Environmental Science
This includes all of the living and nonliving things with which an organism interacts.
Environment
This refers to using a resource at a rate that allows it to be replaced at approximately the same rate it is being used.
Sustainable Rate
This type of ecosystem service provides goods that humans can use directly, such as food from marine ecosystems.
Provisioning
This refers to the amount of a resource that is available for people to use.
Supply
These are rules created to regulate the effects of human activities on the environment.
Environmental Policies
This field examines how humans affect the environment and ways to address environmental problems.
Environmental Science
This major change occurred when humans began growing crops, raising livestock, and living in permanent communities.
Agricultural Revolution
This type of ecosystem service includes benefits such as flood control and improving air, soil, and water quality.
Regulating
This refers to the number of people willing to purchase or use a resource.
Demand
This type of environmental policy focuses on punishment when rules are not followed, such as laws limiting pollution.
Regulation
This field focuses on the relationships between organisms and their natural environments.
Ecology
This major change brought machinery and advances in medicine, agriculture, and technology.
Industrial Revolution
This type of ecosystem service provides non-material benefits such as recreation and water sports.
Cultural
When supply is high and demand is low, this generally happens to the price of a resource.
Decreases
This type of environmental policy encourages environmentally friendly behavior through tools such as tax breaks or government payments.
Incentive
These resources can naturally be replaced within a relatively short period of time.
Renewable Resources
This measurement represents the demand that a person or group places on Earth's natural resources, including resources needed to dispose of their waste.
Ecological Footprint
This type of ecosystem service includes processes that allow ecosystems to function, such as providing oxygen and organic matter for decomposers.
Supporting
When demand increases or supply decreases, this generally happens to the price of a resource.
Increases
This type of government payment can encourage people or businesses to participate in an environmentally friendly activity.
Subsidy
These resources, including coal and oil, take extremely long periods of time to form or be replaced.
Nonrenewable Resoures
This occurs when individuals use a shared resource for their own benefit at a rate that can eventually deplete the resource.
Tragedy of the Commons
Before making a decision that could disrupt an ecosystem, these benefits should be considered along with the costs of the decision.
Ecosystem Services
This process considers the cost of a resource, labor, time, and environmental impacts and compares them with what could be gained.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
This policy places a limit on the total amount of pollution and allows companies to buy and sell permits for pollution.
Cap-and-Trade