Definitions
Any natural material used by humans.
What are natural resources?
The collections and classification of data?
What is statistics?
Application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment.
What is environmental ethics?
This time period led to the creation of Earth Day.
What is the Third Period?
The probability of a negative outcome.
What is risk?
Any undesirable change to air, water, or soul that affects values, health, survival, or activity or organisms.
What is pollution?
Representations of objects or systems.
What are models?
Human-centered view of our relationship with the environment that places high value on humans and their welfare only.
What is anthropocentrism?
This time period focused on the management of public lands.
What is the First Period?
Hardin’s “Tragedy of Commons” essay addresses the conflicts associated with ___.
What is protecting shared resources?
The number and variety of species that live in an area.
What is biodiversity?
The number obtained by adding the total data and dividing it by the amount of data.
What is mean?
Viewpoint that takes into consideration the values and harms to the entire ecological system (both living and non living).
What is ecocentrism?
This period brought about the Environmental Protection Agency.
What is Modern Day?
The value of things that simply exist.
What is existence value?
Values not usually included in the price of goods.
What is non-market values?
The relative arrangement of members of a population.
What is distribution?
What is biocentrism?
This time period focused on preservation and led to the creation of the National Park System.
What is the Second Period.
This balances the cost of the action with the expected benefits.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
A condition in which human needs are met in a way that the population can survive indefinitely.
What is sustainability?
A group of individuals used to represent a whole.
What is a sample?
The promotion of fair and equitable policy and practice regardless of race, income, or ethnicity.
What is environmental justice movement?
This time period experienced high population growth, intense resource consumption, and high amounts of water, air and chemical pollution.
What is the Third Period?
Lower incomes, agricultural based economics, and a growth in population are all characteristics of ____.
What is developing countries?