Coexist
The most sustainable form of animal agriculture.
What is Free Range Grazing?
Rock or aggregation containing an economically valuable mineral.
What is Ore?
This form of overharvesting results in the loss of a fishery.
What is Overfishing?
This form of destructive forest (mis)management is meant primarily to clear land with a side effect of providing timber.
What is Clearcutting?
One of the problems with these types of domesticated agriculture organisms is very limited genetic diversity especially with the gene that has been changed.
What are Genetically Modified Organisms?
Although this is the most sustainable type of irrigation, it is also the most expensive.
What is Drip Irrigation?
Shaft, Slope, and Drift Mining are ways to extract ore that is deep underground. This group of mineral extracting methods are all examples of this.
What is Subsurface Mining?
An example of a situation described by this concept is when people take as many trees for timber as possible from a shared forest leading to loss of the forest.
What is a Tragedy of the Commons?
This form of processed wood, usually used for construction, is made from timber harvested from forests.
What is Lumber?
Among the changes brought about during the early to mid 20th century were chemical use, modern irrigation, and agricultural breeding.
What is the Green Revolution?
This is a measure of the resource utilization of a person or an organized group of people.
What is their Ecological Footprint?
After Mountaintop Removal, this is the most destructive form of mining.
What is Strip Mining?
This is the most destructive form of fishing.
What is Bottom Trawling?
Aside from agriculture, forests are often cleared to make space for people to live. This term describes the creation of city space.
What is Urbanization?
This four letter acronym represents a system of high intensity animal agriculture that, while highly economical has many environmental negatives.
What is a CAFO?
These are government monetary payments to resource extractors meant to keep the prices of the resources that they extract low. These payments rarely promotes sustainability.
What are Subsidies?
What is Overburden?
This form of fisheries management is similar to animal agriculture.
What is Aquaculture?
This form of forest (mis)management has goals of changing a forest to an agricultural field. Resulting ash provides some nutrients to the field.
What is Slash and Burn?
This scientific form of controlling agricultural pests incorporates knowledge of pest biology, use of natural predators, and only uses chemicals in a controlled manner if needed.
What is Integrated Pest Management?
This level of resource extraction, applied to forestry or fisheries, is a the maximum level where nature can replenish the resource.
What is Sustainable Yield?
What are Tailings (or Slag)?
Unwanted marine life caught in nets are referred to as this.
What is Bycatch?
One of the most sustainable form of forestry in which specific trees are harvested in a forest to ensure favorable conditions for seeds to sprout and grow while maintaining the forest.
What is Shelterwood Harvesting?
This describes the cycle of pesticide use, resistant pest development, increased pesticide use, and changing to new pesticides.
What is the Pesticide Treadmill?