ENS3001 Definitions Pop Quiz

6. Tools enabling organizations to address the environmental impact of their goods and services.
10. Term for natural resources that theoretically last forever, such as solar or wind energy.
11. Discipline studying moral convictions about environmental behavior and responsibility.
13. This is the number of the strategic goal in Jamaica’s Vision 2030 to achieve a healthy natural environment
14. Jamaica’s main agency responsible for environmental regulation, established in 2001.

1. Goods and services provided by Earth through natural processes that support economies and life.
2. Balancing environmental, social, and economic needs of current and future generations.
3. This is an Earth-centered perspective that only sees humans as part of the environment and views resources having intrinsic value apart from human use.
4. Careful use of natural resources to preserve them for the future.
5. Category of development where resources serve for the next generation and not just the present.
7. Economic model that factors in environmental sustainability to reduce risk and improve human well-being.
8. All living and non-living external factors that affect an organism.
9. This is a human-centered perspective that views Earth’s resources in terms of its usefulness to humans.
12. Process of placing monetary values on environmental resources and their services.