Chapter 25
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16 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Environmental Justice Principle | no groups should bear an unfair share of the burden of pollution |
| Human Rights Principle | all people have the right to a clean and healthy environment |
| integrative principle | people should make environemtnal decisions that protect various elements |
| Lobbying | direct contact made by an interest group representative in order to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors |
| national forest | area of federally-owned land where logging and grazing are permitted under more heavily-managed conditions |
| national park | a tract of land declared by the national government to be public property |
| national resource land | land preserved for a particular resource |
| preservation system | preserves land and ecosystems as sole purpose |
| national wildlife refuge | protects habitats and breeding grounds: hunting, trapping, fishing, oil and gas development, mining, logging, grazing, militia, farming |
| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act that acknowledges that the Federal government must consider the environmental impact of a proposed federal action. Provided the basis for EISs. |
| Polluter Pays Principle | humans should develop regulations that charge the people directly who contaminate the environment |
| Precautionary Principle | humans should plan to do things that are less environmentally straining in the future |
| Prevention Principle | humans should make decisions that will prevent environmental problems from occurring in the future |
| Public Participation Principle | citizens should have open acces to environmental data |
| Reversibility Principle | humans should endeavor to not do something in the environment that cannot easily be reversed |
| 9 principles for making environmental policies | Humility Reversibility Precautionary Prevention Polluter Pays Integrative Public Participation human Rights Environmental Justice |
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