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Humans and the Environment
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- 1What is Environmental Science?The study of how the natural world works and effects us. Or how we effect the environment.
- 2How do we effect our environment?BAD--> agriculture, roads, cities
GOOD--> Breathe air - 3What is resource Management?Strategic decision making ad planning aimed at balancing the use of a resource with its protection and preservation
- 4What is Sustainable Development? and what does it require?Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
--> Requires the ability to project ie: what will it lead to? Will people still be doing it in 20 years? What are the impacts of our decisions? - 5What does Environmental Science help make decisions with?Informed management, risks and trade-offs, project and predict in order to make ethical decisions.
- 6What is an ecosystem?describes one or more communities of organisms that interact with their environment as a defined unit
- 7What is Y2Y? and what do they do?It's a preservation/conservation organization that's working on preserving the western Canadian rockies
- 8What is a stressor?Constraint on the development on the productivity of individual organisms, population, communities or ecosystems.
- 9What are some examples of stressors?Flood, Earthquake, Wildfires
- 10What does stressors lead to?Stress--> Disturbances-->Succession
- 11What is the mountain pine beetle and what does it do?Type stressor on any forest, it turns trees a redish-brown
- 12What are the 5 Environmental World Views?Anthropocentric
Biocentric
Ecocentric
Frontier
Sustainability - 13What is Anthropocentric?Human centered
- 14What is Biocentric?Species Centered
- 15EcocentricBio (+) connections between species
- 16FrontierAnthro (+) the ecosystem is there for human use
- 17what is SustainabilityLiving for environmental projection
- 18What does I=PxAxT stand for?Impact=Populationx Affluencex Technology
- 19What is "Affluenza"?Environmental crisis are due to both over population and excessive resource consumption
- 20What is Economic Growth?Increase in the size of economy due to both population grown and per capita resource.
- 21What is Economic Development?A progressive improvment of efficiency in the use of materials and energy, with the aim of developing a sustainable economy
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