Across
- 4. the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area
- 7. biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
- 9. the commitment of an organization to the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning environmental issues
- 12. a market-based approach to controlling pollution that allows corporations or national governments to trade emissions allowances under an overall cap, or limit, on those emissions
- 14. the practice of marking products with a distinctive label to show that their manufacture conforms to recognized environmental standards
- 15. able to be maintained at a certain rate or level without depleting the future supply
- 18. Tax paid by consumers for products or services that are not environmentally friendly. The intended purpose is to offset the negative impact resulting from the use of non-green products and services
- 19. materials or substances that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
- 20. a document prepared to describe the effects for proposed activities on the environment
- 22. the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities
- 23. process by which business decisions are analyzed
- 25. form of philosophy that considers the ways humans interact with their natural environment and with nonhuman animals
Down
- 1. efforts to influence and elected official into supporting a specific interest
- 2. members of the same species that are inhabitants of a particular area
- 3. the value that is not included in the price of a product or services, such as clean air and water
- 5. a resource that cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equal to its consumption
- 6. a field of economics that integrates the earth's natural systems, human values, and human health and well-being
- 8. the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth
- 9. rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad
- 10. substance of economic value that can be replaced or replenished in a short amount of time
- 11. system of rules
- 13. branch of economics that acknowledges the value of both the environment and economic activity and makes choices based on those values
- 16. a natural fuel formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
- 17. the amount of a product or service people will consume at a given price if free to do so
- 21. any part of an ecosystem that is not derived from living organisms
- 24. relating to or resulting from living things
- 25. footprint the impact of a person or community on the environment
- 26. the amount of product offered for sale at a given price