APES: Chapter 1
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shelkina on November 6, 2011
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AP environmental, environmental science, sustainability
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10 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Human population growth | One of six themes. Considered the environmental problem. |
| Sustainability | One of six themes. The environmental goal, referring to resources and their environment. |
| An urbanizing world | Ome of six themes. Most people live and work in urban areas. |
| People and nature | One of six themes. Considering the fact that people and nature share a common history. |
| Science and values | One of six themes. Science provides solutions, but which solution is chosen depends on value judgment. |
| Rachel Carson | Author of Silent Spring, popularized the environment as a social and political issue in the 1960's |
| Environmentalists (1960s) | Considered the world in a state of peril, blaming the inevitable end of civilization on economic and social development, wanted to eliminate scientific meddeling. |
| Anti-Environmentalists (1960s) | Believed strong social and economic structures were necessary for humanity to flourish, despite the environmental consequences. |
| Sustainable resource harvest | The same quantity of a resource can be harvested each year for an unlimited or specified amount of time without decreasing the ability to of the resources to produce the same gravest level. |
| Sustainable ecosystem | An ecosystem from which we are harvesting a resource at is still able to maintain its essential functions and properties |
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