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14 Cards in this Set
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What were some environmental problems of the Ancient World?
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Extinction, habitat degradation
Soil degradation and erosion Deforestation Urban Pollution |
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What were some early forms of Governing in the Ancient Rome?
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Some regulations/ infrastructure put in place to attend to public health
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What were some environmental problems in the the Feudalism era?
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Air Pollution from wood/ coal
Water pollution Continued deforestation |
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What were some early pollution ordinances of the early Feudalism era?
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Bans on urban river pollution
King Edward's coal burning ban in London |
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What were some causes of environmental problems in the modern era early 19th century to present?
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Increased scale intensity of environmental problems were related to the rapid industrialization and urbanization.
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What were some changes and factors that influenced the government in the Modern era "early 19th century"
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-Rise complexity of industrial societies accompanied by new ideas of what needed to be governed, how to govern it
- Governmentality - Role of new Physical and social sciences- ex- Population -Emergence of environmental sciences |
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How was environment viewed withing the framework of the 19th century Scientific Conservation
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Emergence of environment as objects of knowledge, government.
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What were two factors of early environmental policy?
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-Limited role for federal government
-Pollution seen largely as "local" problem |
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What were some new Environmental concerns or problems after World War 2?
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Nuclear power
Rise of Chemical Industry Pesticides, fertilizers plastics |
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The problems after WW2 gave way to what?
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Early Federal air/water pollution laws.
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The rise of command and control environmental government in the US was influenced by what two factors.
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- Growing Public Concern - Rivers on fire - Earth Day
- Landmarks - NEPA 69 Environmentla Protection Agency 70 |
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What factors influenced the environment to becoming a global problem?
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- The Rise of Environmental Sciences
- Growth of Earth as a system (limits to Growth) -Images of Earth from space -UN conferences on environment |
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What was the early approach to Governing the environment?
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The early approach was "command and control"
- Environmental problems were viewed as technical problems, fixable by laws, procedures ,etc |
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Explain the shift form local to national of governing the environment.
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1. Public land and resource management (beginning in the late 19th century
2. Pollution ( Beginning mid 20th century and espically 1970's |
