Environment
Everything around us (6)
Environmental Science
An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment of living and nonliving things. (6)
Ecology
The biological science that studies how organism, or living things interact with their environment an with each other. (7)
Environmentalism
A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life-support systems for us and all other forms of life. (8)
Sustainability
The ability of the earth's various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely (8)
Natural Capital
The natural resources and natural services that keep us and other forms of life alive and support our economies (9)
Solar Capital
Supports that natural capital with energy from the sun(9)
Environmentally Sustainable Society
The society that meets the current and future basic resources needs of its people in a just and equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their basic needs(9)
Pollution
anything in the Environment that is harmful to ones health, survival or activities harmful to ones health. (16)
Point Source
Single, indefinable sources (16)
Nonpoint Sources
dispersed and often difficult to find(16)
Pollution Cleanup/Output Pollution Control
to remove or lessen the pollution(17)
Pollution Prevention/Input Pollution Control
Reduce or eliminate the production of pollutants
Resource
Anything obtained from the envioronmet to meet our needs and wants
Perpetual Resource
Continuesly renewed and expected to last 6 million years as the sun compleats in cycle
Renewable Resource
Replenishes fairly quickly through natural processes as long as it is not used to qucikly
Sustainable yield
The highest rate at which a renewable resource this can be used indefinitely without reducing its availability supply.
Environmental degration
When we overuse a natural resource renewal rate, it begins to decrease.
Nonrenewable resource
A resource that is in the earth's crust that only has a certain quantity.
Ecological Footprint
The amount of biologically productive land and water supply.
Per capita Ecological Footprint
The ecological footprint of an individual in a country or given area.
Reuse
To use a resource over and over in the same form.
Recycling
Collecting waste materials and processing them into new ones.
Social capital
Getting people with different views and values to talk and listen to one another, find common ground based on understanding and trust and work together to solve environmental and other problems.
Developed Countries
Countries that have a high industrialization and have high per capita GDP ppp
Developing Countries
Countries that have middle income and are moderetly developed or low income least developed country that per capita GDP is slowly declining
Economic Development
Using economic growth to improve living standards
Environment
anything around us
Environmental Ethics
Are beliefs of what is right and wrong of how we treat our environment
Exponential Growth
When quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time
Gross domestic product (GDP)
The annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations, foreign and domestic, operating within a country
Per Capita GDP
A measure of the amount of good and services that a country's average citizen can buy