Env issues

Natural capitol (a la miller) = natural resources + natural services Asset

Sustainability
must live off "interest" of our natural capital
multilateral institution

"Meeting the need=(poor) of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generation=(when?) to meet their own needs"
-Brundtland Comm (1987)

The three E of sustainability
Environmental Protection and enhancement
Economic development
Social equity

People, Planet, Profit

Chapter 2

-science as a process of understanding
-Components and regulation system (feed back system work) ex. climate
-Matter: forms, quality, & laws
-Energy: forms, quality, & laws
-Scientific data
-Scientific hypotheses
-Scientific (natural laws
-Scientific theories
-Scientific darwin

Purpose of social research
Exploratory: what's going on here?, anthropology
Descriptive:
Explanatory

Reasoning Methods
Inductive: "bottom-up" collect data then conclude
Deductive: "top-down" conclude then test with data

Inputs
Flows
outputs

Positive Feedback - body warming up +
Negative Feedback - body cooling down -
Homeostatis - equilibrium
Time Delay
Synergy

The Law of Conservation of Matter
Matter is not consumed
Matter is only changes form
There is no "away"