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| 10770502823 | Biodiversity | the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. | 0 | |
| 10770508043 | Biocapacity | the capacity of a given biologically productive area to generate an on-going supply of renewable resources and to absorb its spillover wastes. | 1 | |
| 10770546670 | Biomimicry | the design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes. | 2 | |
| 10770562087 | chemical cycling | the transfer of materials within the ecosystem | 3 | |
| 10770653965 | earth-centered environmental worldview | holds that we are part of, and dependent on, nature and that the earth's life-support system exists for all species, not just for us | 4 | |
| 10770664756 | ecological footprint | the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources. | 5 | |
| 10770682690 | ecology | the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. | 6 | |
| 10770690505 | Ecosystem | a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. | 7 | |
| 10770694237 | ecosystem services | The process by which natural environments provide life-supporting resources | 8 | |
| 10770730773 | environment | the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. | 9 | |
| 10770741876 | environmental degradation | the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil | 10 | |
| 10770748509 | environmental ethics | Human beliefs about what is right or wrong with how we treat the environment. | 11 | |
| 10770804386 | Environmental Science | The study of the natural processes that occur in the environment and how humans can affect them. | 12 | |
| 10770814815 | environmental worldview | how people think the world works, where they fit, and ethics | 13 | |
| 10770868196 | Environmentalism | concern about and action aimed at protecting the environment. | 14 | |
| 10770898896 | environmentally sustainable society | one that meets the current and future basic resource needs of its people in a just and equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their basic needs | 15 | |
| 10770908612 | exhaustible resource | a natural resource that does not renew itself and so is available in a finite amount, such as oil or copper ore | 16 | |
| 10770939986 | exponential growth | growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size. | 17 | |
| 10770946385 | Full-cost pricing | a practice where the price of a product is calculated by a firm on the basis of its direct costs per unit of output plus a markup to cover overhead costs and profits | 18 | |
| 10771001163 | Human-centered environmental worldview | sees the natural world primarily as a support system for human life | 19 | |
| 10771015513 | inexhaustible resource | natural resource that will not run out, no matter how much of it people use | 20 | |
| 10771019045 | less developed countries | a developing country with a low level of industrializationa very high fertility rate, very high infant mortality rate and a very low per capital income | 21 | |
| 10771022617 | Life-centered environmental worldview | all species have value as participating members of the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to humans | 22 | |
| 10771025445 | More Developed Country | A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development. | 23 | |
| 10771035267 | natural capital | the world's stocks of natural assets which include geology, soil, air, water and all living things | 24 | |
| 10771049326 | natural capital degradation | occurs when human activities use renewable resources faster than they can be replenished | 25 | |
| 10771060537 | natural income | the annual yield from such sources of natural capital - timber, ores, fish and plants, respectively, relative to the examples above. | 26 | |
| 10771074343 | natural resources | materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain. | 27 | |
| 10771082051 | nonrenewable resource | A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame. | 28 | |
| 10771090241 | nutrient cyling | the movement and exchange of organic and inorganic matter back into the production of matte | 29 | |
| 10771116367 | per capita ecological footprint | a nation's total Ecological Footprint divided by the total population of the nation. | 30 | |
| 10771122785 | poverty | the state of being extremely poor | 31 | |
| 10771148896 | renewable resource | a resource which can be used repeatedly and replaced naturally | 32 | |
| 10771152767 | resource | a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively. | 33 | |
| 10771161814 | scientific principles of sustainability | dependence on solar energy, biodiversity, chemical cycling | 34 | |
| 10771174004 | solar energy | radiant energy emitted by the sun. | 35 | |
| 10771179627 | sustainability | the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level. | 36 | |
| 10771185824 | revolution | a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. | 37 | |
| 10771193779 | sustainable yield | The sustainable yield of natural capital is the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, i.e. the surplus required to maintain ecosystem services at the same or increasing level over time. | 38 |
