Unit 3: Sustainability and the sustainable use of resources

Question 1

Define Sustainability

Answer 1

A process of change in which the exploitation of resources meets current needs and will not endanger the meeting of future human needs.

Question 2

What is worsening non-sustainability?(2)

Answer 2

• Increasing population (Usually in LEDCS)
• Increase stress on natural processes and
  resources caused by climate change.

Question 3

What can developed countries do to curb their wasteful practices?

Answer 3

By reducing their wants to a level closer to their basic needs.

Question 4

How can developed countries achieve sustainability?(3)

Answer 4

• Developing technologies that can be used and affordable by the local people.
• Using natural resources without damaging the natural environment.
• Educating rural people in affordable ways to improve the productivity of their farms.

Question 5

How can affordable developing technologies used by the local people benefit them?

Answer 5

They can be handed down to their children to use.

Question 6

What are examples of developing technologies?

Answer 6

Solar operated cooking devices that are inexpensive and free people from collecting firewood for hours.

Question 7

How could we educate people in affordable ways to improve the productivity of their farms?

Answer 7

We can educate people in rural areas in ways that don’t put them in debt.