Ecology ch1 Voc
Terms
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- economic development
- improvment of standards by economic growth
- environmentally sustainable society
- stisfies the basic needs of its people into the indefinite future without depleting or degrading the earth's natural resorces and theregy preventing current and furte generations of humans and other species from meeting their basic needs
- globalization
- a process of global scoial, economic, and environmental change that leads to an increase ingly inategrated world.
- natural resorces (capital)
- air, water, soil, wildlife, forests, rangelands, etc.
- renewable resource
- can be replenished fairly rapidly through natural processes
- acute poverty
- where people cannot meet their basic economic needs
- doubling time
- how long it takes a population to double in size
- solar energy
- dirct and indirect forms, wind power, hydropower, biomass.
- developed countries
- countries with a high GNI
- rule of 70
- 70/percentage growth rate=doubling time in yeras
- developing courtries
- countries that are not developed
- solar capital
- energy from the sun
- perpetual resource
- in a human time scale it is renewed continuously
- sustainable yield
- the highest rate at which a renewable resourc can be used indefinitely w/o reducing its avaible supply