Module 1
These are the three E’s that make up the sustainability triangle emphasized as core to this class.
What are environment, economy, and equity?
This urban concept focuses on infrastructure such as housing and sewers to prevent the spread of disease.
What is the sanitary city?
This problem occurs when individuals, acting in their own self-interest, overuse a shared common pool resource.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
Postmodern problems such as deindustrialization and white flight to suburbs are examples of the hollowing out of this space.
What is the urban core?
This concept describes humans’ innate affinity for nature.
What is biophilia?
According to Krugman’s post–WWII theory of city growth, the largest and fastest-growing cities tend to be located in these areas due to global cargo transportation networks.
What are coastal areas?
This method of measuring environmental impact measures the direct land area the city needs for its population and infrastructure.
What is the urban footprint
This problem occurs when individuals benefit from a shared resource or collective action without contributing to its upkeep or cost.
What is the free rider problem?
The Minneapolis Miracle used this regional policy redistributing tax revenues across the region reduce inequality and support shared public services.
What is a shared tax pool
Pigeons are an example of this type of urban species that thrives in human dominated environments.
What is an exploiter species?
After a city has reached the demographic transition, rapid population growth must primarily be caused by this factor
What is migration?
This footprint estimates the total area of productive land and water required to continuously produce all the resources consumed and all the wastes produced by the city.
What is the urban ecological footprint?
This theory of urban governance explains how city leaders collude with developers and capital interests to promote economic growth.
What is growth machine theory?
This closed loop approach to development ensures end of life reuse and recycle for goods and products.
What is the circular economy?
Urban trees play a significant role in this “R” of sustainable urban watersheds by helping water infiltrate into the ground.
What is recharge?
In World Systems Theory, these countries or cities lack control of capital, but have natural resources and labor power.
What are countries in the periphery?
This assessment method models a cradle to grave approach to measure the full environmental cost.
What is the LCA?
Company towns, which are dependent on private investment and have uncompetitive elections, are an example of this bargaining position.
What is low power?
Urban planning regulations, management, and finance are examples of this type of sustainability intervention.
What is soft infrastructure?
Road ecology can identify animal-vehicle collision hot spots and guide the development of this intervention type.
What are wildlife corridors?
Geographic data derived from quantitative analysis of remote sensor data is classified as this type of geographic information.
What is professional geographic information?
In ecological footprint analysis, ecosystem services such as carbon dioxide absorption are measured using this unit, expressed as land area.
What are hectares of land?
This policy classification type is for policies that are designed for roughly equal benefit to all citizens.
What is allocational?
This is a special type of industrial development that promote industry greening through exchange of by-products.
What is an Eco-Industrial Park.
These regions often show higher biodiversity because of the larger habitat patches and greater connectivity, through areas like cemeteries, parks, and golf courses
What are suburbs?