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- 1INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONThe rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery.
- 2ANTHROPOCENTRICRegarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence, especially as opposed to God or animals.
- 3BIOSPHEREThe regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or another planet occupied by living organisms.
- 4GLOBALISATIONThe process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
- 5CLIMATE CHANGEA change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.
- 6FOSSIL FUELSA natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
- 7RESOURCE DEPLETIONResource depletion is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
- 8COLLECTIVE LEARNINGCollective learning is fundamentally a type of learning that happens 'in the real world'.
- 9INNOVATIONThe action or process of innovating.
- 10AGRARIAN CIVILISATIONAn agricultural revolution or agrarian revolution is a period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Palaeolithic diet, into an agricultural period characterized by a diet of cultivated foods; or a further transition from a living a more advanced and more productive form of agriculture,
- 11REVOLUTIONA forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system.
- 12STATE OR NATIONA nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.
- 13DEMOGRAPHYThe study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.
- 14R-SELECTED SPECIESThe production of numerous small offspring followed by exponential population growth is the defining characteristic of r-selected species.
- 15K-SELECTED SPECIESA selection occurring when a population is at or near the carrying capacity of the environment, which is usually stable: tends to favour individuals that successfully compete for resources and produce few, slowly developing young, and results in a stable population of long-lived individuals.
- 16MALTHUSIAN CYCLESA chart of estimated annual growth rates in world population,
- 17CARRYING CAPACITYThe number or quantity of people or things which can be conveyed by a vehicle or container.
- 18SUSTAINABLESustainability is the ability to continue a defined behaviour indefinitely.
- 19FINITE (AS OF RESOURCES)A non-renewable resource (also called a finite resource) is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human time-frames. An example is carbon-based, organically-derived fuel.
- 20ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTThe impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
- 21HABITAT DESTRUCTIONHabitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered functionally unable to support the species present. In this process, the organisms that previously used the site are displaced or destroyed, reducing biodiversity.
- 22HABITAT FRAGMENTATIONHabitat fragmentation is the process by which habitat loss results in the division of large, continuous habitats into smaller, more isolated remnants.
- 23EXPLOITMaking full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
- 24POPULATION DENSITYPopulation density (in agriculture : standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. It is a key geographic term.
- 25INFRA-STRUCTURE
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