1. 6 Themes for APES Human population growth Sustainability
Global Perspectives
Urban World
People & Nature
Science & Values

2. 1) Human Population Growth
AD1 – 100 mill people
1960 – 3 bill people
Today – 7 billion people
Future ?????
9 billion
-Why the population increase ??
What would prevent this increase ??-

3. Largest environmental problem. Why??
Human Population !!!!!!
Largest environmental problem. Why??

4. Most Environmental damage is directly or indirectly the result of the large # of people on this earth….
Q –
How many people can the Earth sustain?
What is carrying capacity?
What factors does this depend on?

5. Carrying capacity
The max. # of individuals of a species that can be sustained by an environment w/o decreasing the capacity of the env. To sustain the same amount in the future

6. 2) Sustainability
Managing natural resources and the environment to ensure that future generations have equal opportunity to enjoy the resources as we currently do today.

7. Sustainability

8. 2 kinds of sustainability
Sustainable resource harvest:
Same quantity of resource can be harvested each year, for an unlimited amount of time, without decreasing the ability of the resource to produce the same harvest level
Ex: fish, grain, lumber

9. Sustainable Ecosystem
An ecosystem from which we are harvesting a resource, that is able to maintain its functions and properties.
Ex: All aspects that play into the health of the ecosystem.

10. 3) Global Perspective
We are now a global society. We HAVE to look at environmental problems and solutions from a worldwide perspective.

11. 4) Urban World Urbanization has a LARGE effect on the environment
Filling in of wetlands
Paving over/through various ecosystems
Sprawling over agricultural lands

12. 5) People and Nature There is a direct correlation between the two
PEOPLE effect NATURE
NATURE effects PEOPLE

13. 6) Science and Values Values Science
Choosing how we want our environment to be
Science
Obtaining the goal

14. Science and values Based on 8 justifications Utilitarian Aesthetic
Inspirational
Moral
Ecological
Recreational
Creative
Cultural