Renewable resources Flashcards
Energy in system context
energy conversion, energy demand-supply, energy scenarios and worldviews
nature in system context
logistic growth
predator-prey dynamics
regime change
biodiversity scenariios
human species in system context
biological roots, demographic transition, consumer and producer behaviour
managing the commons
complex system modelling
agriculture in system context
food supply potential
environmental feedbacks
concentration in food system
food and worldview diversity
renewable resources from system context
water
fish and forest resources
exploitation
non renewable resources system context
supply-demand dynamics
depletion
learning by doing
enduring environmental problems
If over exploiting by humans leads to scarcity
humans adapt
e.g. we start farming fish
local resources are often overexploited
by people from the outside
renewable resources are
intrinsic
decentralized
local
Bert thinks that unsustainable over exploitation can be explained by
homo economicus
Innovation makes humans more … but …. more …
productive, productivity, destructive
Shift in thinking is needed
humans must be seen as social beings with different forms of rationality (worldviews) that are part of the resource system
Homo Economicus
Humans – or agents – in economic decision processes are rational and choose with perfect information and foresight in a perfectly competitive market.
This homo economicus species is rooted in
the Modernist interpretation of science (rational) and evolutionary theory (survival or competition)
In a worldview perspective the homo economicus would fall in
A2, it focusses on in and this, looks objectively.
Possessed by objects, physical things.
