chapter 1 Flashcards
1
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EVS
A
A way of grouping individuals or a group of people by the way they percieve the enviorment
2
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Ecocentric
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- Minimum disturbance of natural proccess
- value for nature
- self imposed restraint
3
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Anthropocentric
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- Humans must sustainably manage global systems
- prioritse human needs over enviorment
4
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Technocentric
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- world view that cehcnology and human ingenunity will solve problems
- tehcnology will be used to overcome enviormental problems
- technological innovation and eocnomic growth
5
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Baseline Study Ecological
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baseline studies include surveys
to identify patterns in vegetation, special
sites and unique habitats, important
(keystone) species, rare (red-listed)
species.
6
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Flow
A
a movement into or out of a system and
between stores in a system (energy or
matter)
7
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Open System
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Exchanges both energy and matter across its boundary
8
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Stable
equilibrium
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the condition of a system in which there is a
tendency
for it to return to the previous equilibrium
following disturbance
