Sustainability
Considers people, profit, and planet for human well-being and sustainability
What is the triple bottom line?
Visually represents a system to understand each element
What is a systems map?
Studies how living things interact in their natural world
Ecology
Photosynthesis, water cycle, and nutrient cycle are examples of this ecosystem service.
What is a supporting service
The time it takes for a resource to be replaced
What is Replacement rate
A reinforcing loop where a reaction leads to an increase in the reaction itself.
Positive feedback
Goods and services provided by the natural environment as natural processes and fuels economy.
Natural capital
Water purification, carbon sequestration, and flood mitigation are examples of this ecosystem service.
What is a regulating service?
When resources are consumed at an equal rate of replenishment
What is equilibrium?
A balancing loop to buffers a system.
If this animal is missing from an ecosystem, it can cause a collapse.
Impacts to the nation's American bald eagle is primarily an example of which ecosystem service?
A set of interconnected things that produce something greater than the sum of its parts
What is a system?
Predator and prey relationships balance the ecosystem in this causal relationship.
Negative feedback loop.
The underpin of ecosystem services that enhances ecosystem functioning.
What is Biodiversity?
Timber, glass, and mining natural resources that can be sold for profit are examples of...
Provisioning services
The more biodiversity in an ecosystem, the more this system will be protected from collapse.
What is buffering?
A circular chain where a change in one component influences another.
Feedback loop
The relationship between funding and habitat preservation is an example of this causal relationship and feedback loop.
Positive feedback loop.
What is a cultural service?