Pre-Midterm
Policy Papers
Presentations
Kimmerer
Water
100

UN group that monitors and assesses all global science related to climate change. 

What is the IPCC?

100

Term from Otero's policy paper describing decline of resource use as GDP grows. 

What is economic decoupling?

100
A drilling method that extracts petroleum & natural gases from below the earth's surface.

What is fracking?

100

Protection, preservation, management, or restoration of natural environments + the ecological communities that inhabit them. 

What is conservation?

100

Water bearing rock that readily transmits water into wells, springs, etc.

What is an aquifer?

200

Obtained so that a person can own their research and an institution/agency cannot take profit from the research done by that individual while working under their umbrella.

What are patents?

200
The primary legal protection for conservation of species; it (a) prohibits taking of endangered species from their habitats (b) requires federal agencies to ensure their actions will not damage health/habitat of endangered species (c) limits aquifer withdrawals & (d) requires that springs have enough flow to accommodate endangered species. 

What is the Endangered Species Act from Vottler's policy paper?

200
The longest running river in India; suffers from extreme pollution due to untreated sewage and cultural practices. 

What is the Ganges River? 

200

Harm of anything in the environment in the name of progress.

What is collateral damage? 

200

A low-permeablility unit that can store groundwater and transmit it slowly from one aquifer to another. 

What is an aquitard? 

300

This term connects climate change to the issues of racism, social injustice, and environmental issues from which it stems. 

What is Environmental Justice? 

300
Groundwater can be withdrawn by an owner of the overlying land without any meaningful restriction; this land owners can use up as much of the underlying aquifer as they want.

What is rule of capture?

300

The process by which methane is created in cattle; it can create less methane as a byproduct based on what is consumed. 

What is enteric fermentation?

300

Mayan creation story that ends with the creation of an ideal human population that was respectful of the environment and grateful for the world around them. 

Who are the People of Corn? 

300

Where there is no rock/confining unit to filter groundwater into an aquifer; groundwater recharges directly. 

What is an unconfined aquifer? 

400
US has the responsibility to cut emissions in a way that protects indigenous people & other minority groups.

What is Rights and Responsibility? 

400

Limits emissions to a pre-specified absolute quantity.

What are absolute caps?

400
Plan that prioritizes actions organizations can take to prevent food waste. 

What is the Food Recovery Hierarchy? 

400

The reciprocity that animates the world; gives life to animals and to us in return.

What is respiration?

400

Sandstones, limestones, and fractured granites.

What are examples of rocks with high porosity?

500

Economic development that is conducted without depletion of natural resources.

What is Sustainable Development?

500

Scattered urban growth that creates fragmented hybrid landscapes with rural and urban characteristics.

What is peri-urbanization from Otero's policy paper?

500

A project that breaks down the waste of hikers and converts it to biogas/energy in mountains. 

What is the Mt. Everest Biogas Project?

500

Native American Prophecy foretelling potential relationships between white people and native populations. 

What is the Seventh Fire Prophecy? 

500

The one thing Hazleton wants us to get out of this course.

Where do we get our water?

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