Chapter I: Introduction to Environmental Science Flashcards
The term “Environment” was derived from a French word “ which means to encircle or to surround.
“environner”
These include living(biotic) and nonliving(abiotic) things that
surround us.
“Environment”
Principle of the Population
by Thomas Robert Malthus
1798, Theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction. This
thinking is commonly referred to as
Malthusianism
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
It meticulously described how DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)
entered the food chain and accumulated in the fatty tissues of
animals, including human beings, and caused cancer and genetic
damage.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Tragedy of the Commons
by Garrett Hardin, 1968
each individual gains much more than he or she loses by overusing a commonly held resource, so its destruction is simply an inevitable consequence of normal and rational behavior.
Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin
A period of growth for the environmental movement. The movement began with a newfound interest in preservationist issues.
1960s-1970s
which permanently set aside certain federal lands from commercial economic development in order to preserve them in their natural state.; controlling pollution.
Wilderness Act of 1964
Acts of 1963 and 1967
Clean Air Acts
Act of 1960
Clean Water Act
Act of 1965
Water Quality
(22 April 1970, New York);
to focus the public’s attention on threats to the environment
Earth Day
In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed into law, which required an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for all “major federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.“
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
The 1980s; Environmental Backlash And Radical Environmentalism
1980s-1990s
The Global Environment And The 1990s
1980s-1990s
189 countries gathered at the United Nations and signed the historic Millennium Declaration Goals (MDGs)
2000-present
The Global Consultation of Sustainable Development Goals
2000-present
a plethora of things, including how a specific species or a group of
living creatures are influenced by their environment or some specific
aspects of it.
Ecology
Environmental chemistry goes into more detail, and it explores things
like chemical effects on different plants, the chemical degradation of
the environment, and the way chemicals get transported through the environment.
Chemistry
as the branch of physics concerned with the measurement and
analysis of interactions between organisms and their environment.
Most commonly, the organisms are plants and animals, and the
environment is the atmospheric or soil environment in which they
are surrounded.
Physics
broadly the study of the relationship between individuals in their context within society – and its application to our understanding of
environmental issues.
Social Science
