Terminology for Midterm Exam
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
Coastal Zone
Planning
Coral Reef
Bleaching
Corporate
Social
Responsibility
Cosmology
Criteria for
Effective
Public Policy
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) –
Incrementalism
Keystone Species
Limiting Factors
Linnaeus
(Taxonomic
Classification System)
Methane
Mineral King
case/Sierra
Club
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)
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
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Copyright: Gaytha A.
Langlois
Bryant University,
Smithfield,
RI 02917
Updated: January 2006