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| 201933716 | exponential growth | Quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit time Rapid, explosive growth Doubling of pop. each generation | |
| 201933717 | biodiversity | Variety of life forms and the habitats where they live Ex: coral reefs, tropical rainforests | |
| 201933718 | environment | All surroundings Living and non-living Natural and man-made | |
| 201933719 | environmental science | Interdisciplinary Natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, geology, etc.) - how the natural world works Social sciences (economics, politics, ethics, etc.) - how humans and their institutions interact with and impact the natural world | |
| 201933720 | natural sciences | Try to understand how the natural world works Ex: biology, chemistry, physics, geology, etc.) | |
| 201933721 | social sciences | Study how humans and their institutions interact with and impact the natural world Ex: economics, politics, ethics, etc. | |
| 201933722 | ecology | Ex of a natural science Studies relationships b/t living organisms and their environment | |
| 201933723 | environmentalism | Social movement aimed at protecting the natural world | |
| 201933724 | sutstainability / durability | Ability to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions | |
| 201933725 | natural capital | Natural resources and natural services that keep us and other species alive and support our economies | |
| 201933726 | solar capital | Warms planet Provides energy for photosynthesis | |
| 201933727 | sound science | Concepts and ideas that are widely accepted by experts in a particular field Peer review process | |
| 201933728 | environmentally sustainable society | Meets the current and future needs of its people for basic resources in a just and equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs | |
| 201933729 | economic growth | Increase in capacity of a country to provide people with good and services | |
| 201933730 | GDP | Gross Domestic Product Annual market value of all good and services produced by all firms and organizations (foreign & domestic) operating within a country | |
| 201933731 | economic development | Improvement of living standards by economic growth | |
| 201933732 | developed countries | High per capita GDP Highly industrialized Ex: U.S., Canada, Most Western European Countries | |
| 201933733 | developing countries | Low per capita GDP Some are middle-income and moderately developed Some are low-income Ex: China, Brazil, Kenya, Ethiopia | |
| 201933734 | doubling time | Time it takes for a population to double given its growth rate Use "Rule of 70" Divide 70 by the growth rate to get the doubling time | |
| 201933735 | resource | Anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs or wants; ex: air, coal, water, wood | |
| 201933736 | perpetual resources | On a human time scale it is renewed continuously; ex: the sun | |
| 201933737 | renewable resources | Can be renewed fairly rapidly (hours to several decades); ex: wood, water, air, fish | |
| 201933738 | nonrenewable resources | Exist in a fixed quantity or stock in the earth's crust; ex: coal, iron, uranium | |
| 201933739 | sustainable yield | Highest rate that a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply | |
| 201933740 | environmental degradation | Exceeding a resources natural replacement rate Supply of resource shrinks | |
| 201933741 | common property or free access resources | Commons Individuals do not own the resource and the resource is available for all to use at little or no cost | |
| 201933742 | Garrett Hardin | 1915 - 2003 American Ecologist Wrote paper titled, The Tragedy of the Commons | |
| 201933743 | Tragedy of the Commons | Concept written about by Garrett Hardin "If I do not use this resource, someone else will. The little bit I use or pollute is not enough to matter..." | |
| 201933744 | ecological footprint | Amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply an area with resources and to absorb the wastes and pollution produced by such resource use How many Earths does it take to support your way of life??? | |
| 201933745 | per capita ecological footprint | per person ecological footprint; higher for developed countries and lower for developing countries | |
| 201933746 | pollution | Presence of an unwanted material or substance in high enough levels in air, water, soil, or food to threaten the health, survival, or activities of a living organism Natural sources and anthropogenic sources | |
| 201933747 | point source pollution | Pollutants come from single, identifiable sources Large amount coming from an area you can point to ex: sewage effluent, smokestack emissions | |
| 201933748 | non-point source pollution | Comes from larger dispersed areas and are difficult to identify Ex: agricultural runoff, runoff from a housing development | |
| 201933749 | pollution prevention or input pollution control | Reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants | |
| 201933750 | pollution cleanup or output pollution control | Cleaning up or diluting pollutants after they have been produced | |
| 201948761 | poverty | Inability to meet one's basic economic needs | |
| 201948762 | malnutrition | Improper diet and lacking protein and other nutrients needed for good health | |
| 201948763 | undernourished | Not receiving enough calories | |
| 201948764 | affluenza | Unsustainable addiction to overconsumption and materialism | |
| 201948765 | agriclutural revolution | Began 10,000 - 12,000 years ago Allowed people to settle in villages, grow crops and raise domesticated livestock | |
| 201948766 | industrial-medical revolution | 275 years ago Shift from rural to urban society Shift from using human and animal power to fossil fuels Science used to improve sanitation and control disease | |
| 201948767 | information-globalization revolution | 50 years ago New tech used to gain rapid access to information on a global scale | |
| 201948768 | tribal era | 5-10 million Native Americans 10,000 years before European Settlers in early 1600's | |
| 201948769 | frontier era | 1607 - 1890 European colonists begin settling North America and using its resources | |
| 201948770 | frontier environmental worldview | Most of N. America viewed as vast wilderness and resources to be conquered and managed for human use | |
| 201948771 | early conservation era | 1832 - 1870 Some become alarmed at the resource depletion and degradation in the U.S. Urged U.S. gov't to protect unspoiled lands owned by the public | |
| 201948772 | environmental worldview | Your assumptions and values about how you think the world works and what your role in the world should be | |
| 201948773 | environmental ethics | Your beliefs about what is right and wrong and how we treat the environment | |
| 201948774 | planetary management worldview | We are separate from nature and nature exists mainly to meet our needs and increasing wants Economic growth is unlimited and we can use our ingenuity and technology to manage earth's resources and services | |
| 201948775 | stewardship worldview | We can manage the earth for our benefit but we have ethical responsibility to be caring, responsible stewards of the earth Encourage environmentally beneficial forms of economic growth | |
| 201948776 | environmental wisdom worldview | We are part of and totally dependent on nature Nature exists for all species not just humans | |
| 201948777 | social capital | Different people and cultures sharing ideas and beliefs Collaboration Diversity |
