1.1 Perspectives
1.2 Systems
1.3 Sustainability
100
How a particular situation is viewed and understood by an individual.
What is perspective?
100
The term for the definition "Earth is a single integrated system".
What is biosphere?
100
The only metric that compares the resource demand of individuals, governments, and businesses against Earth's capacity for biological regeneration.
What is an ecological footprint?
200
Qualities or principles that people feel have worth and importance in life.
What are values?
200
In this system, there is an exchange of energy but not materials across boundaries.
What is a closed system?
200
The use and management of natural resources that allows replacement of resources, and recovery and regeneration of ecosystems.
What is environmental sustainability?
300
These are THREE environmental perspectives / worldviews.
What are ecocentric, anthropocentric, and technocentric?
300
The image is an example of this type of feedback.
What is positive feedback (positive feedback loop)?
300
These are the THREE sustainability pillars.
What are Environmental, Social and Economic?
400
This image is an example of type of survey.
What is value survey?
400
This type of feedback loop suppresses system changes promoted by external factors.
What is negative feedback?
400
Enhancing this increases the sustainability of a system.
What is resilience?
500
The image shows an example of this.
What is an ecological tipping point or tipping point(s)?
500
Ecosystems will normally exist in this type of equilibrium.
What is steady state equilibrium?
500
The average biocapacity per person in the world 2023.
What is 1.5 global hectares/person?