Resource and environmental management and IPAT

Question 1

What are the things that are happening in terms of growth that can cause a disaster?

Answer 1

• Continued population growth
• Increasing consumption of resources
• Increasing destruction of the natural environment and pollution.

Question 2

What is the definition of REM?

Answer 2

Resource and environmental management is the management of the interaction and impact of human society on the environment.
Many fields interact, such as agriculture, tourism, pollution reduction, landscape planning and others.

Question 3

What is the IPAT Framework?

Answer 3

Impact= Population x Affluence x Technology

IPAT describes express the key factors influencing the impact human activity on the environment

Population= Population of an area; the more people in the earth the more we need and the more pollution we are releasing;

Affluence= Average consumption per person; GDP per capita (gross domestic product) is the average economic activity per person

Technology= represents how resource-intensive the production of affluence

Question 4

What is exponential growth?

Answer 4

Growth by a fixed percentage where each increase is added to the principal.

Question 5

What are characteristics of Hunter-Gatherer Society?

Answer 5

-Food is obtained from wild plants and animals
- Altered env to increase utility
- Depleted the local env around their camps
- Moved on to new areas once current location was depleted
Sustainable not for locally but regional and globally

Question 6

What are the characteristics of Agrarian Society?

Answer 6

• Considerable alteration of environment through domestication of plants and animals.
• Increased efficiency resulting in production surpluses
• Supported larger, sedentary population
• Very sustainable!!!

Question 7

What is the characteristics of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 7

• Steam-engines fueled by coal
• Shift from cottage based industries to rise of the factory system
• Increased production required steady supply of energy and raw materials so therefore there was an increase in transportation system.
• Serious health, social and environment problems such as sanitation and health care

Question 8

What is Anthropocene?

Answer 8

The proposed time period (epoch) that begins when human activities started to become a major geological force.