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Environmental Science An interdisciplinary study of how the earth works, how we interact with the earth, and how we can deal with the environmental problems we face.
Environment Everything around us.
Environmental Science An interdisciplinary study of humanity's relationships with the earth's living and nonliving things. *Easily confused with environmentalism
Environmentalism A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's air. *Easily confused with environmental science
Sustainability The ability of the earth's various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely.
Natural Capital The natural resources and natural services provided by nature that keep us and other species alive and support our economies.
Environmentally Sustainable Society One that meets the current and future basic resource needs of its people in a just and equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their basic needs.
Natural Income The renewable resources such as plants, animals and soil provided by natural capital.
Resource Anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants.
Conservation The management of natural resources with the goal of minimizing resource waste and sustaining supplies for current and future generations.
Renewable Resource Can be replenished fairly rapidly (from hours to decades) through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is renewed.
Sustainable Yield The highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply.
Environmental Degradation A process in which we exceed a renewable resource's natural replacement rate and the available supply begins to shrink.
Non-renewable Resources Exist in a fixed quantity or stock in the earth's crust.
Ecological Footprint The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply the people in a particular country or area with renewable resources and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by resource use.
Pollution Any chemical or physical change in the environment that is harmful to humans or other living organisms.
Pollution prevention / Input pollution control Reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants.
Pollution cleanup / output pollution control Involves cleaning up or diluting pollutants after they have been produced.
Poverty Occurs when people are unable to meet their basic needs for food, water, shelter, health and education.
Environmental Worldview A set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be.
Environmental Ethics Which are our beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment.
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