STUVIA 2024/2025
GEOG 350 Midterm 1
the systematic study of our environment and our place in it - ✔✔What is
environmental science?
2050 - ✔✔*The UN population division predicts that the world population will stabilize
by what year?
the services/resources provided by environmental systems.
usually we rely on them without thinking about them. - ✔✔Ecosystem services
situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly
available but limited resources, creating disaster for the entire community
--no insentive to conserve the resource. - ✔✔the tragedy of the commons
a search for ecological stability and human progress that can last over the long term -
✔✔sustainability
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meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs
-the idea that economic improvement for the world's poorest populations is possible
without destroying the environment. - ✔✔sustainable development
skepticism and reproducibility - ✔✔science depends on...
logical reasoning from general to specific - ✔✔deductive reasoning
reasoning from many observations to produce a general rule (not good) - ✔✔inductive
reasoning
planet research- surface and weather of mars, weather of venus (greenhouse effect)
Saturns moon could have water;
UFO research (no aliens interested in Earth);
show original cosmos
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global warming - ✔✔*Carl Sagan
noted the affects of environmental degredation in ancient greece. - ✔✔Plato & the
environment
1864
George Perkins Marsh
environmental movement in N. america - ✔✔"Man and Nature"
Advisor to prez teddy roosevelt
conservationist
1st chief of the u.s. forest service - ✔✔*Gifford Pinchot
Naturalist who believed the wilderness should be preserved in its natural state.
He was largely responsible for the creation of Yosemite National Park in California.
National parks service
advised teddy as well
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1st prez of the sierra club
opposed pinchot's utilitarian policies
*preservationalist - ✔✔john muir
using the land as long as it can be conserved for future use.
--teddy roosevelt - ✔✔Utilitarian Conservationist
john muir
intrinsic right of all organisms to exist. - ✔✔*preservationist
in the west (of the rockies) - ✔✔*where is all the public land?
wrote A Sand County Almanac published a year after his death in 1948; promoted a
"Land Ethic" in which humans are ethically responsible for serving as the protectors of
nature. - ✔✔Aldo Leopold
led to the modern environmental movement. - ✔✔Rising pollution levels...
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