Environment
The living and nonliving surroundings relevant to organisms
What is the environment
The theoretical limit of population that a system can sustain
What is Carrying Capacity?
A situation or condition where the production or exchange of a good or service is not efficient.
What is a Market Failure?
An ethical standpoint that views humans as the central factor in considerations of right and wrong action in and toward nature.
What is Anthropocentrism?
A form of applied mathematics used to model and predict people's behavior in strategic situations.
What is Game Theory?
A geographic area of interacting organisms and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem
The idea that increased demand leads to increased technological innovations is often called this by its critics.
What is cornucopian?
A model that predicts economic response to scarcity of a resource will lead to increases in prices that will result either in decreased demand for that resource or increased supply, or both.
What is the market response model?
An environmental ethical stance that argues that ecological concerns should be central to decissions about right and wrong action
What is Ecocentrism?
An allegorical description of a situation in which multiple individuals making decisions in pursuit of their own interests tend to create collective outcomes that are non-optimal for everyone.
What is the Prisoner's Dilemma?
Large sections of land, typically defined by climate, geography and the biota that live there.
What are Biomes
What is the environmental Kuznets Curve?
A market based system to manage environmental pollutants where a total limit is placed on all emissions in a jurisdiction.
The management of a resource or system to sustain its productivty over time.
What is Conservation
Rules and norms governing collective action, especially referring to rules governing common property.
What is Institutions?
Benefits that an organic system creates through its function.
What are Ecosystem Services?
Present-day adherents to the idea that population growth outstrips limited natural resources and presents the single greatest driver of environmental degradation and crisis.
What is Neo-Malthusians?
The exaggerated or false marketing of a product, good, or service as environmentally friendly.
What is Greenwashing?
What is Utilitarian?
This treaty was signed in 1987 with the goal to reduce our use of CFCs globally.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
A transitional area or border area where ecological communities coincide
What is an ecotone?
A model of population change that predicts a decline in population death rates associated with modernization, followed by a decline in birth rates resulting from industrialization and urbanization. (sigmoidal curve)
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
This theorem suggests that externalities can be most efficiently controlled through contracts and bargaining between parties.
What is the Coase Theorem
This ecologist suggested a third way of thinking through our moral oblication to the environment, suggesting humans are part of the natural order and must extend our sphere of moral consideration beyond the human realm.
Who is Aldo Leopold?
Who is Elinor Ostrom?