3.8 Human Demand on Resources

3.1 Populations 3.2 Resources 3.3 Energy 3.4 Soil 3.5 Food 3.6 Water 3.7 Limits to Growth 3.8 Human Demand

Assessment Statements

3.8.1 Explain the concept of an eco-footprint as a model for assessing the demands of human populations on their environment.
3.8.2 Calculate from appropriate data the eco-footprint of a given population. Identify approximations and assumptions involved.
3.8.3 Describe and explain the differences between the ecological footprints of human populations from an LEDC and an MEDC.
3.8.4 Discuss how (inter)national development policies and cultural influences can affect human population dynamics & growth.
3.8.5 Describe and explain the relationship between population, resource consumption and technological development, and their influence on carrying capacity and material economic growth.

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Learning Activities

CoolClimate Carbon Footprint Calculator

This activity, prepared by the University of California (Berkeley), asks questions regarding your resource consumption in a variety of areas of living. By answering honestly, it will calculate your approximate carbon output equivalent based on your style of living.

Green Energy Feasibility Study

This assignment outlines provides guidance for carrying out and completing study of possible energy alternatives for our school.

Earth Engine

This website displays time-lapse satellite images illustrating environmental change in different regions between 1984 and 2012.

Supplemental Readings

Supplemental Videos

Video Tutorials

This video examine the need for human society to shift its perspective from one based on simply making more money to one where we improve our world.

This video outlines a movement helping to reduce our food-related impact on our planet.

This video examines the unseen impacts that our consumption choices have on our environment and human health.

This video describes how social progress is connected to

changes in human population.

This video examines the different ways in which our

excessive demands on the planet are having a negative

impact on the system's balance.