Written by Rachel Carson in 1962, this book shed light on the correlation between DDT use and decreased eggshell integrity in bird species.
What is Silent Spring
100
This was the most powerful and comprehensive biodiversity conservation law ever passed by any nation.
What is Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973
100
The term for when rational, self-interested actors seek to maximize their profits, and in doing so exhaust a common pool resource.
What is Tragedy of the Commons
100
The story of this seagoing vessel became symbolic of the global tensions regarding hazardous waste disposal.
What is Khian Sea Barge
100
This is an area of low oxygen content in the water, where agricultural fertilizers (Nitrogen sources) trigger algal blooms and die-offs.
What is dead zone
200
This concept enables us to examine if specific groups of people bear a disproportionate environmental risk burden or have disproportionate resource access relative to other groups of people.
What is Environmental Justice
200
This treaty written in 1982, were it adopted by more nationstates, could facilitate greater cooperation on issues of ocean governance
What is The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
200
This model posits a relationship between the stage of economic development (measured via income per capita) and the degree of environmental degradation (pollution).
What is Environmental Kuznets Curve
200
First major environmental law to include provision for citizen suits (a lawsuit by a private citizen to enforce a statute).
What is 1970 Clean Air Act
200
The introduction of non-native (invasive) species, diseases/parasites, and increasing pollution to aquatic systems are some of the major criticisms of this proposed solution intended to take pressure off of wild fish stocks.
What is aquaculture
300
This concept assumes that human rights, development, vulnerability, gender equity, and other social issues are all related to, and in the future will be increasingly shaped by, climate change.
What is Climate Justice
300
This treaty served to limit the transportation of hazardous wastes across international boundaries, specifically attempting to limit the transfer from developed to less developed countries.
What is Basel Convention
300
This management strategy involves dividing ocean space into areas where certain activities are permitted or excluded.
What is Ocean Zoning
300
An acronym representing an individual’s aversion to being in proximity to undesirable environmental outcomes/management solutions.
What is NIMBY-ism
300
The model that explains global air circulation and precipitation patterns according to latitudinal differences.
What is Hadley Cell Circulation
400
The term to describe when in some cities and regions, many residents have few transportation options and no nearby markets with fresh produce.
What are food deserts
400
This state legislative act called for the creation of a science-based, citizen-planned network of marine protected areas.
What is California Marine Life Protection Act, 1999
400
This tool of ocean zoning seeks to protect certain areas from resource exploitation and thus provide for the continued diversity and productivity of regional ecosystems.
What is Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
400
This term links the vulnerability of ecosystems with the vulnerability of the poor, particularly across the global South, and refers to destructive phenomena that are gradual, anonymous, delayed, incremental, and accretive.
What is Slow Violence
400
The “driver” or “engine” of global Thermohaline Circulation.
What is Deepwater Formation
500
The human personification of the Green Revolution, responsible for creating a better wheat plant.
Who is Norman Borlaug
500
Act that directed the EPA to establish national health standards for public drinking water, requires public notice of violations, and provides for citizen suits as an enforcement mechanism.
What is Safe Drinking Water Act (1974)
500
The idea that changes in technology drive human behavior.
What is Technological Determinism
500
Ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and lead are all defined as “criteria” pollutants under this.
What is National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
500
Caused by increased atmospheric CO2 diffusing into the ocean water, this phenomenon threatens organisms with calcium carbonate body structures, such as corals, urchins, and some phytoplankton.