Study Guide 1: Why?, Background, What is Ecological Design?, Haque: Why Our Civilization is Going into Decline Flashcards

- Lecture 02 – Why? (Introduction and Overview) - Lecture 03 - Background: Ethics, Foundations, and Fundamental Principles - Lecture 04 - What is Ecological Design? - Haque: Why Our Civilization is Going Into Decline

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“Architecture” meaning and etymology

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“Ecology” meaning and etymology

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Definition of “Sustainability”

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Three-legged Stool Sustainable Development

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Nested Models of Sustainable Development

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Population growth

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Finite resources

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Pollution

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Carbon emissions

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Methane

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Compounding global warming factors (sea ice, humidity, methane release)

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Economic impacts of climate change

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Mitigation

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Adaptation

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Sustainable Design vs. Regenerative Design

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Fugitive Carbon

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Durable Carbon

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Living Carbon

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Environmental and resource concerns

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  • Climate change
  • Ozone depletion
  • Deforestation, desertification, and soil erosion
  • Eutrophication
  • Acidification
  • Toxic substances and endocrine disruptors
  • Depletion of metal reserves
  • Biodiversity/loss of biodiversity/6th great extinction
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Anthropocene

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Carrying capacity/Biocapacity

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Rockstrom et al’s Nine Planetary Boundaries

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Ecological footprint

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Raworth’s “Doughnut” economics

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Ethics

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