SCI1100 Basics in Environmental Science discussion
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Topics: (1) Environmental Economics and Policy; (2) Human Populations.
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1.
Describe the primary differences between subsistence, capitalistic, and centrally planned economies. Explain how capitalistic and centrally planned economic societies tend to have greater effects on the environment than subsistence economies.
2.
Define renewable and nonrenewable resources in your own words. Give two examples of each in your answer.
3.
Describe the main differences between a cap and trade approach, and a carbon tax as methods to decrease industrial emissions of carbon dioxide.
4.
List the seven steps of the environmental policy process in order. Among the steps, where would you put most efforts to establish new policy? Why?
5.
How do birth rates and death rates affect population dynamics specifically? When do you see stable populations with regard to birth and death rates? What about growing and shrinking populations?
6.
Use your own words to describe an age-class diagram. What can you predict about the future for a population that has a triangular shaped age-class diagram?
7.
Explain how poverty affects the environment.
8.
Describe the role of women’s rights in population growth.
