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| growth in which a quantity increases by some fixed amount during each unit of time |
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| growth in which some quantity increases at a constant rate per unit of time |
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| variety of diferent species genetic variability among individuals within each species, vareity of ecosystems and functions such as energy flow and matter cycling needed for survival of species and biolgical communities |
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| Doubling time/ Rule of 70 |
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| time it tzkes for the quantity of something growign exponentially to double it can be calculated by dividing the annual percentage growth rate by 70 |
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| GDP, the annua marekt value of all goods andservices produced by all firms and organizations, foreign and doemstic operating within a country. |
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| The GDP divided by the total population at midyear a measure of the amount of goods and services that a countrys average citizen could buy the U.S |
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| Environmentally sustainable economic development |
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| one that meets the current and future basic resource needs of its ppl in a just an equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their basic needs. |
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| the ability of the earth's various natural systemas and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions ind. |
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| the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply the people in a particualar country or area with the resources and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by such resource use. |
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| natural resources, capital goods, and labor used in economy to produce material goods and services |
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| material and energy in nature that are essential to the use of human ssuch as air, water, soil, plants, and wind |
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| The highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply. |
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| exhaustion of 80% of the estimated supply of a nonrenewable resources |
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| Environmental degradation |
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| when we exceed a renewable resource's natural replacement rate, and the available suppy begins to shrink |
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| three types of property or resource rights: private property, comon property, open acess to renewable sources. Many common property and open acess renewable resources ahve been degrade such degradation if called a tradgedy fo the commons. it occurs because eahc user of the shared common resource reasons that tif htey don use the resource, some one else will. |
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| Non Renewable/ Renewable Sources and Ex. |
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renewable resources can be replinshed fairly qucickly through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is renewed (forest, grasslands, freshwater, air, and soil)
Non renewable sources exist in a fixed quantity in the earths crust such as coal, oil, aluminum, salt, and sand you can recycle or reuse them though |
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| Pollution Point Vs. NOn Point |
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point sources are single identifiable sources such as smoke stacks, the drain pipe of a factory or an exhaust pipe of a car.
Non point sources are dispersed and often difficult to identify such as pesticides blown from land into the air. |
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| Pollution Prevention/ Pollution Cleanup |
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| prevention reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants. cleanup involves cleaning up or diluting polutants after they have been produced. Same thing with cancer prevent is trying to prevent it from happening as a whole. and cleanup is trying to find a cure. |
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| 5 root causes of environmental problems |
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| Population growth, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, failure to include the harmful environmental costs of goods adn services in their market prices, and insufficient knowledge of how nature works. |
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