Priciples of sustainability
Everything around us is called?
Environment
What are some of the key ecosystems services ?
•Purification of air and water;
•Renewal topsoil;
•Pollination;
•Pest control;
•Nutrient cycling;
The effect of the environmental degradation by human activities can be described as..?
An ecological footprint
What are the characteristics of Hunter gathers ?
They:
lived in small groups
consumed few resources
had few possessions
moved as needed to find enough food to survive.
What we believe about what is right and what is wrong in our behavior toward the environment, is known as ..?
The environmental ethics
The three factors that play a key role in the long term sustainability of the plannets life are?
Solar energy
Biodiversity
Chemical cycling
What are some factors that show prosperity Globally;
• The life span is increasing
•Infant mortality is decreasing
•Education is on the rise
•Some diseases are being conquered
•The worlds population rate has slowed.
The ability of an areas` ecosystem to generate the renewable resources used by a population , city, region , country or the world and to absorb the resulting wastes and pollution in known as..?
Biocapacity
What are the three major changes have occurred , beggining from the time of hunter gathers?
•The agricultural revolution
•The industrial –medical revolution
•The information globalization revolution
what does the stewardship worldview, mean?
That we are stewards of our planet and have the responsibility to be caring of the planet for our future generations.
The natural resources and ecosystem services that keep humans and other species alive, and that support human economies, is known as?
Natural capital
What are some of the consequences of the capital degradation?
•Forests are shrinking
•Deserts are expanding
•Topsoil is eroding
•The lower atmosphere is warming
•Floating ice and glaciers are melting
•Sea levels are rising
•Ocean acidity is increasing
The largest component of the ecological footprint includes:
Air pollution
Climate change
Ocean acidification caused by the burning of fossil fuels, oil, coal, and natural gas .
What are the major environmental problems?
•Climate change
•Loss of species and habitat /biodiversity loss
•Ocean acidification
•Diminishing access to freshwater
•Resource waste
•Hazardous pollutants
What is an environmentally sustainable society?
A society that protects the natural capital and lives on its income .
Inexhaustible resources include?
The solar energy
The wind energy
The geothermal energy
whata are open –access resources?
Resources are not owned by anyone and are used by everyone.
If total ecological footprint is larger than its biological capacity, the area is said to have an...?
Ecological deficit
What are the major causes of todays environmental problems ?
•Population growth
•Wasteful and unsustainable resource use
•Omission of the harmful environmental and health cost of goods and services in market prices
•Increasing isolation from nature
•Competing environmental worldviews
How can we live more sustainably?
We can live more sustainably- means learning to live within the limits imposed by the earth, including:
•Learning from the nature
•Protecting the natural capital
•Not wasting resources
•Recycling and reusing nonrenewable resources
Economics , politics and ethics provide us three additional principles of the sustainability , includong....?
Full -cost pricing
Win-win solution
Responsibility to future generations
What is the meaning of the Tragedy of the Commons?
The Tragedy of the Commons describes a situation where shared resources are overused, and eventually depleted, posing risks to everyone
If total ecological footprint is lower than its biological capacity, the area is said to have an...?
Ecological credit
The set of assumptions and values concerning on how the natural world works and how you think you should interact with the environment, are knonw as ..?
The environmental worldview
What are the three major categories of environmental worldviews?
A human- centered environmental worldview.
The life- centered environmental worldview.
The earth- centered environmental worldview.