GEOG 256 1st Edition Lecture 1 Outline of Last Lecture I N A Outline of Current Lecture I II III IV Introduction What do we need to do to sustain what we want to sustain How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Frontier Economics Spaceship Earth Current Lecture I What are we studying in GEOG 256 The physical nature of sustainable cities and regions the social processes that caused them to be that way and how we can go about changing other cities What is sustainability To continue to last to go on have a continuous flow What is it that we want to sustain We are trying to sustain the lives of children and adults when we try to make efforts to fight air pollution It s not the air we re trying to sustain it s the people civilization society etc II What do we need to do to sustain what we want to sustain Nature natural resources waste assimilation eco system services People and Society personal choices education cooperation rules equity Economy efficiency resilience Built Environment infrastructure buildings urban form Achieving the balance is particularly challenging because of the scale of modern society has given us the ability to impact our environment more intensely but fix it at a high scale as well Pivo s Definition of Sustainability Studies These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Learning how to manage and balance ourselves economy resources and places so we achieve a good life for people and other living things today and forever Mazlow s Hierarchy of Needs Self Actualization morality creativity spontaneity lack of prejudice acceptance of facts Esteem confidence achievement respect of others respect by others Love friendship family sexual intimacy sense of belonging Safety economic security physical security Physiological hunger survival instincts sex sleep basic human instincts III How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Civilizations die from suicide never by murder Arnold J Toynbee Rise occurs when physical minorities respond to physical or social challenges in ways that re orient society and cause them to flourish Decline occurs when nepotism supplants meritocracy env Problems for romans mayans polynesians Population Crashes Black Plague 50 Loss China Plague War 50 Loss Native Americans 90 Loss Recessions 1981 1990 2001 2008 Extinctions Eastern Cougar 2011 Caribbean Monk Seal 1959 Cascade Mountains Wolf 1940 Early 19th Century romantics saw wilderness as an ex of the great author s moral perfection and began marveling in its beauty Man and nature GP Marsh 1864 Father of modern environmentalists First to proclaim that deforestation could occur and we could actually cut down all the trees IV Frontier Economics Spaceship Earth Samuel Ordway Conservation Foundation 1955 Man s Role In Changing the Face of the Earth The only way to avoid the limit is to cease to consume more resources each year than nature and man together create Our vulnerable spaceship earth We travel together passengers on a little spaceship dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil Adlai Stevenson speech to the UN 1965 Previous belief was that we were able to consume earth s endless resources with no effects done onto us Progression of Societies 1 Fear of nature 2 Confidence toward nature 3 Aggressiveness toward nature 4 Understanding responsibility unification Arete Excellence and virtue especially in living to one s full potential