Environmental Policy: Technology, Business & Government
COURSE ORGANIZATION

Terminology for Midterm Exam

Balance of Nature

Barry Commoner (Technology  used for society’s benefit)

Bill McKibben (The End of Nature)

Biocentrism (“deep ecology”)

Biodiversity

Biome

Business Charter for Sustainable Development (1992)

Carrying Capacity

Christopher Stone (Should Trees Have Rights?)

Chlorofluorocarbons

Clean Air Act

Club of Rome Study

Coastal Zone Planning

Coral Reef Bleaching

Corporate Social Responsibility

Cosmology

Criteria for Effective Public Policy

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

Deforestation

Desertification

Earth Day (1970)

Earth Day (1990)

Eco-centric Management

Ecological function value (environmental services)

Ecological Niche

Ecosystem

Environmental Costs

Environmental Ethics

Environmental Impact Study (EIS)

Ethylene Bromide

Food Chain

Garbage Can Model

GIS Technologies

Garrett Hardin (Tragedy of the Commons)

Global Carbon Cycling

Global 2000 Report

Green Revolution (1950’s)

Habitat

Human Environment Conference (1972) – Stockholm, Sweden

Incrementalism

Keystone Species

Limiting Factors

Linnaeus (Taxonomic Classification System)

Methane

Mineral King case/Sierra Club

Montreal Protocol (1987)

Native Cultural Knowledge

NIMBY

Oikos

Paul Ehrlich (population control and food self-sufficiency)

Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins (Natural Capitalism)

Plate Tectonics

Policy Models (institutional, systems, group process, net-benefits)

Population and Community (ecology)

Pollution Avoidance

PPP (Pollution Prevention Programs)

Proactive Environmental Management

Public Policy Process

Public Interest vs. Private Interest

Rachel Carson (Silent Spring)

Range of Tolerance

Rio Summit (1992) - U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development

Stages of Environmental Concern

Stages of Policy Cycle (formulating, legitimizing, implementing, evaluating, modifying)

Stakeholder Concept

Stratospherice Ozone

Streams and Windows Models of Decision Making (problem, political, policy)

Sustainability (resource limitations to growth)

Threshold Effect

Toxics Release Inventory

TQM

Tragedy of the Commons

Union Carbide accident at Bhopal, India (1984)

U.S. EPA

U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (1970)

Wetlands Degradation




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