degradation of carbon & water cycles on human wellbeing

Cards (6)

  • 3 implications of forest loss on human wellbeing?
    • increased risk of flooding
    • drought due to reduced evapotranspiration
    • local economy through parks and education trips lost
  • Kuznets curve model shows relationship between economic development and environmental degradation. the 3 features are pre industrial, industrial and post industrial with the turning point occurring in industrial and is the point where exploitation turns into protection
  • the case study for Kuznets curve is Indonesia
    pre industrial - forest loss at rate of 6 million hectares from 2000 to 2011
    industrial - introduced Social Forestry Programme which allowed communities to manage forest
    post industrial - successful in short term but not long term as government changed in 2011
  • 3 ways increased temperatures affect environment?
    • evaporation rates increase meaning more water vapour in atmosphere causing drought and change in precipitation patterns
    • river regime in glacial areas increases as snowmelt melts into rivers
    • water stored in cryosphere will decrease due to glacial snow melt
  • the case study for increased temperatures affecting stores is the Arctic
  • 3 reasons why ocean health is important to human wellbeing?
    • for food and income, clean oceans means more healthy marine animals
    • some coastal areas rely on tourism and if corals are bleached, dives to see corals on trips will be stopped e.g. Maldives
    • mangroves and other natural coastal protection form from healthy oceans and these can protect coasts from rising sea levels and eroding waves