Human Rights basics
The Universal Convention on Human Rights was developed in this year.
What is 1948?
“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the ____ without compromising the ability of _______ to meet their own needs.”
What is "present" and "future generations"?
The number of "planetary boundaries", according to the film, Breaking Boundaries.
What is nine?
This is economic progress that fosters environmentally sustainable low-carbon and socially inclusive development.
What is green growth?
This is known as a dynamic and interdependent process linking society to nature through labor.
What is social-ecological metabolism?*
*Bonus points for naming the theorist who discussed it?
The UDHR was developed primarily in response to this global event.
What is World War II?
These are the "three pillars" of sustainability.
What are "social, economic, and environmental?"
All the plants and animals that live in a particular area together with the complex relationship that exists between them and their environment. This area is known as this.
What is an ecosystem?
The belief that humans are the most important or central entities on the planet.
What is anthropocentrism?*
*bonus points for explaining why this is a problem w/re: to HR & Sustainbility.
Name the period in the 1940s–1960s when agricultural technology and practices increased food production and helped prevent widespread starvation in developing countries.
What is the Green Revolution?*
*Bonus points for naming WHERE it began?
*What was it designed to do?
*Name three "pros" and three "cons".
There are ____ different human rights listed in the UDHR.
What is 30?
According to White (1967), this is the “greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture."
The victory of Christianity over paganism. *Bonus points if you can explain this impact clearly!
The number of Sustainable Development Goals.
What is 17?
This is the total area of productive land and water required continuously to produce all the resources consumed and to assimilate all the wastes produced, by a defined population, wherever on Earth that land is located
What is an ecological footprint?
The right of communities to control their food systems, including how food is produced, distributed, and consumed.
What is Food Sovereignty?
*bonus points for naming the group most associated with this movement (from your readings).
What is "the freedom from ____".
This saint tried to pose an alternative to the Christian view of "man over nature" but he failed.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
These are the three components of Haglund's "MAPS" framework.
What are mechanisms, actors and pathways?
These are the four major types of environmental impacts of capitalism.
What are Resource Depletion, Pollution and Climate Change, Waste Generation, Loss of Biodiversity.
What is the South?
The concept of Human Rights began here, 2500 years ago.
What is Iraq?
This is the geological epoch of stable temperatures (plus-minus one degree Celsius) that lasted from about 10,000 years ago until the present day.
What is the Holocene?
*bonus points if you can name what we are in, now.
The UN established this to address environmental degradation and sustainable development in 1983.
What is the Brundtland Commission?
This is the right of all inhabitants, present and future, permanent and temporary, to inhabit, use, occupy, produce, govern and enjoy just, inclusive, safe and sustainable cities, villages and human settlements, defined as commons essential to a full and decent life.
What is the Right to the City?
*bonus points for listing two agenda items for these groups.
This was an agreement. between the U.S. and Mexican governments that permitted Mexican citizens to take temporary agricultural work in the United States.
What is the Bracero program?*
*When years was it in place?
*List some pros/cons of the program.