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Checking Your Understanding 1.3

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Perspectives 1.3 Checking Your Understanding Questions

1.      Outline the meaning of sustainability in ESS.

2.      State the difference between a weak and strong model of sustainability.

3.      Describe the features of environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

4.      Outline the meaning of sustainable development.

5.      Examine the factors leading to a named example of system collapse.

6.      Outline why the use of GDP as an indicator of economic development may lead to unsustainable development.

7.      Discuss one example of environmental justice.

8.      Identify examples of environmental justice and sustainability at a range of scales.

9.      Outline how a sustainability indicator can be used at a local level.

10.  Define ecological footprint.

11.  Compare the terms ecological, carbon, and water footprints.

12.  Distinguish between the concepts of ecological footprints and biocapacity.

13.  State how citizen science can be used in sustainability.

14.  Discuss the role of the UN SDGs, Planetary Boundaries, Doughnut Economics, and the Circular Economy in sustainability.

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