Anthro 417 final
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- HNWI
- Is a High Net Worth Individual, simply meaning that the person is worth a lot of money. To be exact having investable assets of above $1 million US.
- Great Transition
- a global effort initiated by Paul Raskin of the Tellus institute in 1995 to facilitate the construction of sustainable communities and a sustainable global system.
- Planetary Society
- A global society in which the world is composed of hundreds of regions based on previously existing nations, states or decentralized portions of former states. It is a hypothetical global social organization produced by a Great Transition change in cultural beliefs and practices that produce a truly sustainable global system.
- UN millennium project
- an initiative that focuses on research implementing the organizational means, operational priorities, and financing structures necessary to achieve the reduction of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women
- Limits to Growth
- Study by William Behrens that focused on the potential for global collapse and how to prevent it. He went from 1900-2100 and we can roughly project trends. He projected that if these trends continue the system will not last until 2100. Stabilize population and economy growth
- IPCC SRES scenarios
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) prepared a report on the future emission scenarios to be used for driving global models to develop climate change scenarios.
- Gross National Happiness
- was developed in an attempt to define an indicator that measures quality of life or social progress in more depth that GNP or GDP.
- HDI
- Human development index that combines health (life expectancy), education (adult literacy etc.), and standard of living (Purchase Power Parity, and income)
- relocalization
- efforts to redesign communities in developed countries to make them more self - sufficient.
- Plutonomy
- Economic growth that is powered and consumed by the wealthiest upper class of society.
- plutocracy
- Is a society that is ruled by the wealthy, or who came to power because of wealth.
- Summum Bonum
- The maximum human good, or the “good life†as culturally defined.
- Participant intervention
- A form of culture change in which those in control become members of the system they seek to change.
- Hacienda
- A Latin American agricultural estate with depen¬dent laborers that produced for local rather than global markets and was designed to maintain the social status and lifestyle of the hacendado landowner.
- Minifundia
- Tiny landholdings of the Latin American peasantry.
- irreducibility
- Basic principle of planetary society recognizing that some problems are global in nature and require global decision-making authority.
- subsidiarity
- The principle that a managing body only takes on a function when a lower level body is unable to perform it.
- heterogeneity
- Basic principle of planetary society that recognizes local, regional, and cultural diversity.
- Agoria
- A hypothetical regional society in the futuristic planetary society that emphasizes shareholder-owned commercial businesses and markets, as in the Nordic Model.
- Ecodemia
- A hypothetical regional society in the futuristic planetary society in which corporate businesses are owned by workers organized as a cooperative, as in the Mondragon Model.
- Arcadia
- A hypothetical regional society in the futuristic planetary society organized to maximize local self-reliance, autonomy, and ecosystem protection, as represented by many indigenous peoples and small nations.
- 1,2,3,4,5 is linear or Log
- linear
- 10, 100, 10,000, 100,000 is linear or log...
- log... duh
- what is the United states economy worth
- 13/14 trillion
- population of the world is...
- 6.6 billion