Case Studies & Examples
The country we studied to examine relative resource insecurity.
What is Jordan?
What is embedded or virtual water?
These refer to the United Nation's attempt to make global changes to environmental and social issues in an interconnected way (hopefully by 2030!).
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
The ecological footprint theoretically measures the amount of these two resources that a population requires to produce the resources it consumes, and to absorb its waste.
What are land and water?
These are resources that should never run out.
What are renewable resources?
The country we studied to examine relative resource security.
What is the United Kingdom?
This refers to the complex interactions and intersections between resource consumption and management.
What is the food-water-energy nexus?
This economist held optimistic beliefs around population and resource consumption trends, rooted in faith in human innovation.
Who is Ester Boserup?
This number of Earths needed if the entire world lived like Canadians. (+/- 1)
5
This type of energy powers much of British Columbia's electricty.
What is hydropower?
The community we studied to examine inequity in resource access/security, specifically in clean water access.
What is Grassy Narrows?
This type of waste often travels to African nations from the Global North and is especially problematic because of the toxic chemicals it releases.
What is e-waste?
This country received North American plastic waste for many years.
What is China?
If your ecological footprint gave you a number like "4.5", the number would be measuring this.
What are earths?
This is a downside of solar energy.
Lack of energy incoming at night OR some parts of the world are unsuitable OR technology is expensive to start up.
This American state uses around half of its water supply on agriculture.
What is California?
Increased consumption of red meat and increased energy use is a result of this global economic shift.
What is the growing global middle class?
This hyphenated word describes a pessimistic perspective around population and resource consumption trends, adapted to today's world.
What is Neo-Malthusian?
The ecological footprint communicates consumption using unit of measurement.
What are global hectares?
Fossil fuels are an example of this type of resource.
What are non-renewable or finite resources?
A dam causing geopolitical conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt.
What is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam?
The increasing industrialization of this sector leads to widespread land use.
What is agriculture?
This is an example of resource stewardship--a more balanced view around population and resource consumption trends. It refers to waste reduction through reuse and regeneration.
What is the circular economy?
This term refers to the date each year when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what the earth can regenerate in that same year.
What is Earth Overshoot Day?
This is the controversial process of injecting high-pressure liquid into the ground to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas.