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| Gave the president the authority to establish forest reserves on public land. |
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| Utilitarian Conservationist |
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| A person who values natural resources because of their usefulness for practical purposes but uses them sensibly and carefully. |
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| Biocentric Preservationist |
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| A person who believes in protecting nature because all forms of life deserve respect and consideration. |
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| Allowed the president to set aside monuments sites that had scientific, historic, or prehistoric importance. |
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| Environmental Protection Agency |
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| National Environmental Policy Act, stated that the gov't must consider the enviro impact of a proposed federal action (e.g. highway, dam construction). NEPA established the Council on Enviro Quality to monitor required EIS and report directly to the president. |
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| Environmental Impact Statements, NEPA initiated serious environmental protection (instigates lawful actions) |
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| The process of evaluating and presenting to decision makers the relative benefits and costs of various alternatives. |
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| Is the study of how people use their limited resources to try to satisfy their unlimited wants. |
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| All of Earth’s resources and processes that sustain living organisms. |
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| The total income of a nation for a given year. |
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| The consumer has to pay for damages. |
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| Marginal Cost of Pollution |
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| The added cost for all present and future members of society of an additional unit of pollution. |
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| Marginal Cost of Pollution Abatement |
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| The added cost for all present and future members of society of reducing one unit of a given type of pollution. |
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| Graph on which economists identify the optimum amount of pollution as the amount at which the marginal cost of pollution equals the marginal cost of pollution. |
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| Optimum Amount of Pollution |
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| The amount of pollution that is economically most desirable. |
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| Command and Control Regulations |
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| Pollution-control laws that work by setting limits on levels of pollution. |
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| Incentive-Based Regulation |
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| Pollution-control laws that work by establishing emission targets and providing industries with incentives to reduce emissions. |
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| Marketable waste-discharge permits |
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| Allows the holder to emit a specified amount of a given pollutant. |
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| Emission reduction credits: when industries buy and sell marketable waste-discharge permits. |
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| (1785-1851) Painter of birds and animals => aroused public interest of wildlife in North America |
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| (1817-1862) Writer who observed nature and an advocate for non-materialistic life |
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| (1801-1882) Farmer, linguist, dipolomat, and author of Man and Nature (talks of global enviro change) |
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| (1858-1919) used the general revision act and put 17.4 hectares of land out of the reach of loggers |
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| (1865-1946) the first head of the FWS, utilitarian, finds jobs for people |
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| (1838-1914) biocentric preservationist, finds the Sierra Club |
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| Founded by the John Muir (national conservation organization) |
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| (1882-1945) Franklin Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps which employs men to plant trees, make paths, and work in national parks |
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| Soil Conservation Service |
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| (1886-1948) wildlife biologist, publishes Game Management (textbook), Sand Country Almanac |
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(1909-1993) "Wilderness Essay"
created support passage for the Wilderness Act of 1964 |
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| (1907-1964) Silent Spring heightened awareness about DDT and other pesticides |
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| Publishes the The Population Bomb in 1968 |
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| 1970 with Denis Hayes created Earth Day |
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| 1970 Harvard graduate student created Earth Day |
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| Frontier attitude - a desire to conquer and exploit nature as quickly as possible, human superiority |
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| A worldview that helps us make sense of how the enviro works, our place in the enviro, and right and wrong environmental behaviors |
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| An understanding of our place in the world based on harmony with nature, a spiritual respect for life, and the belief that humans and all other species have an equal worth. |
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| Field of applied ethics that considers the moral basis of environmental responsibility and how far this responsibility extends. Environmental ethicists consider how humans should relate to the natural enviro. |
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