go somewhere
Nature knows best-systems to improve nature piecemeal eventually fail
No such free lunch exploitation of natural
thing as a resources always converts
"Usable" into "useless"
, JUST SUSTAINABILITY
·Benefits and costs of resource use must be equally distributed
Marginalization incentives resource overuse
Equity and well-being incentivize resource stewardship
TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP
how information
Largest challenge in environmental
management is is communicated
levels of power
through various
centralized system of information for discussion
sharing allows
