The purpose of models in environmental education.

Do models help us understand complicated relationships in environmental analysis?

 

Yes, they may!

 

Because any of several models reveal significant changes in how people use resources. These uses reflect changes that are important to express in class discussions and your essays.

models | concepts of the world | land and labor | labor | summary

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How best to think about the world.
Simple
Complex
Labor Theory
Merchant's ideas
world is in our hands

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bookstackIf you are overwhelmed by details and the data are confusing try these models --1) simple, or 2) complex-- to organize your notes, direct your thoughts, and improve your expression based on the content of the textbooks.

Keep track of important ideas and contrast that with your impressions with respect to what you read. The textbooks are the key to your success.

The crucial case of forests and our competing values.

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The Simple approach:

Land
x
Labor
=
Capital
Ecological system
times
Human capital
equals
Technology and wealth

 

Because it is linear, this is a simple approach to depicting the way large segments of society relate to one another can both reveal and hide important ways one facet of social organization influences others.

linear model

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Pictured here above is an aerial photograph of a settled landscape, the bastide of Carcasonne, restored from the way it appeared in Middle Ages. The relation of the buildings to the fields, forests, roads and reservoirs is complicated but unified by human use of and dependence upon the settled landscape. The Greeks referred to the collective human improvements of the land by modifying orchards, fields, wood lots or coppices, reservoirs and commons as the habitable area or Oikumene .

These significant changes in the landscape dictated by human occupation are a visual representation of the simple model. "Land when mixed with labor creates wealth." The buildings, fields and woodlands are tangible assets, examples of the capital wealth created by labor and the resources of the land.

 

Labor Theory of Value

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models

 

 

Types of models used

model core
model link
Ecological model
Merchant's concentric
labeled concentric
ecosystem model
social ecology

 

Comparing contrasting two models

 

linear model
pyramid
Linear model
Functional model

related pages on models

Models reveal different facets of related dependent qualities

Social model

Ecological model

most detailed tri-model

round

linear model

sorting device

core

 

Models in history

 

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models

Models and schemas

models of ecological change

model

modelecocore

ecological model

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environmental science

ecosystem services

ecosystem

ecology defined

laws of ecology

biological wealth

genetics

biology

Model based pages:

An Ecological Model conceptual frame applied to social labor conditions
concentric model tied to weal
ecosystem drawn as a model of relations
Ecosystem model contrasted with Merchant's three concentric spheres argument
Ecosystem Model of Cultural, Social, and Ecological concentric Spheres
Ecological Model discussed in terms of wrting an essay
ecological model with three concentric modeled spheres
Model of Merchant's ecological change or revolutions tied to labor theory of value and ecological core


weal explained
A problem in thinking about Wilderness

 

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