APES Vocab Unit 1

AP Environmental Science vocabulary for Unit 1.

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Environmentalist
any person who advocates or works to protect the air, water, animals, plants, and other natural resources from pollution or its effects.
Natural Resources
the natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc.
Natural Capital
the extension of the economic notion of capital (manufactured means of production) to goods and services relating to the natural environment
Globalization
The process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications
Common
pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public
Tragedy of the Commons
A dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource, even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long-term interest for this to happen
Ethics
a system of moral principles
Human Resources
people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
Anthropocentric
Regarding the human being as the central fact of the universe
Anthropogenic
Caused or produced by humans
Bicentric
having two centers of evolution
Nongovernmental organization – NGO
an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
Stewardship
a person who acts as the surrogate of other or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
Sustainable
capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below.
Cost benefit analysis
a systematic process for calculating and comparing benefits and costs of a project, decision or government policy