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Quiz 1 Lectures Flashcards

1
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Natural events and vulnerability

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Human interaction with env Increases vulnerability
- increasing storm consequence - higher impact

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What is the paradox of progress?

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Innovation can increase vulnerability - progress and innovation has created our current environment

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What is self referencing?

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Our capacity to see our own understanding of our adaptive capacity as an important part a our adaptive capacity

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4
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Sinecology vs. Autecology

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Synecology - study of whole communities
Autecology - specific species focus

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Environment - what is it

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The entire sustaining context for life - variable determined by resource relations by available technology& cultural values
Different from human Ecology

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What is human ecology?

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The human influence on our environment

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Management - what is it how does it work?

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Management recognizes the difference between human ecology and the environment

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What is the goal of EA regarding the perceived vs. Hidden env ?

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Try to show the hidden environment - we function within the perceived

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Global North vs. Global south - how does developments differ between the 2?

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  • Global North is the affluent world where we need to address ecological footprint and equity issues -
  • global south regards areas of low material well-being and we want to address meeting basic human needs, then meet rising expectations
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In what way is the human influence unique?

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  • Scale
  • self importance (in human eyes)
  • analytic capacity
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What 3 ways do organisms influence their environment?

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  • Ameliorative (succession)
  • damaging
    . Local extinction
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12
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What is rostovian model ?

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Investing money to reconstruct undeveloped societies; like those demolished in the war

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13
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3 things for animal life

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  • Avoid being eaten
  • eat
  • reproduce

All to sustaina very complex network of cells and organisms

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What is Romer’s rule?

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The effect of evolutionary changes is often to enable organisms to continue their way of life rather than adapt A new one

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What is the red queen effect?

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Much of evolution consists of “running in place”, keeping up with environmental changes, rather than adapting to new environments

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16
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Cosmology

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The determinants of how we act, what we do, what we want to do
Study of the universe - our belief of origins impacting our worldview

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What is ontology vs. Epistemology?

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  • Ontology: Phil. Of being
    -epistemology: Phil. Of knowing
    Aid informing coherent image of The World
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18
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What is the cosmic landscape?

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What is the “tide of ideas”?

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The idea that cosmologies are constantly shifting

20
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What we know about cosmology

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  • our cosmology is “part of how things work”
  • not all people share our cosmology
  • the truths of tomorrow will first appear as “wrong ideas”
21
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What is the anthropic principle?

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Life could not exist in a universe that is significantly smaller than the observed one
We are here by random chance

22
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We do not grasp the detail of the “real world” around US
We construct The World we interact with based On our cultural background
Part of any environment is other people who construct The World in other ways -
!!!!! Environmental management requires understanding of these human dimensions

23
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What are the 4 main frame works for EM?

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I. Scale in environmental systems
2. Basic ecology (nutrient cycling and energy flow)
3, biogeographic dynamics
4.human/environment interactions

24
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What is Occam’s razor?

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Obligation to start with the simplest hypothesis or explanation

25
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Three scales in environmental systems

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  • Spatial
  • temporal
  • probabilistic
26
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What is the basic ecological paradigm?

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If we can trace what happens in the physical world, then we can understand its mechanics
- nutrient cycling & energy flow

27
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Why was the aswan high dam built ?

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  • Rapidly growing human population with rising material expectations
  • Carrying capacity of traditional land use reached
  • desire to control flooding otherwise droughts and floods)
28
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What were important aspects of the Nile River system?

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  • International river basin ( many actors and interests)
  • more people → more pressure on land → more erosion → more sediment → lowered dam efficiency
29
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What were important aspects of the Nile River system?

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  • International river basin ( many actors and interests)
  • more people → more pressure on land → more erosion → more sediment → lowered dam efficiency
30
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What are the environmental impacts of the dam?

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  • Dramatic Down zone - displaces agriculture and people
  • reservoir blocks sediment from flowing down to the basin (downstream soil isn’t fertilized)
31
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What were the expected benefits of building the Aswan high dam?

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  • Add new irrigation
  • reclaim land n drier delta
  • shift to permanent irrigation
  • save water and stabilize flow
  • generate hep to modernize economy
32
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What were the known “externalities” of the Aswan high dam?

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  • Loss of antiquities
  • displacement of population
  • loss of sediment
33
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What were surprises after the Aswan high dam was built?

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_ Water loss through seepage & evaporation
- full impact of soil nutrient loss
- increased erosion ( banks and delta)
- salinization
- collapse of fishery
- spread of disease

34
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What were “lessons learnt” from Aswan high dam building?

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  • Environmental systems are complicated
  • predictive abilities are limited
  • social dimensions are inextrially interconnected

Need to meet human needs within ecological capacity

35
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What is the ecosystem approach?

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A strategy for integrated management of the land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way

36
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teleological adaptation

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We, as humans, have the ability/power to have goals and intentions

37
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Keystone species

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Organisms that hold entire ecosystems together

38
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Steven Pinker

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Author or “enlightenment now” - explains a new age of enlightenment where he makes a case for reason, science, and humanism are more important than ever to make progress today

39
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What is “our common future”

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Report that defines “sustainable development” as “developement that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs”

40
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What is the IAPO?

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The impact, assessment, process, overview

41
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What is the mission of “building common ground”

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To establish trust and get resources to market

42
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What is adaptive capacity?

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The ability of humans to respond/change when faced with environmental change

43
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How is the Impact assessment act different from the Canadian environmental assessment act?

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IAA replace CEAA and takes broader consideration for impacts on health, economy, and gender

44
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Upstream vs downstream impacts

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  • Upstream is for the actual project -things that happen before construction
  • Downstream is after construction - things that happen and people affected
45
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What is a flood plane?

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Fertile ground used for agriculture

Geog 302 (3 decks)

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