Humans
Name 1 country near the top, and 1 near the bottom in regards to quality of life.
Top 4 = Canada, Japan, Germany, and Switzerland
Bottom 4 = Nigeria, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran
What is sustainability?
Sustainability consists of fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations, while ensuring a balance between economic growth, environmental care and social well-being.
a system of inter-related production and consumption activities that ultimately determine the allocation of resources within a group.
Primary Sector - Mining or digging iron
Secondary Sector - assembly and putting together a product
Tertiary Sector - Provide a service like doctor, nurse, or teacher
Quaternary Sector - provide knowledge, scientists, researchers, technology support
What does HDI stand for?
Human Development Index
What are 3 factors that contribute to one's quality of life?
Wealth
Employment
The Environment
Physical & Mental Health
Education
Safety & Freedom
Name 3 things cities need to consider in order to build sustainably.
Reducing water use, recycling, composting, limiting the construction of housing on land that could be used for agriculture, using public transit, and planting and maintaining trees
What are the 4 main types of economy?
Traditional economy
Free-market economy
Command economy
Mixed economy
This sector of the economy is often referred to as the manufacturing sector. Why?
Secondary Sector - materials become products
What is a good score, and what is a bad score according to HDI?
Good = 0.8 or higher
Bad = 0.55 or lower
What is land reclamation?
Land reclamation means creating land either by removing water from muddy areas or raising the level of the land.
How does Vaxjo make dietary changes to be considered sustainable?
In other municipality run businesses such as hospitals and daycares the food used is organic, and once a week they serve vegetarian meals.
This type of economy is used in traditional and indigenous groups, surrounding bartering, with little to no waste or surplus.
Traditional Economy
What sector of the economy does fishing fall under? Why?
Primary sector - extracting resources from the earth.
How is the HDI score made for countries?
The HDI is a measurement tool used by United Nations Development Programme to quantify a country’s average achievements in 3 basic dimensions.
Health - long healthy living
Knowledge - education rates
Standard of Living
What is land remediation?
the process of cleaning up contaminated soil and groundwater, removing pollutants like heavy metals, hydrocarbons, or chemicals from industrial sites, spills, or mining, to restore land for safe reuse, using methods like excavation, bioremediation, or chemical treatment to protect health and ecosystems.
What type of fuel is used in Vaxjo Sweden to be fuel vehicles? What is it made from?
The city also uses biogas to fuel buses and other city owner vehicles. This biogas is created from organic food waste and water waste sludge.
Why is it theoretically impossible to have a free market economy?
What sector of the economy is the service sector, like real estate agents?
Tertiary sector
What is the most popular type of economy?
Mixed Economy
What is the difference between Standard of Living and Quality of Life?
Standard of living is the material well being of the average person in a given population.
Quality of life on the other hand is overall well-being and happiness, including access to school, work opportunities, absence of military conflict or threats, as well as good physical and emotional health.
Europe’s self-proclaimed greenest city?
Vaxjo, Sweden
What is the difference between command economy and a mixed economy?
Command Economy is also known as a Centrally Planned Economy because the central, or national, government plans the economy. Generally, communist states have command economies,
Mixed Economy combines elements of free-market and command economies.
What is the largest factor that contributes to economic development.
colonial past
What is the spatial distribution of wealth?
How wealth is spread out throughout the world.