Core 3 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Emerging Middle Class
People that had previously been considered lower class but are now qualifying for middle class due to prospering economies
Ecological Footprint
The hypothetical area of land required by a person or community to sustain their use of natural resources
Bio Capacity
The biocapacity or biological capacity of an ecosystem is an estimate of its production of certain biological materials such as natural resources, and its absorption and filtering of other materials such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Energy Security
Energy security is the association between national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption.
Nexus
A connection linking a series of things e.g: water, agriculture and electricity
Resource stewardship
Resource stewardship is the appropriate allocation of resources
Malthusian Theory
The theory states that food production will not be able to keep up with growth in the human population, resulting in disease, famine, war, and calamity
Domestic waste
Household waste, also known as domestic waste or residential waste, is disposable materials generated by households.
Consumer waste
Consumer waste is a type of waste produced by the end consumer of a material stream; that is, where the waste-producing use did not involve the production of another product.
Rubbish tips
Where people bring waste that they can’t put into regular bins like old computers etc…
Recycling
Turning waste into something new and usable
Composting
Turning organic matter like food waste into fertilizer for plants
Landfill
Dumping waste into a designated area
Incineration
Burning waste
Energy from Waste (EFW)
Burning waste to create steam for energy
E-waste
Electronic waste: laptops etc
Carrying capacity
The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available
Overpopulation
Overpopulation is when there are too many people for the land (over the carrying capacity)
Underpopulation
Under population is when there are few people for the land (under the carrying capacity)
Optimum population
The optimum population is the perfect balance between the number of people and the number of resources in an area. This is extremely difficult to attain as the population is fickle and can fluctuate quickly as well as other external disasters like natural disasters which could affect resourced and population
Maximum sustainable yield
The most amount of resources that can be harvested from the land without damaging the area and that allows for future yield of the same quantity
Sustainable development
Development that doesn’t have negative effects on the environment
Remanufacturing
The rebuilding of a product to specifications of the original manufactured product using a combination of reused, repaired and new part
The 4 global commons
- The Seas
- The Atmosphere
- The Antarctica
- Outer space
