Ecological footprint

Sustainability provides the idea that the three pillars, social, economic, and environmental sustainability must all work together to thrive. Without these three pillars working together, nothing can live out to its full potential. The idea of maintaining this sustainability appears in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. In this story, the protagonist, George dreams of living on a subsistence farm with companion. Throughout the novel, many people join in on the dream, making it more realistic. The…

The leading scientific principle that drives all environmental and ecosystem management decisions are sustainability. Sustainability is defined by Miller & Spoolman, (2009) as the “Ability of earth’s various systems, including human cultural systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely.” Applying this definition to ecology, there are four scientific principles of sustainability that highlight how the ecosystem has naturally sustained itself for…

Wambaugh, Martinez, McNeil, and Rogers (1999) conducted a study to replicate and expand upon the findings of the study by Wambaugh et al. (1998). They investigated response generalization and maintenance effects of SPT for trained and untrained words. Additionally, the authors attempted to determine whether SPT could result in the overgeneralization of targeted sounds to the production of untrained or previously trained phonemes (e.g., if training the production of /k/ would result in the…

Sustainability and tourism are two different terms but are inter-related. Sustainability and tourism should go hand in hand in order to maintain the ecological balance on the earth thus making the planet safer from any kind of harm occurring due to any tourist activities. Sustainability refers to the ability of sustaining the environment by not being harmful to environment and its resources. On the other hand, tourism comprises all the activities of an individual or a group of individuals while…

Erin Allbritton BIO103 3/2/17 Professor Van Breukelen Chapter 5-Ecosystems and Living Organisms 1. How do biologists define evolution? Biologists define evolution as the cumulative genetic changes that occur in a population of organisms over time. 2. What are Darwin’s four premises of evolution by natural selection? 1. High Productive Capacity- Each species produce more offspring than will survive to maturity. 2. Heritable…

Question and Theory: The study of “Saving the Last for Best: A Positivity Bias for End Experiences” by O’Brien and Ellsworth is based on the theory that human beings go through final experiences on a daily basis. These authors used examples such as book endings and graduations among others to reveal that when people are aware of the signs leading to the conclusion of a last moment they will recognize its value in a more favorable way. The study asks the question: How does telling individuals the…

Brofenbrenner is an American developmental psychologist who is best known for his Ecological Systems Theory of child development. This theory “focuses on broad, interconnected influences on human development. It proposes that we can best explain development in terms of the interactions between individuals and the environments in which they live (Mossler, 2013, Chapter 2, Section 2.6, Urie Bronfenbrenner and the Ecological Systems Theory,” para 1). While reviewing the Looking into the Past…

environment, and values. Sociologists are able to form theories about human development based on their studies of one or numerous factors. One of these theories derives from Urie Bronfenbenner, a sociologist from the 1980’s; it is called the ecological theory. The ecological theory was Bronfenbrenner’s idea stating that human development is shaped by five interrelated systems in the social environment (Arnett, 2016). Although all five systems are relevant to his theory, the two most direct…

Throughout life each and every individual goes through an event, a theme, or a crisis in their life. For me this specific time would have been an event that changed my life. They always said that bad things happened in groups of threes, and for my life, it happened in fours. On January 18th of 2013, I got the tragic news that my grandfather had passed away due to a heart attack. Death for anyone is especially hard, however for me, his death was just the beginning of a yearlong curse of bad…

Urie Bronfenbrenner is an American psychologist who developed the Ecological system theory. His ecological system theory consists of four systems; micro-system, meso-system, exo-system, and macro-system. Similarly, Bronfenbrenner explains how these systems affects the development of a child. The very first system is a micro-system. In a microsystem, a child is affected by his immediate environment like; home, daycare, and his peer group. Here, the two-person dyads are building blocks of the…