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To evaluate the learning, students should answer the following topics on the
seminar:
1. The main development stages of the sustainable development concept.
2. Club of Rome–its creation, development of ideas, main results.
3. “Limit to growth” and “Limit to growth: The 30-years Update”: similarities and
differences
4. Main findings of the investigation “2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty
Years”
5. “A finer future is possible. How humanity can avoid system collapse and craft a
better economic system”—possible ways to overcome collapse.
3.2 Global Environmental Issues
Global environmental issues are considered from the point of view of cause-effect
relationships. Forrester (1971) considered that birth control should be introduced
in order to counteract the processes of exponential growth, which would support
decreasing both the population size and production and consumption. In turn,
Meadows et al. (1972) considered Climate Change (CC) and Ozone Layer Depletion (OLD) as the most important modern problems of mankind. In this section,
the cause-effect relation chain starts from the problem of overpopulation (Malthus
Law) and ends with the problems of CC and the OLD. It is clear that all problems in
this chain are interconnected. Climate Change, for example, influences Biodiversity
Change, and so on.
Earth’s population growth is an initial problem. Its consequences are the problems of production and consumption, poverty and changes in the structure of nature
management. Next elements of this chain are resource depletion, air, water, and soil
pollutions, and, at last, ozone layer depletion and climate change (Fig. 1).
To manage these problems, different international agreements were adopted
such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC 1992), the
Vienna Convention for the protection of the Ozone Layer (United Nations Environment Programme 1985), Montreal Protocol (1987), Kyoto Protocol (United Nations
1998), the Convention on Biological Diversity (United Nations 1992), and the Paris
Agreement (United Nations 2015b), among others.
To investigate the cause-effect relation in these problems, students should take
classes on computers and present their results in the form of a table. The example of
such investigation is presented in Table 2.
Each group of students was divided into subgroups with one global problem
for studying. Then they present their findings for further discussion with other
colleagues. Such discussions help clarify data and make recommendations. Column
“Notes” should contain relevant references.
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To evaluate the learning, students should answer the following topics on the
seminar:
1. The main development stages of the sustainable development concept.
2. Club of Rome–its creation, development of ideas, main results.
3. “Limit to growth” and “Limit to growth: The 30-years Update”: similarities and
differences
4. Main findings of the investigation “2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty
Years”
5. “A finer future is possible. How humanity can avoid system collapse and craft a
better economic system”—possible ways to overcome collapse.
3.2 Global Environmental Issues
Global environmental issues are considered from the point of view of cause-effect
relationships. Forrester (1971) considered that birth control should be introduced
in order to counteract the processes of exponential growth, which would support
decreasing both the population size and production and consumption. In turn,
Meadows et al. (1972) considered Climate Change (CC) and Ozone Layer Depletion (OLD) as the most important modern problems of mankind. In this section,
the cause-effect relation chain starts from the problem of overpopulation (Malthus
Law) and ends with the problems of CC and the OLD. It is clear that all problems in
this chain are interconnected. Climate Change, for example, influences Biodiversity
Change, and so on.
Earth’s population growth is an initial problem. Its consequences are the problems of production and consumption, poverty and changes in the structure of nature
management. Next elements of this chain are resource depletion, air, water, and soil
pollutions, and, at last, ozone layer depletion and climate change (Fig. 1).
To manage these problems, different international agreements were adopted
such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC 1992), the
Vienna Convention for the protection of the Ozone Layer (United Nations Environment Programme 1985), Montreal Protocol (1987), Kyoto Protocol (United Nations
1998), the Convention on Biological Diversity (United Nations 1992), and the Paris
Agreement (United Nations 2015b), among others.
To investigate the cause-effect relation in these problems, students should take
classes on computers and present their results in the form of a table. The example of
such investigation is presented in Table 2.
Each group of students was divided into subgroups with one global problem
for studying. Then they present their findings for further discussion with other
colleagues. Such discussions help clarify data and make recommendations. Column
“Notes” should contain relevant references.