The Basics
Everything around us, living and non-living.
What is the environment?
Agricultural runoff is an example of this type of pollution.
What is non-point source pollution?
Louisiana was built via the sedimentation process of this basin.
What is the Mississippi River Drainage Basin?
He is considered the "Father of Conservation"
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
This major federal law protects endangered species.
What is the ESA (Endangered Species Act) of 1973?
Interdisciplinary study of how nature works, how humans interact with nature, and how we can help solve environmental issues.
What is environmental science?
This is the most effective approach for companies dealing with pollution.
What is pollution prevention?
This major cause of wetland loss prevents the natural deposit of freshwater and nutrients from the Mississippi River into central and coastal wetlands.
This group of people believed in little or no management of wilderness areas.
Who are Preservationists?
This federal law was designed to control air pollution emissions.
What is the CAA (Clean Air Act) of 1970?
The biological science that studies how living things interact with each other and the environment.
What is ecology?
Someone with this type of worldview believes that the natural world is primarily a support system for human life.
What is a human-centered worldview?
These two major causes of wetland loss are expected to significantly worsen with climate change.
What are storms and sea level rise?
This American biologist and author's writings connected politics, activism, and economy to nature and led to major federal environmental pollution laws.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This was the first major modern environmental act. Requires an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) for projects with significant impacts to the environment.
What is NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) of 1969?
The ability of earth's systems, including human cultural systems, to survive and adapt to a changing environment.
What is sustainability?
This human-based principle of sustainability involves including harmful environmental health costs of producing goods.
What is full-cost pricing?
These are three socio-economic benefits of coastal wetlands.
What are commercial fisheries, storm protection, port and navigation protection, oil and gas infrastructure protection, and cultural benefits?
This phase of American environmental history was marked by FDR's New Deal Conservation plans and the rise of ecology.
What is Phase 2 (1920s - 1960s)?
This federal agency is responsible for making permit decisions on wetland issues (Section 404 of the Clean Water Act).
What is the USACE (US Army Corps of Engineers)?
Pollution costs borne by society.
What is an externality?
These are three of the five root causes of the world's environmental problems.
What are exponential population increase, affluence and unsustainable resource use, poverty, lack of natural capital value in prices, and isolation from nature?
These are four solutions to wetland loss.
This era of world environmental history was marked by industrialization, and an increased effect of pollution and toxics to humans and other organisms.
What is Era 3, Post-Industrial (1850 - 1945)?
Cradle-to-grave regulations.
What is RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) of 1976?