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Living in the Environment Chapter 1 Supplement

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Environment
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Environmental economics
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Millennium Development Goals
environmental science
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ecological footprint
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Sustainable development

Chapter 1 Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability Chapter Overview Questions What are the main themes of this book? What keeps us alive? What is an environmentally sustainable society? How fast is the human population growing? What is the difference between economic growth, economic development, and environmentally sustainable economic development? Chapter Overview Questions (cont?d) What are the harmful environmental effects of poverty and affluence? What three major human cultural changes have taken place since humans arrived? What are the four scientific principles of sustainability and how can we use them and shared visions to build more environmentally sustainable and just societies during this century? Updates Online

Viewing Guide: An Inconvenient Truth

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An Inconvenient Truth
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Carbon dioxide
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Global warming controversy

Viewing Guide ? An Inconvenient Truth 1. According to Al Gore, why do good people in politics not accept global warming as a ?truth?? (Think about this throughout the video.) 2. Why is the earth?s atmosphere the planet?s most vulnerable component? 3. What causes global warming? 4. What has happened to carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere since the 1960?s? 5. What has happened to glaciers around the world over the last 30-40 years? 6. How have previous warming periods in the last 1,000 years compared with the present warming? 7. What is the relationship between global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels? 8. How do current carbon dioxide levels compare with any other time in the last 650

Climatic Cataclysm

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The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change Kurt M. Campbell editor CLIMATIC CATACLYSM CLIMATIC CATACLYSM 11100-00_FM.qxd 5/8/08 12:42 PM Page i 11100-00_FM.qxd 5/8/08 12:42 PM Page ii KURT M. CAMPBELL EDITOR BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS Washington, D.C. CLIMATIC CATACLYSM THE FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE 11100-00_FM.qxd 5/8/08 12:42 PM Page iii ABOUT BROOKINGS The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to research, education, and publication on important issues of domestic and foreign policy. Its principal purpose is to bring the highest quality independent research and analysis to bear on current and emerging policy

APES 10th edition Chapter 18 questions

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Waste management
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Waste
Anaerobic digestion
Environmental soil science
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Leachate
Municipal solid waste
Resource recovery
Compost
Food waste

Chris Nowak 3/22/13 Ch. 18 Paper, yard waste, metals, plastics, food wastes, glass, wood, rubber, other. 30.6% recycling, 14% combustion, 55.4% landfills leachate generation and groundwater contamination, methane production, incomplete decomposition, settling. The things listed above damage and harm the environment. For example, groundwater contamination lessens the availability for drinking water. Everyone wants to get rid of the waste, but nobody wants to take the waste. We must recycle more and conserve our resources. Good: Easy conversion, lessens weight, and resource recovery.?Bad: Air and odor pollutant, wastes energy and resources.

socioloogy chapter one

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people today feel trapped is oft people feel they cant overcome there troubles people are bounded by there surroundings they become more aware of there threats and surroundings the more trapped they feel the sense of being trapped are due to the changes of societies everywhere history is merely facts of men and women succeeding or failing when our world goes through a dramatic change we either gotta change with it or brcome unemployed or broke people do not identify there troubles as historcal changes people are not aware of the connection between whats goin in thier lives with the corse of world history peoplare are not aware of the connecation is or what kind of people they may become or impacts they may have on history

sociology

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Statistics
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Research
Design of experiments
Evaluation methods
Regression analysis
scientific method
Causality
Variable
Dependent and independent variables
Research design

Chapter two Sociology HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW intuition- is quick and ready insight what is not based on rational thought immediate understanding of something common sense- refers to opintion that are widelt held because htey seem so obvious Authority- is someone who is supposed to have special knowledge that we do not have tradition what has been assed down to believe WHAT IS OBJECTIVITY scientist are expected to prevent thier personal biases from influencing the interpretation of thier result s CAN SCIENTIST REALLY BE OBJECTIVE. jthey can be unintentionally let thier personal biases influence thier work such as kinsey pg 34 how can subjectivity ve reduced scientist cannot be completely onjective best when they strife for the truth

continental drift

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Structure of the Earth
Asthenosphere
lithosphere
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Mantle
Divergent boundary
Submarine earthquake

Turner Burwick 12/2/2009 Period 7 Vocabulary Continental drift - the lateral movement of continents resulting from the motion of crustal plates. Pangaea - The landmass that existed when all continents were joined, from about 300 to 200 million years ago. Seafloor spreading - a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out. Plate tectonics - a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.

Climate Change

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Effects of global warming
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earth
Climate history
Climate
Rain
Current sea level rise
Precipitation
Regional effects of global warming
Physical impacts of climate change

Climate Change IPCC- established in 1988, intergovernmental panel on climate change. 2500 climate scientists, producing reports every six or so years projecting where we are in terms of the environment. Last one was in 2007 Each time a report is produced, scientists are more convinced that climate change is happening and can be attributed to human activity. -Difference between climate variability and climate change, you can get a cold year in the middle of a warming period, but the broader scale is climate change. -2-11.5? higher temperature by 2100. Can?t get it to an exact number because unless you are 100% certain, you really can?t be sure that anything will happen. Depends on CO2 emissions, parts of the globe,

Magnuson Stevens Act

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Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Environment
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Ichthyology
Sustainable fisheries

The Magnuson- Stevens Act Tessa and Mallory Actually the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Sets up eight Regional Fishery Management Councils that work to manage their regions? fisheries. Enacted in 1976 when the issue of foreign fishers depleting US fish supplies came to surface Mostly known for the regulation saying that only US fishing boats could fish within 200 miles of our shore Annual Catch Limits (known as ACLs) were put up to ensure that fish supplies were not depleted too much, or beyond repair, in a single year. The ACL also limited sale, catch and transport of some specific fishes. Acceptable Biological Catches (ABCs) are very similar to ACLs; they regulate fish catch amounts. The MSA also regulated fishing equipment/technology, and vessel permits.

APES Environmental Law Review

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Environment of the United States
Environment
Air pollution in the United States
88th United States Congress
Clean Air Act
Climate change in the United States
Endangered Species Act
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Hunting
Grazing
Pollutant
united states

Environmental Legislation - APES Review Sheets Based on Miller's 11th Edition of Living in the Environment from Ben Smith, Palos Verdes High School ? NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) -Requires an environmental statement (E.I.S.) for any project which receives federal funding. Energy Policy Act (1992) -Extends tax benefits to solar and wind energy industries. Provides a subsidy ($.015 per. kwh) to utilities for electricity provided by using renewable resources.?

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