Chapter 23 Sustainable development

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Chapter 23 - Sustainable development

• UN Development that meets the needs of the
  present without compromising the ability of
  future generations to meet their own needs.
• Development the act of making purposeful
  changes to improve the quality of human life
• Is sustainable development an oxymoron?

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Environment and the economy

• Environmental protection can be good for the
  economy
• Reducing consumption and waste can save money.
• Environmental protection can enhance economic
  opportunity by providing new types of employment.
• People desire to live in areas with good
  environmental quality.

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Perceived economy vs. environment divide

• The Spotted Owl symbolizes the economy-environment
  debate.
• As logging destroys old-growth rainforest in the
  Pacific Northwest, is protection for the
  endangered bird threatening logging jobs?
• Or is it the destruction of the forests that
  threatens logging jobs?

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Costs and benefits of regulations

• A recent government study even found that
  economic benefits of environmental regulations
  far outweighed costs.

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Strategies for sustainability
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Ecosystem services

• Scientists with the Millennium Ecosystem
  Assessment analyzed impacts on ecosystem services
  for four scenarios.

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Human well-being

• Effects of four scenarios of human well-being

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Promote local self-sufficiency

• When people are tied to the area they live in,
  they will treat it better.
• Effected by two things
• Globalization a homogenization of cultures and
  loss of diversity driven by multinational
  corporations from wealthy nations
• Internationalization communication among
  cultures allowing good ideas to spread,
  including world peace and sustainability

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Globalization

• These protesters at the 1999 World Trade
  Organization meeting in Seattle criticized
  cultural homogenization, and relaxations in
  environmental and labor protections brought about
  by free trade.

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QUESTION Review
Why might jobs grow with environmental protection?

• a. Environmental protection enhances the
  livability of an area, attracting workers and
  businesses.
• b. New technologies and job opportunities arise
  due to environmental protection measures.
• c. New environmental technologies can be sold to
  other nations, generating export income and jobs.
• d. All of the above might happen.
• e. None of the above will take place.

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QUESTION Review

• Which of the following does NOT promote
  sustainability?
• a. Incorporating external costs into the price of
  a product
• b. Basing decisions on short-term thinking
• c. Promoting research and education
• d. Rethinking conventional priorities on growth,
  progress, and quality of life

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QUESTION Review

• How can manufacturing become more sustainable?
• a. By becoming more linear
• b. By becoming more three-dimensional
• c. By becoming more circular
• d. By becoming faster

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QUESTION Review

• If a negative effect of globalization is the
  homogenization of cultures, a contrasting
  positive effect of internationalization is?
• a. The spread of multinational corporations
• b. Free trade and relaxations of labor
  regulations
• c. Open communication among cultures
• d. Increased job security and wealth

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QUESTION Interpreting Graphs and Data

• This table illustrates that?
• a. Benefits of environmental regulations
  outweigh costs.
• b. Costs of environmental regulations outweigh
  benefits.
• c. The net costs of labor and education are
  very high.
• d. Education has minimal benefits.

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QUESTION Interpreting Graphs and Data

• a. More people will live in hunger than today
• b. More land will be developed than if security
  is made top priority
• c. Fewer people will live with water stress and
  hunger than if the market is made top priority
• d. 40 of the population will live in hunger

• If sustainability is made top priority (purple),
  then in 2032?