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Chapter 1-Science and the Environment Flashcards

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Goods like food and fuel

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Provisioning resources

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The natural and managed ecosystems that provide essential goods and services to human enterprise

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Ecosystem capital

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Processes like flood protection

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Regulating services

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Nonmaterial benefits like recreation

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Cultural services

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Those due to human activities

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Anthropogenic greenhouse gases

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Aimed at curbing pollution from the release of chlorofluorocarbons refrigerants into the atmosphere

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Montreal Protocol (1987)

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One hundred and sixty six nations met in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997. Treaty was ratified in 2004 to reduce emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases

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Kyoto Protocol

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Variability among living organisms

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Biodiversity

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The study of how the world works (most multidisciplinary of all the sciences)

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Environmental Science

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Doing too much of any one activity

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Cumulative impacts

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Not paying attention to how the world works

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Unintended consequences

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Marked by increasing awareness of the environment

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Environment Movement

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Persons and organizations with a strong focus on environmental concerns

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Environmentalist

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The widespread development of the environmental movement

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Environmentalism

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Deal with how we should conceptualize our task of forging a sustainable future

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Strategic themes

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The basis for our understanding of how the world works and how human systems interact with it (scientific method)

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Sound science

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The practical goal that our interactions with the natural world that we should be working toward

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Sustainability

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The actions and programs that manage natural resources and human well-being for the common good

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Stewardship

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Can be continued indefinitely, without depleting any of the material or energy resources required to keep it running

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Sustainable

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To harvest resources but stay within the capacity of the population to grow and replace itself

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Sustainable yields

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Entire natural systems that persist and thrive over time by recycling nutrients and by using the Sun as a source of sustainable energy

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Sustainable ecosystems

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A society in a balance with the natural world, continuing generation after generation, neither depleting its resource base by exceeding sustainable yield nor producing pollutants in excess of nature’s capacity to absorb them

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Sustainable society

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Development or progress that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs

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Sustainable development

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The continued improvement of human well-being

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Development

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Meeting the needs of the present, but future generations are seen equally deserving

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Equity

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The concerns of sociologists, economists, and ecologist must interact in order to achieve sustainable solutions in a society

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Sustainable solutions

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Concerned mainly with growth, efficiency, and the optimum use of resources

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Economists

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Mainly focus on human needs and on concepts like equity, empowerment, social cohesion, and cultural identity

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Sociologists

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Show their greatest concern for preserving the integrity of natural systems, for living within the carrying capacity of your environment, and for dealing effectively with pollution

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Ecologists

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Evaluates the ability of nations to protect the environment, produced by Yale (1999-2005), evaluated a society’s natural resources and its stewardship of those resources and the people they support

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Environmental Sustainability Index

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The foundation of all science and scientific discovery

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Observation

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Sets up situations to make systematic observations regarding causes and effects

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Experimentation

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(Educated guess) is tested through observation or experimentation

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Hypothesis

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Logically consistent with all observations, can suggest or predict certain events, and represents a valid interpretation of reality; explains the why

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Theory

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The universe functions according to certain basic principles that remain consistent through time and space; principles by which we can define and predict the behavior of matter and energy

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Natural laws (concrete)

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Perfectly valid explanations of data gathered from the natural world, and they can be predictive, but they never reach the status of laws (true but not testable)

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Concepts

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Information that is presented as valid science, but that does not conform to the rigors of the methods and practice of legitimate science

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Junk science

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Wrote a book “Silent Spring” in 1962 which altered the public about the dangers of pesticides and their role in decimating bird populations

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Rachel Carson

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Farmer in El Salvador who organized opposition to a damaging mining operation by the Canadian mining company Pacific Rim. Received the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize

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Francisco Pineda

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The first Kenyan woman to earn a PhD, founded the Green Belt movement that has planted 30 million trees in that country. She received a Noble Piece Prize in 2004, the first environmental activist to receive that honor

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Dr. Wangari Maathai

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The placement of east sites and other hazardous industries in towns and neighborhoods in which most of the residents are nonwhite. Wealthier, politically active white communities get more facility improvements

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Environmental racism

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The accelerating interconnectedness of human economies, ideas, cultures

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Globalization

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