Utilitarian conservation - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

George Perkins Marsh Correct Answer: Man and Nature Impact of people on the environment -deforestation -overgrazing Influenced Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt & Pinchot Correct Answer: Created US forest service Utilitarian conservation (pragmatic) -should use resources, but wisely -to the benefit of the most people but mostly to those who are alive right now -economic standpoint John Muir Correct Answer: Writer 2 Religious (spiritual values) Sierra Club - one of the most important cons...

ENWC201 Final Exam Questions And Answers goods, services, information, psych-spiritual - ANS What are the four categories of instrumental/utilitarian values? something has the right to exist - ANS what are intrinsic values of biodiversity people will act selfishly and do something that benefits them even if it's not in everyone's long term interest - ANS what is the tragedy of the commons? anthropocentric - ANS view of biodiversity that only has a view as a means to hu...

Optimists correct answers "Although there are many issues facing natural resources conservation, human ingenuity and technology will be able to solve all our resource and environmental problems." This quote is best represented by which viewpoint on sustainability? Paul Ehrlich correct answers Who wrote the book "The Population Bomb" and wagered against a drop in price of five metals (copper, chromium, nickel, tin, tungsten) over a 10 year period Also Leopold correct answers...

True or false: Throughout the history of industrial economies, business has most often considered environmental concerns to be unwanted burdens and barriers to economic growth. Ans: true The Natural Step challenges businesses to imagine what a sustainable future must hold. From that vision, creative businesses then look backward to the present and determine what must be done to arrive at that future. This is known as _____. Ans: backcasting True or false: An aspect of contemporary envi...

interpretive approach correct answers the view that the way we use our environment and resources is determined by already set ideologies. (world view, religion, ritual, classification systems). These control the way people interact with environment. ex) four rationalities 'myths of nature' materialist approach correct answers the view that material forces drive the cultural system. (subsistence, technology, productive arrangements). ex) nomadic/ indigenous peoples. Move around based on wh...

WCB 305 Exam 1 Questions And 100% Correct Answers 1. What five eras have been conventionally used to outline the development of the current status of wildlife conservation and management in the US? i. Era of Abundance (1500—1849) ii. Era of Overexploitation (1850—1899) iii. Era of Protection (1900—1929) iv. Era of Game Management (1930—1965) v. Era of Environmental Management (1966—present) b. How did the transcontinental railroad impact the history of wildlife ecology/managem...

A company that values their land based upon the market value of the timber is using _________ framework to evaluate their environment - Utilitarian An employee of the Nature conservancy that is researching conservation of endangered species is evaluating the environment based upon an ___________ framework - Ecological The ecosystem most likely to show chronic patchiness - Desert An example of a fire adapted ecosystem - Ponderosa Pine Forest The main reason why the Ponderosa Pine Forest at ...

Environmental Science Exam 1 Practice Test Questions & Answers 2023/2024 When a new species evolves as a result of geographic isolation it is referred to as A. sympatric speciation B. Natural Speciation C. Allopatric Speciation D. Resource partitioning - ANSWER-C Gifford Pinchot believed that resources should be used for the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time and thus he practiced A. Biocentric preservation B. Utilitarian conservation C.Holistic preservatio...

APES VOCAB LATEST 2023 100% CORRECT environment the circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms as well as the complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community environmental science the systematic, scientific study of our environment as well as our role in it utilitarian conservation a philosophy that resources should be used for the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time biocentric preservation a philosophy th...

NRES 150 Exam 1 Written Exam 2024. George Marsh - correct answer Wrote Man and Nature influenced Pinchot John Muir - correct answer Attended UW- Madison Father of Preservationists- Little to no consumptive use. Gifford Pinchot - correct answer Society of American Foresters Influenced Marsh Father of Utilitarian Conservationists- Sustainable use Theodore Roosevelt - correct answer The Conservation President Member of the Audubon society Influenced by Muir and Pinchot Na...