week 6

Question 1

what is eco health?

Answer 1

how environment influences human health and diseases

Question 2

what is climate change?

Answer 2

any significant long term change in current normal climate conditions

Question 3

what are some indicators of climate change?

Answer 3

increase in humidity, temp over oceans, sea surface temp, sea levels, temp over land

decrease in glaciers, snow covers, sea ice

Question 4

what is economic globalization?

Answer 4

rising industrial production, energy extraction, trade, consumption of material goods/energy

Question 5

what is global warming?

Answer 5

an example of climate change. it is a rise in average global temp

Question 6

what is a serious impact of climate change?

Answer 6

how climate change will impact water resources bc it is tied to other resources and social issues like food supply, health, industry, transportation, ecosystem integrity

Question 7

what are greenhouse gases?

Answer 7

gases in Earth’s atmosphere that traps warm air heated by the Sun

Question 8

what is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 8

GHGs in atmosphere preventing some of the heat from returning directly to space causing a warmer planet

Question 9

what are the three pollution sources?

Answer 9

point source (pollutants released from a single source), hazardous waste (any waste material that is harmful to the environment and humans), non-point source (diffuse like fertilizers or animal waste or animal operations for food production that contaminated water)

Question 10

what are the 4 environmental principles?

Answer 10

everything is connected, everything has to go somewhere, impact is proportional to dose, todays solution may become tomorrows problem

Question 11

how does climate change impact health?

Answer 11

increases malnutrition, increase of disease and injury, changes range of infectious disease vectors, malaria, increase of diarrheal diseases, increase in cardio-respiratory diseases

Question 12

what are the environmental indicators?

Answer 12

air and climate, water, nature

Question 13

what is a ecological footprint?

Answer 13

measure of natural resources needed to produce resources we consume and absorb the waste we make

Question 14

how do droughts impact health?

Answer 14

starvation/malnutrition (water supplies dry, food becomes scarce)

poor hygiene (not having clean fresh water)

water is contaminated

dry weather affects disease-carrying rodents

Question 15

what are the human factors to climate change?

Answer 15

agriculture, deforestation, habitat fragmentation, sprawl/urbanization, water control

Question 16

who is at risk of climate change?

Answer 16

women and children, children, elderly, poor

Question 17

what is environmental racism?

Answer 17

policies that place low-income and POC communities in polluting facilities (like power plants, methane gas pipelines, infrastructure) that leads to greater risk of serious health problems

Question 18

what are the canadian government agencies involved?

Answer 18

health canada, public health agency of canada, environment canada

Question 19

what are the provincial government agencies involved?

Answer 19

environment ministry, health ministry, local and regional boards of health

Question 20

what is the current global situation?

Answer 20

depletions of resources, massive extinction of species, gap between rich and poor is widening, rise in human population

Question 21

what is environmental justice?

Answer 21

reality that costs of environmental damage will affect certain groups the most and put those groups at greater risk of disease and injury

Question 22

what are the 4 R’s in environmental pollution?

Answer 22

reduce, reuse, recycle, recover