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Key components of sustainability

Solar energy


biodiversity


chemical recycling


Natural capital

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

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

An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment

Environmental science

The biological science that studies how living things interact with one another and with their environment

Ecology

A group of organisms that has a unique set of characteristics that distinguish it from other groups of organisms

Species

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

Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans

Natural resources

The natural resources and ecosystem services it keep us and other species alive and support human economies

Natural capital

Processes provided by healthy ecosystems that support life and human economies at no monetary cost to us

Ecosystem services

Anything that we can obtain from the environment to meet our needs and wants

Resources

The highest rate at which we can use a renewable resource indefinitely without reducing it's available supply

Sustainable leave

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

Involves cleaning up or diluting pollutants after we have produced them

Pollution cleanup

Efforts focus on greatly reducing or eliminating the production of pollutants

Pollution prevention

Average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area

Per capita ecological footprint

Occurs when a quantity such as the human population increases at a fixed percentage for unit of time

Exponential growth

It is a condition in which people are unable to fulfill their basic needs for adequate food water shelter healthcare and education

Poverty

The study of varying beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment

Environmental ethics

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

Sees the natural world primarily as a support system for human life

Human centered environmental worldview

All species have value as participating members of the biosphere regardless of their potential or actual use to humans

Life centered environmental worldview

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

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

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

Classifications of resources

Inexhaustible


renewable


non-renewable

Industrialized nations with high average income per person of

More developed countries

The other nations in which 83% of the world's people live

Less developed countries