Tragedy of the Commons/Clear Cutting
When shared, limited resources become depleted when they are not regulated.
What is the tragedy of the commons.
An agriculture practice that uses a variety of techniques to minimize pesticide outputs.
What is integrated pest management (IPM)?
The removal of overlying vegetation and strips of soil and rock to expose underlying ore.
Being able to use a resource or engage in an activity now without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to engage in similar activities later.
What is sustainablility?
The unintentional catch of nontarget species while fishing.
What is bycatch?
A method of harvesting trees that involves removing all or almost all of the trees within an area.
What is clear-cutting?
Plants, animals, or microorganisms that have been genetically engineered for specific traits.
A mining technique in which the entire top of a mountain is removed with explosives.
What is mountaintop removal?
A measure of the area of land and water an individual, population, or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to process the waste it generates.
A large indoor or outdoor structure designed for maximum occupancy of animals and maximum output of meat.
What is a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO)?
The process of planting trees in areas the forest has been either cut down or hindered by a disturbance.
What is reforestation?
A shift in agricultural practices in the twentieth century that included new management, mechanization, fertilization, and irrigation techniques.
What is the Green Revolution?
A mining technique that creates a large visible pit or hole in the ground.
What is open-pit mining?
A measure of the total carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses emissions from the activities, both direct and indirect, of akn entity.
What is carbon footprint?
Allowing animals to graze outdoors on grass for at least most of their life cycle.
What is free range grazing?
The cost or benefit of a good or service that is not included in the purchase price of the good or service.
What is externality?
This irrigation method involves a slowly dripping hose on the ground or buried beneath the soil that directly delivers water to the roots.
What is drip irrigation?
The process of looking for minerals, metals, and precious stones in river sediments.
What is placer mining?
Derived from human activities?
What is anthropogenic?
The breeding, raising, and harvesting or aquatic organisms.
What is aquaculture?
A 1973 U.S. law designed to protect plant and animal species that are threatened with extinction, and the habitats that support those species.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
An agricultural method in which land is cleared and farmed for only a few years until the soil is depleted of nutrients.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
Mining techniques used when the desired resource is more than 100 m below the surface of Earth.
What is subsurface mining?
The largest quantity of a renewable resource that can be harvested indefinitely.
What is maximum sustainable yield (MSY)?
Excessive grazing that can reduce or remove vegetation and erode and compact the soil.
What is overgrazing?