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Key components of sustainability |
Solar energy biodiversity chemical recycling Natural capital |
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It is the capacity of the earth's not sure system in human culture system to survive flourish and adapt to changing environmental conditions into the very long-term future |
Sustainability |
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This includes the living and nonliving things with which we interact in a complex web of relationships that connect us to one another and to the world we live in |
Environment |
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An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment |
Environmental science |
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The biological science that studies how living things interact with one another and with their environment |
Ecology |
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A group of organisms that has a unique set of characteristics that distinguish it from other groups of organisms |
Species |
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A set of organisms within a defined area of land or volume of water that interact with one another and with their environment of non living matter and energy |
Ecosystem |
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Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans |
Natural resources |
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The natural resources and ecosystem services it keep us and other species alive and support human economies |
Natural capital |
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Processes provided by healthy ecosystems that support life and human economies at no monetary cost to us |
Ecosystem services |
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Anything that we can obtain from the environment to meet our needs and wants |
Resources |
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The highest rate at which we can use a renewable resource indefinitely without reducing it's available supply |
Sustainable leave |
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One that can be replenished by natural processes within hours to centuries as long as we do not use it up faster than natural processes can renew it |
Renewable resources |
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Involves cleaning up or diluting pollutants after we have produced them |
Pollution cleanup |
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Efforts focus on greatly reducing or eliminating the production of pollutants |
Pollution prevention |
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Average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area |
Per capita ecological footprint |
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Occurs when a quantity such as the human population increases at a fixed percentage for unit of time |
Exponential growth |
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It is a condition in which people are unable to fulfill their basic needs for adequate food water shelter healthcare and education |
Poverty |
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The study of varying beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment |
Environmental ethics |
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Set of assumptions in values reflecting how you think the world works and what do you think your role in the world should be |
Environmental worldview |
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Sees the natural world primarily as a support system for human life |
Human centered environmental worldview |
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All species have value as participating members of the biosphere regardless of their potential or actual use to humans |
Life centered environmental worldview |
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One 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 resource needs |
Environmentally sustainable society |
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Holds that we are part of and dependent on nature and that the earth's life support system exists for all species not just for us |
Earth centered environmental worldview |
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Is a practice that includes the harmful environmental and health costs of producing in using goods and services and their market prices |
Full cost pricing |
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Classifications of resources |
Inexhaustible renewable non-renewable |
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Industrialized nations with high average income per person of |
More developed countries |
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The other nations in which 83% of the world's people live |
Less developed countries |
