Vocab I
What is "A law passed by Congress or a state legislature that authorizes agencies to act?"
Statute
What river caught fire in 1969 and caused environmental outcries?
Cuyahoga River
What lens primarily examines the financial costs and benefits associated with environmental policies and resource management?
Economics
If you are studying nutria rat populations and their effect on the local food-webs, what lens would you primarily use?
ecological
What term describes "A method to weigh total expected costs and benefits of a rule or policy?"
cost-benefits analysis
What is "A binding rule written by an agency (e.g., EPA, LDEQ) to implement a statute?"
Regulation
What massive event (or day), headlined by thousands if not millions protesting on behalf of the environment, is seen as key to the start of the environmentalist movement?
Earth Day
What lens primarily studies how rules are created, debated, implemented, and enforced at local, national, and global levels?
Policy/Government
A team studied acid rain in north Louisiana by measuring sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from nearby factories. They analyzed how these gases combined with water in the atmosphere. Which lens would primarily be used to analyze the acidic nature of the rain?
Chemistry
The area where science, law, and the choices of society meet is known as what?
Environmental policy
What are "Actions government takes to ensure compliance (inspections, fines, lawsuits)?" called?
Enforcement
If someone is violating an environmental policy, what might they receive to let them know that they have done so?
Notice of Violation
What lenses of earth science primarily focus on the direct physical impact of polluting chemicals to organisms or their impact on wider organism communities?
Biology/Ecology
Which disciplinary lens would be most appropriate for evaluating the effectiveness of new regulations aimed at reducing industrial emissions?
policy/government
The statement "protecting human health and the environment" is a key idea for what topic we studied?
Environmental Policy
What term describes "A cost or harm not paid by the polluter (e.g., public health impacts)?"
Externality
How do we handle waste water discharge permits in Louisiana?
LPDES (Louisiana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System)
What lens of ES primarily examines the processes of the earth directly, like hydrology, sediment loss, etc?
Earth science/geology
Which disciplinary lenses would be most appropriate for studying how a new dam project affects the process of soil erosion and local fish populations?
Earth science & ecology
What do we call the government offering some type of benefit to people or companies to protect the environment?
Incentives/Incentivising
What term describes "A shared system where the federal government sets the framework and states implement/enforce"? This is how environmental policy works.
Cooperative Federalism
What "alley" is an example of an environmental problem that policy could try to regulate or help in Louisiana?
Cancer Alley
What lens of ES studies the composition, structure, and transformation of matter within the environment ?
Chemistry
What is a key "issue" for resource management that ES seeks to solve/make better?
sustainability
What is generally the first step in environmental policy making?
Congress passes a law creating the statutory basis for regulation and enforcement.