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Society and Environm
Society and Environment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| How much percent of energy has the ocean stored in the climate system? | 93% |
| Global surface temperature is likely to exceed ? | 1.5 degrees |
| sea level rise? | between 26 and 82cm |
| Greenlands ice sheets contain how much of global level sea rise ? | 7m |
| Concentrations of atmospheric green house gases in 2011 ? | exceeded that of nay in the last 800,000 years recorded |
| How long is the lasting effect of burning fossil fuels ? | 100,000 years |
| What is a measure of green house gases ? | The carbon dioxide equivalent |
| Agriculture in NZ contributes to how much of our total emissions ? | 50% |
| What are the three states of water ? | solid, liquid, vapour |
| What percent of the worlds water is fresh ? | 2.5% |
| What percent of the worlds water is in liquid form ? | 30% |
| What was water being used for in the Aral Sea ? | Extensive cotton cropping by 2007 reduced to 10% of actual size |
| What percentage of deaths does malaria count for in SSA ? | 80% |
| What did thomas malthus write in 1798 ? | Pessimistic essay about population growing more rapidly than food supply |
| What is Esther Boserups belief ? | That populations adapt to their new environment can lead to innovation |
| What is tuvalu threatened by ? | Sea level rise leads to migration |
| What is the internationally accepted increase in temperature limit ? | two degrees |
| What does marsden point produce ? | 70% of NZ refined oil |
| What is the goal by 2025 ? | To increase renewable energy to 90% |
| What is the largest energy consumer in NZ ? | transport |
| What is the idea behind a biosphere ? | Have people living within an environment to uphold and ecological harmony with species in wetlands |
| How many biospheres does NZ have? | None |
| What are procedural rights ? | participating in decision making, acquiring information and accessing justice |
| What are substantive rights ? | Life, personal freedom, health |
| Examples of conservation and restoration planning in NZ ? | fenced ecosanctury, ark in the park |
| What percentage of bird species have become extinct ? | 18% |
| What does the sun do? | Warms oceans and drives hydrology |
| What is plate motion driven by? | earths internal heat |
| How often are there major earthquakes ? | 200-300 years |
| What area of land did the taupo eruption of 1886 destroy ? | 20,000km |
| what percent of delta region shave experienced severe flooding ? | 83% |
| What is risk managed by? | The probability of loss |
| What is the mercalli scale ? | used for earthquakes measures from not felt at all to total destruction |
| What is Isoseismal | Based around reports from all over the country |
| Haiti earthquake | poor building structure, 230,000 deaths displaced 1.3 million |
| Chile earthquake | more intense earthquake than haiti better building structures |
| Christchurch earthquake | 172 deaths in 2011 damaged unstable buildings |
| What is macrozoning ? | determines levels of hazards in regional varitations |
| What is microzoning ? | predicting intensification of shaking due to ground response |
| Important food quote | "food from nowhere produced anywhere" |
| Where was the first agricultural approach to farming ? | British high farming creating a scientific approach |
| What was the green revolution ? | International campaign to increase productivity of the land hybrid research |
| What were hybrid seeds introduced for? | Have ideal characteristics, designed to alleviate world hunger |
| What did rachel carson establish? | link between pesticides and declining bird population |
| What did vandan shiva argue ? | green revolution further enhances poverty farmers get richer and it reduces biodiversity |
| What does John McNeill argue? | The system has tied us to an rigid un easy bond with modern agriculture |
| What is mcdonaldization ? | Food coming from the same place that looks the same |
| Why is their variation in the mcdonalds menu ? | cultural divergence, cheaper ingredients, hybridization e.g. falafel in israel and curry in india |
| What are food movements linked to ? | globalization, power, economy |
| what is la Via Campesina push | for small to medium sized farmers for small scale sustainable agriculture and social justice, peasant farmers |
| what is the cyborg manifesto | Sees us as cyborgs because we integrate technology so deeply in our lives e.g. cellphones |
| Changing geographies of health by altering the environment | arsenic in groundwater bangladesh, cholera london, guiyu china |
| Major heatwave in Europe 2003 | killed 30,000-70,000 across Europe |
| What is lymes disease carried by? | Ticks which lead to loss of income and productivity |
| what is the quaternary | observes a period of geological time, the holocene is the past 10,000 year the rest is the pleistocene |
| What is our current climate A typical of the Quaternary | A typical of the Quaternary |
| What is the only constant | change itself |
| What are drivers of global environmental change | climate, sea level, relife, land use |
| how much has the sea level risen since 1990 | 16cm |
| How much beach erosion on hokitika beach in 2013 | 30 meters |
| What are the options for beach erosion | either do nothing or protect |
| What should development avoid | the dynamic zone |
| what is the worlds largest fresh water source | the antarctic ice sheet |
| what reservoir has the shortest residence time | the atmosphere |
| largest volume of desalinated water produced | saudi arabia |
| what is the primary cause of loss volume in the aral sea | river diversion |
| long trajectories of industrialisation | convergence, homogeneity and convergence |
| vandana shiva means the green revolution is | identifying need for new approaches to agricultural science improve production systems |
| what isnt an example of localisation of global food systems cut cross by reorganising | restaurant cooking |
| what is slow food | organization that advocates for greater interest in food consumption, traditions and food politics |
| how does organic agriculture influence biodiversity | variable effects seems to increase biodiversity on large farms |
| if the earth had no atmosphere the average surface temperature would be | -18 degrees |
| the warming of land and ocean between 1880-2012 | caused exclusively by human activity |
| Thermal expansion led to sea level rise since 1971 by how much | 75% |
| green house gas emission profile in NZ is different because | agricultural sector accounts for 50% of our total emissions |
| WHO defines health as | health is a state of complete physical mental and social well being |
| Disease transmitted from animals to humans vice versa is called | zoonosis |
| EROI means | the ratio of energy returned on energy invested |
| Which is not one of the 3 main aspects of energy cultures framework? | eco feedback |
| Dudley seers said development is about... | reducing, poverty, inequality and unemployment |
| Climate change is linked to out migration in | Tanzania |
| Threshold and factor of safety are terms describing | Onset of landslide failure and ratio of forces revisiting vs. driving failure |
| Landslides are important issues for planners | because earth shaking and cracking and a tsunami |
| 1960s landslide in italy caused death of more than 2500 people | landslide entered through reservoir producing wave that washed over a dam |
| Three principles encompassed in treaty of waitangi | partnership, protection and participation |
| What is the coast | a dynamic interconnected system |
| Management option available to cope with coastal erosion | managed retreat |
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