Slides of talk presented at various forums on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the Club of Rome published in 1972. This book was one of the earliest scholarly works to recognize that the world was fast approaching its sustainable limits. Forty years later, the planet continues to face many of the same economic, social, and environmental challenges as when the book was first published.
Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Sustainability EducationToni Menninger
Understanding exponential growth is of critical importance in sustainability, resource conservation, and economics. This work contains a collection of practice problems and realistic case studies developed for the teaching of sustainability science and conservation, with an emphasis on learning and applying the concepts of exponential growth. The exercises are designed to foster quantitative competence (numeracy) as well as critical thinking and systems thinking. Students learn to work with tools such as spreadsheet software and online databases and practice the application of basic but powerful quantitative analyses techniques. The case studies are based on recent, high quality data and explore questions of high relevance for the study and application of sustainability science.
This work is related to the Growth in a finite world presentation (http://www.slideshare.net/amenning/growth-in-a-finite-world-sustainability-and-the-exponential-function).
Slides of talk presented at various forums on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the Club of Rome published in 1972. This book was one of the earliest scholarly works to recognize that the world was fast approaching its sustainable limits. Forty years later, the planet continues to face many of the same economic, social, and environmental challenges as when the book was first published.
Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Sustainability EducationToni Menninger
Understanding exponential growth is of critical importance in sustainability, resource conservation, and economics. This work contains a collection of practice problems and realistic case studies developed for the teaching of sustainability science and conservation, with an emphasis on learning and applying the concepts of exponential growth. The exercises are designed to foster quantitative competence (numeracy) as well as critical thinking and systems thinking. Students learn to work with tools such as spreadsheet software and online databases and practice the application of basic but powerful quantitative analyses techniques. The case studies are based on recent, high quality data and explore questions of high relevance for the study and application of sustainability science.
This work is related to the Growth in a finite world presentation (http://www.slideshare.net/amenning/growth-in-a-finite-world-sustainability-and-the-exponential-function).