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read the article to answer the questions below: around 400 words for all 3 questions.
read the article to answer the questions below: around 400 words for all 3 questions.
the article:
2- With reference to the Warren-Rhodes and Koenig article, choose any one input to Hong Kong’s ecosystem (eg food, water, materials, or energy) or any one output (eg air emissions, solid waste, or wastewater).
3- Describe how Hong Kong’s urban metabolism changed between the 1976 video and 1997 in relation to that ONE chosen input or output.
4- With consideration to the principles of sustainability presented in the course, what are the biophysical sustainability implications of the trajectory of change continuing to today and into the future?
here are different question with different Readings & resources:
Dyball, R. and Newell, B. Chapter 8 – Paradigms: Ideas that change the world, p139-162 in Understanding Human Ecology (2015) London: Routledge (available from the ANU Library).
Shove, E. and Walker, G., (2010) Governing Transitions in the sustainability of everyday life, Research Policy, 39, 471-476
Costanza, R, et al., (2017) Overcoming societal addictions: What can we learn from individual therapies?, Ecological Economics, 131, 543-550
Additional readings from our guest lecturer:
Draft chapter ‘Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics’. You will be able to provide comments on this draft directly to Dr Costanza at his lecture in week 9.
Chambers, I. et al. (2019) A public opinion survey of four future scenarios for Australia in 2050, Futures, 107, 119-132.
Starter Questions
The following starter questions are drawn from the above readings and are designed to help focus your discussion around the key concepts within them. the first and fourth questions have limit words. however, the other 3 questions depend in the answer but try to be short maybe 50 to 100 words.
- Remembering back to Boyden’s universal human health needs from week 2, for any one physical and any one psychosocial health need, think about how humans have met these needs in each of the phases described in Chapter 8 of Understanding Human Ecology: hunter-gatherer communities, early agricultural communities, and urban communities. What have been the implications for energy demands and material use? 150 words
- What are the elements that Shove and Walker suggest are components of practices generally? Describe each of the specific elements in the two examples of showering and transport they discuss. What specific elements combine to shape your own practices of showering and transportation, and how do these interact?
- How do Shove and Walker view the role of individuals in transitions to sustainable economies and societies?
- What are the four main principles of Motivation Interviewing, and what do Costanza and colleagues see as the main advantages that a societal therapy approach influenced by Motivational Interviewing principles could have over current approaches to promoting transitions to sustainable and worthwhile futures? 150 words
- How do you think the techniques presented by Costanza and colleagues could contribute to both developed and developing nations overcome challenges involved in converging towards more equitable and sustainable flows of resources and wastes.