Shortcuts and Solution Stimulators for Most Important Overall Environmental Information:

The idea with personal sustainability is that each person, business and organisation buys one of those $2 mini year planners (the 7 days per 2 pages one), and, by 2050, adds 10,000 small % improvements to the largest sources of sustainability risks by 2050.

This is literally equal to 7 small %s per week (e.g. to research, apply or add a % of a solution to 7 small things over 30 or 45 minutes per week, or 1 thing where you make 7 small % leaps forward).

You could combine this together with climate change, which is one of the most important world sustainability problems.

The idea is Not to fill up each day’s square- the idea is to write the days date and either put a tick next to it if you’re learning something important (so one day’s square might have a full week of dates and ticks in it, together with information).

And one of the main motivational ideas is to do two tracks… to do a small % for each date from today, and to do a second track that starts with the 31/12/2050 and works backwards- this way, if you do more than this week’s small 7 %s, that anything extra goes into the second track of working backwards from the 31/12/2050 (a small % at a time).

And to do around at least 7 small %s per week for something you could learn or do. It’s your personal choice how much time you want to spend on it, and some people are really, really, really busy, so those people might do 7 minutes total. But to keep problem solving this, both with your own individual actions around climate change and sustainability, and for %s for the world. However, to remember that the %s for the world are more important, because they’re a lot larger. However, it is problem solving… how to add %s to find the optimum middle place with all the competing prioritised factors. However, to remember the tipping points.

But to do it privately and in a handwritten book. And if you are learning a small %, to just put the date and a tick next to it.

Ecological competence in a sociological sense is based around the relationship that humans have formed with the environment. It is often important in certain careers that will have a drastic impact on the surrounding ecosystem. A specific example is engineers working around and planning mining operations, due to the possible negative effects it can have on the surrounding environment. Ecological competence is especially important at the managerial level so that managers may understand society's risk to nature. These risks are learned through specific ecological knowledge so that the environment can be better protected in the future.

Environmental studies is a broad field of study that includes and connect principles from:

1. the physical sciences, the natural environment, and the built environment

2. the social sciences

3. economics and commerce

to understand the relationships between them and to create solutions- % by %- for the various contemporary environmental goals.

Large amounts of data have been gathered and these are collated into reports, of which a common type is the State of the Environment publications. A recent major report was the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, with input from 1200 scientists and released in 2005, which showed the high level of impact that humans are having on ecosystem services.

The tragedy of the commons is the condition that, because no one person owns the commons, each individual has an incentive to utilize common resources as much as possible. Without governmental involvement, the commons is overused. Examples of tragedies of the commons are overfishing and overgrazing.

An example of an externality is when a factory produces waste pollution into a river, ultimately contaminating water. The cost of such action is paid by society when they must clean the water before drinking it and is external to the costs of the polluter.

The free rider problem occurs when the private marginal cost of taking action to protect the environment is greater than the private marginal benefit, but the social marginal cost is less than the social marginal benefit.

• The rationale for governmental involvement in the environment is often attributed to market failure in the form of forces beyond the control of one person, including the free rider problem and the tragedy of the commons.

• However, governments can change their policies every 4 years or even less, so when most people regularly do %s to help each week, this helps a lot with fixing problems like these (and not just the environmental ones, but any problems that matter to you or others). Furthermore, you may be helping others now, but you might be the person who needs help later on, and the more people that help, the more thorough the protections are.

Eccleston identifies and describes four of the most critical environmental policy issues facing humanity:

climate change, water scarcity, the population paradox and food scarcity.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine

Most climate change deaths have been because of droughts and food supply…

See the sustainability article and the above…

Success in Environment + Economy + Social Care = Sustainable Development

Success in Environment + Economy = Sustainable Economic Development

Success in Environment + Social Care = Sustainable Natural and Built Environment

Success in Economy + Social Care = Equitable Social Environment

Ecosystem function

Ecosystem function describes the most basic and essential foundational processes of any natural systems, including nutrient cycles and energy fluxes. An understanding of the complexity of these ecosystem functions is necessary to address any ecological processes that may be degraded.

Ecosystem functions are emergent properties of the system as a whole, thus monitoring and management are crucial for the long-term stability of ecosystems. A completely self-perpetuating and fully functional ecosystem is the ultimate goal of restorative efforts. We must understand what ecosystem properties influence others to restore desired functions and reach this goal.

Habitat Fragmentation

Habitat fragmentation describes spatial discontinuities in a biological system, where ecosystems are broken up into smaller parts through land-use changes (e.g. agriculture) and natural disturbance. This both reduces the size of the population and increases the degree of isolation. These smaller and isolated populations are more vulnerable to extinction. Fragmenting ecosystems decreases the quality of the habitat. The edge of a fragment has a different range of environmental conditions and therefore supports different species than the interior. Restorative projects can increase the effective size of a population by adding suitable habitat and decrease isolation by creating habitat corridors that link isolated fragments. Reversing the effects of fragmentation is an important component of restoration ecology.