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11 Cards in this Set
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Negative feedback
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maintains status quo, self regulation where if things change they will be changed back, termite colony... WESSELS
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Positive feedback
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amplifies the systems behavior in directional, accumulative way, melting ice caps (positive feedback in the polar climatic system), totally new mode of behavior. WESSELS
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Bifurcation
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point at which a complex system jumps into a new behavioral pattern, earthquake, revolution afters years of opression
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Dynamic equilibrium
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When photosynthesis and respiration are equal and growth stops
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Neoclassical economist
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belief that technology will always be ahead of resource depletion, waste generation 1. material progress-track GDP 2. Linear model of progress-counts on predictability and no change
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Definition
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development that meets the needs of the present without compromising future generation's ability to meet their own needs -from Brutland
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Rene DesCartes
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Age of reasoning- "man is separate from nature"
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John Locke
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Age of reasoning- democracy "right to life, liberty, and property"
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Adam Smith
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Age of reasoning- capitalism "self interest equals efficient distribution of resources"
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Karl Marx
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-distribution of wealth, faith in progress and growth, believed in population growth, progressive(left)
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Thomas Malthus
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Darwins theory of natural selection, conservative
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