Human Population Dynamics
This term describes the average number of children each woman has over her lifetime.
What is the Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?
This type of natural capital can be generated and/or replaced as fast as it is being used, including living species and ecosystems that use solar energy and photosynthesis.
What is renewable natural capital?
This is another name for Incineration which is many times considered "green" technology.
What is waste to energy facilities
A term that refers to the maximum number of a species that can be sustainably supported by a given area
What is carrying capacity?
An example of renewable natural capital
What are living species and ecosystems that use solar energy and photosynthesis?
What is Education--especially for women.
What is make contraception more readily available.
Mining for this heavy metal, essential for batteries in electric vehicles, has raised concerns about water pollution and habitat destruction.
What is Lithium
The three primary strategies for minimizing waste
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?
A model used to estimate the demands that human populations place on the environment, considering factors like resource consumption and waste production
What is the ecological footprint (EF)?
Explain how the concept of natural capital is dynamic.
What is the influence of cultural, social, economic, environmental, technological, and political factors, leading to variations regionally and over time?
The rate at which a population doubles in size is known as this.
What is Doubling Time (DT)?
This term describes resources that exist in finite amounts on Earth and are not renewed or replaced after they have been used or depleted.
What is non-renewable natural capital?
The primary method of waste disposal which involves burying waste in designated sites
What is landfill?
The contrasting EVS' to changing human carrying capacity, focusing on resource reduction and self-sufficiency versus technological innovation and efficiency improvements?
What are ecocentrism and technocentrism?
A mismanagement example involving non-renewable natural capital
What is the over-extraction of fossil fuels leading to environmental damage and resource depletion?
This model shows how a population transitions from a pre-industrial stage with high birth and death rates to an economically advanced stage with low birth and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
Evaluate Palm oil as renewable natural capital.
Pros:
Grows on trees-- therefore renewable
Cons:
Grows in tropical regions and plantations of palm oil contribute to deforestation.
The process where biodegradable matter is broken down by microorganisms in the absence of oxygen, producing methane as a byproduct
What is anaerobic digestion?
Factors are considered when calculating the ecological footprint of a country or individual
What are lifestyle choices, productivity of food production systems, land use, or industry?
A pollution management strategy for solid domestic waste.
What are recycling, incineration, composting, and landfill?
In this stage of the Demographic Transition Model, birth rates are high while death rates start to decline due to improved healthcare and sanitation.
What is Stage 2 (Early Expanding)?
Describes the factors influencing the status and economic value of natural capital
What is the dynamic nature of natural capital?
The term used to describe the economic model where producers retain ownership of products and are responsible for recycling or disposing of them at the end of their lifespan
What is the circular economy?
An indication of unsustainability as the population exceeds the carrying capacity of the area
What is having an ecological footprint greater than its available land area?
Evaluate Recycling as a Waste Disposal Method.
Pros: Contributes to the circular economy- lessens resource extraction and therefore pollution.
Cons: Resource intensive and expensive to sort. Not all materials are recyclable.