Geog 100 Chapter 4

Question 1

Conservation?

Answer 1

the view that natural resources should be used wisely and that society’s effects on the natural world should represent stewardship, not exploitation.

Question 2

Deep Ecology?

Answer 2

an approach to nature revolving around two key ideas: self-realization and biospherical egalitarianism.

Question 3

Deforestation?

Answer 3

Removal of trees from forested areas w/o adequate replanting.

Question 4

Demographic Collapse

Answer 4

A phenomenon of near genocide of a population.

Question 5

Ecological footprint?

Answer 5

a measure of the biologically productive land area needed to support a population by providing for its needs and absorbing its wastes.

Question 6

Ecological Imperialism?

Answer 6

introduction of exotic plants and animals into new ecosystems.

Question 7

Ecosystem?

Answer 7

a community of different species interacting with one another and with the larger physical environment that surrounds them.

Question 8

Environmental ethics?

Answer 8

a philosophical perspective that prescribes moral principles as guidance for our treatment of nature.

Question 9

Environmental justice?

Answer 9

movement reflecting a growing political consciousness, largely among the world’s poor, that their immediate environs are far more toxic than those in wealthier neighbourhoods.

Question 10

Nature?

Answer 10

a social creation as well as the physical universe that includes human beings.

Question 11

Preservation?

Answer 11

an approach to nature advocating that certain habitats, species, and resources should remain off-limits to human use, regardless of whether the use maintains or depletes the resource in question.

Question 12

Society?

Answer 12

the sum of the inventions, institutions, and relationships created and reproduced by human beings across particular places and times.

Question 13

Technology?

Answer 13

physical objects or artifacts, activities or processes, and knowledge or know-how.