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- 3. A worldview that shapes the way an individual or group of people perceives and evaluates environmental issues
- 6. a report completed before development to assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of the project, predicting and evaluating possible impacts and suggesting mitigation strategies for the project.
- 9. A viewpoint argues that technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems. This is a consequence of a largely optimistic view of the role humans can play in improving the lot of humanity. Scientific research is encouraged in order to form policies and to understand how systems can be controlled, manipulated or changed to solve resource depletion. A pro-growth agenda is deemed necessary for society's improvement.
- 11. development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- 14. More economically developed country (such as the USA)
- 15. the use and management of resources that allows full natural replacement of the resources exploited and full recovery of the ecosystems affected by their extraction and use.
- 18. A viewpoint argues that humans must sustainably manage the global system. This might be through the use of taxes, environmental regulation and legislation. Debate would be encouraged to reach a consensual, pragmatic approach to solving environmental problems.
- 19. the area of land and water required to sustainably provide all resources at rate at which they are being consumed by a given population. If the EF is greater than the area wich they are being consumed by a giving population.
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- 1. the the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
- 2. Less economically developed country (such as Haiti)
- 4. (or contaminant) is the addition of a substance or an agent to an environment through human activity, at a rate greater than that at which it can be rendered harmless by the environment, and which has an appreciable effect on the organisms in the environment.
- 5. natural resources that can supply a natural income of goods or services;
- 7. can occur when lakes, estuaries and coastal waters receive inputs of nutrients (nitrates and phosphates), which results in an excess growth of plants and phytoplankton.
- 8. the yield obtained from natural resources;
- 10. contaminants from numerous widely dispersed origins
- 12. contaminants from a single clearly identifiable site.
- 13. is the day when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services is greater than the Earth's ability to regenerate those resources in a given year.
- 16. An viewpoint integrates social, spiritual and environmental dimensions into a holistic ideal. It puts ecology and nature as central to humanity and emphasizes a less materialistic approach to life with greater self-sufficiency of societies
- 17. an estimate of an ecosystem's production of natural resources but also of its absorption and cycling of materials in biogeochemical cycles like the carbon cycle. The biocapacity of the earth is about-1.7 global hectares of productive land per person.