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| Question | Answer |
| What is Environmental Science? | The study of how the natural world works and effects us. Or how we effect the environment. |
| How do we effect our environment? | BAD--> agriculture, roads, cities GOOD--> Breathe air |
| What is resource Management? | Strategic decision making ad planning aimed at balancing the use of a resource with its protection and preservation |
| What is Sustainable Development? and what does it require? | Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs --> Requires the ability to project ie: what will it lead to? Will people still be doing it in 20 years? What are the impacts of our decisions? |
| What does Environmental Science help make decisions with? | Informed management, risks and trade-offs, project and predict in order to make ethical decisions. |
| What is an ecosystem? | describes one or more communities of organisms that interact with their environment as a defined unit |
| What is Y2Y? and what do they do? | It's a preservation/conservation organization that's working on preserving the western Canadian rockies |
| What is a stressor? | Constraint on the development on the productivity of individual organisms, population, communities or ecosystems. |
| What are some examples of stressors? | Flood, Earthquake, Wildfires |
| What does stressors lead to? | Stress--> Disturbances-->Succession |
| What is the mountain pine beetle and what does it do? | Type stressor on any forest, it turns trees a redish-brown |
| What are the 5 Environmental World Views? | Anthropocentric Biocentric Ecocentric Frontier Sustainability |
| What is Anthropocentric? | Human centered |
| What is Biocentric? | Species Centered |
| Ecocentric | Bio (+) connections between species |
| Frontier | Anthro (+) the ecosystem is there for human use |
| what is Sustainability | Living for environmental projection |
| What does I=PxAxT stand for? | Impact=Populationx Affluencex Technology |
| What is "Affluenza"? | Environmental crisis are due to both over population and excessive resource consumption |
| What is Economic Growth? | Increase in the size of economy due to both population grown and per capita resource. |
| What is Economic Development? | A progressive improvment of efficiency in the use of materials and energy, with the aim of developing a sustainable economy |
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