TOC
The situation in which individuals use a common resource for their personal gain, and degradation of the common resources leads to a decrease in yield for both the group and the individual.
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
Demand for wood
What is deforestation?
Crops genetic material has been altered
What are GMOs?
Meat production method where cattle are feed antibiotics because they are densely concentrated
What are CAFO/Feedlots?
Mining underneath Earth's surface
What is subsurface mining?
Meeting present needs of today's populations without compromising the needs of future generations.
What is sustainability?
Removing all or almost all the trees within an area.
What is Clear-Cutting?
Can increase crop yield but is high in toxicity
What are pesticides?
Meat production method that emits the most greenhouse gases and uses too much land.
What is free-range grazing?
Restoring land that has been mined to a natural or economically usable purpose.
What is reclamation?
The meaning of commons in Tragedy of the Commons
What is a shared resource?
Costly tree harvesting but removes fewer trees and causes less habitat destruction.
What is Selective Cutting?
Pest become resistant to pesticides over time
What is a pesticide treadmill?
The gas that cattle produce during the digestion process
What is methane?
Minerals needed for daily life. Major income source. Employment opportunities. Help economic growth of a country.
What are the advantages of mining?
Biodiversity, Food Production, Average Global Temperatures and CO2 Concentrations, Human Population, Resource Depletion
What are the global indicators of sustainability?
These forests are storehouses of biodiversity because of the ecological niches they provide for wildlife species.
What is old-growth or frontier forest?
Irrigation with only 25% or less of the water lost to evaporation or runoff
What is spray irrigation?
Farming fish that produces a greater density of fish but can increase the use of antibiotics
What is aquaculture?
Mining that uses heavy equipment to move overburden downhill during the strip-mining of coal.
What is mountaintop removal?
The optimal amount that can be taken without depleting the resource or population over the long term.
What is Maximum Sustainable Yield?
Controlled application of fire to wildland ecosystems under specified environmental conditions that help restore health to fire-adapted environments.
What are prescribed fires?
A combination of methods used to effectively control pest species while minimizing environmental disruption and negative human health effects
What is integrated pest management (IPM)?
The amount of total fish humans can catch and remain sustainable.
What is total allowable catch?
The primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
What is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) of 1977?