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| An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment of living and nonliving things |
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| A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life-support systems for us and all other forms of life |
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| the natural resources and natural services that keeps us and other forms of life alive and support or economies. |
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| Supports Natural Capital. Energy from the sun which warms the planet and supports photosynthesis |
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| materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans. Classified as renewable and nonrenewable. |
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| Functions of nature such as purification of air and water which support life and human economics. |
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| circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment through organisms and back to the environment. |
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| the ability of the earth's various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely |
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| renewable resources provided by natural capital |
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| annual market value of all goods and services produced by al firms and organisations, foreign and domestic, operating within a country. |
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| measurement of a country's economic growth per person |
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| measure of the amounts of things that a country's averagae inhabitant could buy in the US |
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| using economic growth to improve living standards |
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| US, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and many European countries |
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| 5.5 billion people; most in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
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| environmentally sustainable economic development |
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| using politics and economics to discourage forms of economic growth that harm the environment and encourage things that benefit the environment and sustainable forms of economic development |
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| anything obtained from the envionrment to meet our needs and wants |
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| management of natural resources with the goal of minimising waste and sustaining supplies. |
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| something that is renewed continuously and lasts a long time |
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| a resource that can be replenished fairly quickly through natural processes as long as it is used sustainably |
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| highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply |
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| degradation of common property and open access resources due to the thought that if one does not use the resource, another would. |
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| exist in a fixed quantity, or stock, in the earth's crust |
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| using a resource over and over in the same form. |
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| collecting waste materials and processing them into new materials |
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| the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply the people in a particular country or area with resources and to absorb and recycle the waste and pollution produced |
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| single, identifiable sources of pollution |
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| nonpoint source pollution |
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| pollution that is dispersed and difficult to identify. |
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| pollutants that can be broken down naturally |
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| harmful materials that natural processes cannot break down |
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| reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants |
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| cleaning up or diluting pollutants after they have been produced |
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| 5 basic causes for environmental problems |
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| population growth, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, failure to include the environmental costs of goods in their market prices, and insufficient knowledge of how nature works |
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| four principles of sustainability |
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| reliance on solar energy, biodiversity, nutrient cycling, population control |
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