In the diagram I have created, I have included the villages social system elements and they ecosystem elements. From the video I decided that child labor, education, health issues, and women run businesses were all elements which are shown on the left-hand side and cooking gas, deforestation, and smoke were all elements that I thought were in their ecosystem. The first main idea from my diagram is that child labor effected deforestation and the more that children worked and got fire wood then their would be more deforestation which also led these same children to be less educated by missing school to do their work and destroy the forest. Another big idea is that women were able to run a business because of the cooking gas however the cooking gas is a partial problem causing health issues. Directly these health issues come from the smoke that the cooking gas ends up relieving.
In comparison to Figure 1.5 from the Marten reading, I have set up my diagram in the same way by setting social system as one side and ecosystem as the other. On the other hand, we do not posses the same elements. Some of them are similar in ways, for example, “trees, shrubs, and hills” are similar to my deforestation bubble. These differences occurred because in my mind I did not picture the words “biogas fuel technology” anywhere on the diagram except as a title in other words, we can learn from these similarities and differences because not everybody thinks in the same way.
Hello, my name is Michele and your diagram and blog post entry interested me primarily because of how aesthetically pleasing it is, how easy it is to read and follow, but also because of some of the similarities that is has to my (rather confusing) diagram:http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/01/27/biogas-generator-in-india/ . Even though your diagram was very simple and stright to the point, you really focused in on key issues that were brought up in the video such employment opportunities for women, health and environmental issues etc. One thing that could have definitely improved your blog post is if you had further expanded on the cause and effects of biogas generators on the environment and population in your summary.
Really good job though!
Hey Andrea!
My name is Dorish and I’m currently a freshman at Penn State University Park studying aerospace engineering. First off, I enjoy the simplicity of your diagram and found it easy to understand as opposed to others where I could not figure out too much of what was going on. Secondly, I really like how you pointed out key issues that I did not see in other diagrams, such as “women run businesses.” In the video, they talked about how women run businesses, especially in cooking, cause negative health effects towards women due to firewood, and you addressed this in your diagram, which is something I wish I had done in mine because it is such an important health and environmental issue due to the use of firewood. Like your diagram, I also corresponded an ecosystem system effect to a social system effect, putting them hand and hand and showing their relationship to one another. We had a lot of the same ideas on what the important effects of using biogas were and I believe this is due to those ideas being the key points to why biogas should be used as opposed to firewood.
-Dorish Nguyen
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