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Lecture 3 - The Vulnerability of 21st Century Cities Flashcards

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Why is consumerism bad?

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No responsibility to people around us, isolate, detach ourselves to nature

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What are the vulnerabilities to cities today?

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  • increasing global interdependence has implications for security of urban populations
  • increasing concern for reliable food supplies
  • “Peak oil” could impact price and availability of food, urban transportation, and future size of cities
  • human-induced climate change could end peaceful global integration
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Setting the Ecological Stage

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  • Global ecological change is accelerating
  • cities face challenges to their functional integrity, even survival
  • need to better understand cities as ecological entities subject to biophysical laws or else societies will not be able to assure the sustainability of cities
  • need to understand cities as organisms
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unprecedented challenges require what?

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unprecedented solutions

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What shift did humans do to land that started unsustainability

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shift from hunter-gather to agriculture-based, settlement-centered way of life

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Why are cities an emergent phenomena?

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cities make up a small portion of human time line

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What did First Nations do right?

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had innate connection to the land only used what they needed, very sustainable

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what negative aspect did this shift create?

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urbanization insulates city dwellers from the negative consequences of their own ecological dysfunction, physical and psychological disconnect

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People’s lives are separated from what?

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land

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Separation from land causes what?

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  • diminishes urbanites’ sense of connectedness to the land

- critically reshapes spatial relationships and psychological sensitivities to nature

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What are the challenges of urbanization?

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  • urbanization is still viewed as a demographic or economic phenomenon
  • urbanization does not reduce dependence on productive ecosystems
  • don’t see things environmentally when living in cities
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Why are we not green?

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because we are huge consumers

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Which city is the most economical city in North America

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Manhattan, low carbon footprint

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What is urbanization transformation?

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transforms local, cyclical ecological production systems into global, horizontally-disintegrated, unidirectional, throughput systems

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What needs to happen with ALR?

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We need to not develop the land if we want to be sustainable, need to use it for local food source

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What is ecological footprint?

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refers to the area of land and water ecosystems required on a continuous basis, to produce the resources that the population consumes and to assimilate its (carbon dioxide) wastes, wherever on Earth the relevant land/water is located

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What are all human populations competing for?

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productive capacity (biocapacity) of the earth

18
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Ecological footprint measures what?

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how fast we consume resources and generate waste

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What are 5 categories for ecological footprint?

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Carbon footprint - Energy
Built-up land - Settlement
Forest - Timber and paper
Cropland and Pasture - Food and fibre
Fisheries - Seafood
20
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Cities are in what kind of deficit?

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ecological

21
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What is an oxymoron?

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Sustainable city

22
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What is almost absolute?

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Ecological dependence of urbanites on the hinterland

23
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What must work together to achieve sustainability?

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Urban sustainability work with rural sustainability

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what is the world exceeded?

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its long-term global carrying capacity

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what must heathy countries do?

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free up ecological space for needed growth in the developing world

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what has efficiency done?

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increased consumption

27
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what is the world addicted to?

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material growth, consuming

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What is increasing with modernization?

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energy, material, and water throughput

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What is needed to be sustainable?

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intergovernmental program planning needed to reduce population, less material-intense lifestyles, reshape cities in the image of natural ecosystems, giving respect to the earth (First Nations approach)

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What must individuals do?

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be aware of what they are consuming and where it is coming from, be a citizen not a consumer

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