APES Flashcards

14749658359	Environmentally Sustainable Society	Meets current needs in a just and equitable manner without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs	0
14749667750	Natural Income	Renewable resources	1
14749669704	The Anthropocene	New era where humans have become major agents of change in the functioning of Earth's life	2
14749687640	What do all economic systems depend on?	Natural Capital	3
14749690291	Economics	Goods and services	4
14749692060	Economic Systems	Social institution; A method that a group of people use to choose which goods and services to produce, how you produce, and how to distribute them to people	5
14749696135	Free-market System	Supply and demand	6
14749699962	Natural Capital	Resources provided by the earth's natura; processess	7
14749702907	Manufactured Capital	Tools and materials	8
14749705998	Economic Growth	Increased capacity to supply goods and services Requires increased production and consumption Requires more consumers	9
14749713187	Economic Development	Improvement of living standards	10
14749729915	Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development	Using political and economic systems to discourage environmentally harmful and unsustainable forms of economic growth	11
14749742473	What resources can you use for more sustainability?	Full cost pricing Subsidizing environmentally beneficial goods Taxing pollution and waste	12
14749953140	Full-cost Pricing	Includes estimated costs of harmful environmental and health effects of production	13
14749976689	Cap and Trade	Used to produce Sulfur Dioxide	14
14749987901	Cap on greenhouse gas emissions	A limit backed by science. Company's pay penalties if they exceed the cap, which gets stricter over time	15
14750094258	Trade	A market for companies to buy and sell allowances that permit them to produce only a certain amount. It gives companies a strong incentive to save money	16
14750159006	Reducing Poverty helps reduce:	Population growth resource use environmental degradation	17
14750166794	Microloans	Gives hope to the poor	18
14750168839	Environmental Science	Connects info and ideas from Natural Resources, Social Sciences, and Humanities	19
14750227376	Natural Resources	Ecology, biology, geology, chemistry	20
14750230656	Social Sciences	Geography, politics, economics	21
14750230657	Humanities	Ethics and philosophy	22
14750243921	Renewable Resources	Several days to several hundreds to renew	23
14750249682	Nonrenewable Resources	Finite stock on earth	24
14750259562	Three major cultural events that increases human ecological footprint:	Agricultural Rev. Industrial-medical Rev. Informational-globalization Rev.	25
14750313007	Causes of Environmental Problems:	Population growth Wasteful resource use Poverty	26
14750397817	Exponential Growth	Population increases	27
14750412353	Harmful Environmental Impact:	Consumption Pollution Wasting resources	28
14750421011	Beneficial Environmental Impact:	Funds for developing technologies to reduce pollution, environmental degradation and resource waste	29
14750434048	Affluence	wealth; allows to consume big amounts of resources beyond their basic needs	30
14750443692	Affluenza	Unsustainable addiction to over-consumption and materialism	31
14750450693	Living Sustainability	Living off of Earth's natural income without degrading the natural capital that supplies it	32
14750503533	Policy Making Involves:	Enacting laws Enforcing laws	33
14750511577	Environmental Leaders can make a big difference:	lead by example run for local office protect ecosystems	34
14750516182	Environmental Law	Defines what's acceptable environmental behavior	35
14750521357	Injunction	Court hearing	36
14750523371	Class Action Suit	Civil suit filed by group	37
14750528239	Negligence	Damage caused by acting unreasonably	38
14750530753	Statues of Limitation	Limit length of time a plaintiff can sue	39
14750560311	SLAPP	Lawsuit intended to censor people with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their opposition	40
14750575066	Grassgroups	Growing their efforts with environmental organizations	41
14752068580	Natural Services	Processes provided by healthy ecosystems	42
14752071659	Solar Capital	Energy that warms the planet and produces wind and flowing water	43
14752075325	Point Source Pollution	A single source of air, water, or light pollution	44
14752077694	GDP	Measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced	45
14752077695	Per Capita GDP	GDP of a country divided by its total population at midyear. It gives the average slice of the economic pie per product.	46
14752082364	Per Capita GDP PPP	Measure of the amount of goods and services that a country's average citizen could buy in the U.S.	47
14752084056	Sustainability Yeild	Highest rate at which a potentially renewable resource can be used without reducing its available supply	48
14752089308	Cost Benefit Analysis	Process businesses use to analyze decisions	49
14752092432	Discount Rate	An estimate of a resource's future economic value compared to its present value; having something today will may be worth more than it will be in the futureH	50
14752093805	Human Capital	People's physical and mental talents that provide labor, innovation, culture, and organization	51