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- Explore the World Resources
Institute Earth Trends Information Portal (http://earthtrends.wri.org/)
and then try the following tasks:
(a) Under the Energy and Resources
theme, go to Country Profiles. Choose one country from Europe,
one from Africa and one from another continent and access the
country profile. Next, use the profiles to compare the trends
in per capita energy consumption for each country – what
conclusions can you draw from this?
(b) What proportion of total energy
use comes from renewable sources in each country?
(c) Still using your selected country
profiles, select two other measures of resource use and compare.
(d) Next go to the Population, Health
and Human Well-being theme of the portal. Find the same countries
and look at the trends in population for each one. What do you
think the implications for patterns of resource use and population
change will be for the future?
- Produce a list of
the benefits and drawbacks that you think there are with the syndrome
concept as a basis of characterizing human–environmental
relationships.
Compare your answer to Exercise 1 for Chapter 14 and the article
by Krings (2002) to give you some ideas.
- Table 15.3 (Top missions
for global managers in the twenty-first century) lists some grand
challenges for global management.
Building on what you now know of the issues and their scientific
foundation, what advice can you offer for tackling these grand
challenges?
- Write an essay to discuss
the statement ‘There can be no such thing as a sustainable
city’.
Make sure that you consider different points of view before coming
to your own conclusion.
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