A.P.E.S Chapter 1-2
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- Sustainable Society
- Satisfies the basics needs without depleting or degrading natural resources
- Population growth
- -World Population: 6.1 Million
- Ecology
- relationships between organisms and their enviroment
- Enviromental Science
- application of natural and social sciences to understand how the earth works how humans effect the enviroment and to propose/ evaluate solutions to enviromental problems
- 3 Reasons of population increase
- 1.Increase in birth 2.decrease in infant moratality 3.increase in lifespan
- Equations of Population Growth
- D=N/S S=N/D N=DxS
- Economic Growth
- increase in capacity to provide goods and services accomplished by population and consumption growth
- GNP(gross national product)
- $ provided within and outside a country
- GDP(gross domestic product)
- $ provided withing a country
- GWP(Gross World Product)
- $ produced in the world
- per capita GNP
- GNP/total population
- economic development
- imptovement of living standards by economic growth
- economic
- basic needs
- pollutions
- additives to the air water soil and food which threatens organisms can occur naturally or through human activities
- Sources of Pollution
- point->singe source non-point-> dispersed sources
- Causes of Enviromental Problems
- air pollution water pollution biodiversity depletion waste production food supply
- Causes of Pollution
- rapid population growth unsustainable resource use poverty improper management of nature
- First Conservationists
- Native Americans
- Frontier Expansion
- European Colonists
- Early Conservation Warnings
- People warned about enviromental depletion Ralph Emerson Henry David Thoreau George Marsh
- Fed's Roles in Conservation
- Sets up 2 million acres in the first national park Yellowstone
- Preservationists
- Keep Wilderness
- Scientific Conservationists
- multiple use public lands for economical growth
- Expanding Federal Role
- CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps 1984-first air pollution disaster in PA.
- Earth Day
- April 22 1970