02a environmental concerns

Sustainable planning & development – Unit 2:

Environmental concerns

US Census Bureau. U.S. & World Population Clocks.

www.census.gov/popclock/

• Correlation in science• Spatial correlation• “Spurious correlation” >

• Correlation in science• Spatial correlation• “Spurious correlation”• Causality• Causality in the social sciences• Correlation does not equal

causality

Population growth

US Census Bureau. U.S. & World Population Clocks.

www.census.gov/popclock/

Oracle Thinkquest. Retrieved 3/6/06: http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/future/technology.htm

Sustainable Scale Project. Retrieved 3/6/06: http://www.sustainablescale.org/AreasofConcern/Population/PopulationandScale/QuickFacts.aspx

10/25/07: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/gmo/feature/archive.shtml

10/24/07: http://www.nupge.ca/news_2003/n15my03b.htm

Colchester Irregular. 10/24/07: http://www.aspects.net/~softbus/gtra/grafix2/blah.gif

Environment