Humans and the Environment
This movement led to the establishment of the Clean Water Act (1970) and the Safe Drinking Water Act (1974)
What is the Environmental Protection Movement?
This is the first step of the environmental planning process, which addresses problems associated with human-environment interactions.
What is setting goals and objectives?
Planning that works best in small groups of 15 or less.
What is Collaborative Planning?
A land use tool that graphically organizes spatial data.
What is a map?
The first step in watershed management, which is key to understanding the relationship between land and water.
What is watershed delineation?
This movement originated from toxic landfills in low-income areas.
What is the Environmental Justice Movement?
A planning approach that involves taking smaller, sequential actions.
What is an incremental planning approach?
This is a local example of a collaborative planning approach.
What is the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, a Wildfire Management Plan, or the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Agency?
Soil consists of inorganic minerals, organic matter, air, water, and dissolved nutrients. This soil characteristic most strongly influences permeability.
What is texture?
Surfaces that prevent water infiltration into the ground plane.
What are impervious surfaces?
This movement seeks to make urban areas greener, more livable, and less auto-centric.
What is the Sustainable Communities Movement?
Planners play many roles including technician, regulator, negotiator, political adviser, facilitator, designer, and advocate. This role focuses on finding common ground among stakeholders.
What is a facilitator?
Collaborative planning involves citizen participation, ranging from active to passive to non-participatory. This form of participation involves surveying public opinion before finalizing decisions.
What is active participation?
This federal entity produces topographic maps of the United States.
What is the US Geological Survey (USGS)?
A major contributor to water pollution in the U.S.
What is (surface) runoff?
The Green Party Movement originated in Germany because of this ecological issue.
What is acid rain?
Environmental planning approaches can be either reactive or proactive. This approach takes action to protect or enhance the environment, such as banning oil drilling.
What is proactive planning?
Those who drive change and those affected by it.
What are stakeholders?
This type of map does not show elevation contours but instead shows thematic information such as land use.
What is a planimetric map?
This is a harmful result of large-scale water withdrawals from an aquifer.
What is a cone of depression?
This movement is associated with Biologist Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, which brought attention to the dangers of chemical pesticides.
What is the Environmental Protection Movement?
This planning movement seeks to counter the negative effects of urban sprawl through more sustainable, compact, walkable community design.
What is Smart Growth and/or New Urbanism?
Shared capital includes societal, intellectual, and political capital. The type of capital uses power to steer outcomes.
What is political capital?
This gauges the potential for soil settlement or compression when subjected to a load.
What is bearing strength?
Stormwater management techniques that mimic nature, mitigate the negative effects of land disturbance, and treat stormwater at the point of origin.
What is Low Impact Development (LID)?
The most consequential environmental and existential threat of our time.
What is climate change?
The decade that gave rise to the modern environmental planning movement.
What are the 1970s?
The final step of an environmental or collaborative planning process.
What is evaluation and/or monitoring?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) components include hardware, software, data, and people. This component poses the greatest risk to mapping accuracy.
What are people?
This program protects vulnerable groundwater supplies by managing land use near public drinking wells.
What is the Wellhead Protection Program (WHP)?