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Sustaining Global Communities
Environment, Global Warming and Justice #2
Study Guide
Key Concepts
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global warming
environmental justice
environmental racism
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cap & trade system
e-waste
Terms
Reconciliation ecology
Sustaining Biodiversity:
The Species
Approach (pp. 190215 in Miller text)
CITIES
Convention on Biological
Diversity
Endangered Species Act of
1973
National Wildlife Refuge
Gene or seed banks
Precautionary principle
Terrestrial Biodiversity;
(pp. 217 – 249 Miller
text)
Wangari Maathai & the
Green Belt Movement
Debt-for nature swaps
Conservation concessions
Conservation easements
Wilderness
Broad understandings
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Aquatic Biodiversity;
(pp. 168 - 189 Miller
text)
Saltwater vs. freshwater
life zones
Turbidity
Coastal zone
Coastal wetlands
Sea grass beds
Mangrove forests
Intertidal zone
Open sea
Euphotic zone
Upwelling zones
Bathyal zone
Abyssal zone
Littoral zone
Limnetic zone
Profundal zone
Benthic zone
Source zone
Transition zone
Floodplain zone
Sustaining Aquatic
Biodiversity; (pp. 250
- 276 Miller text)
Trawler fishing
Purse-seine fishing
Long-lining
Drift-net fishing
Bycatch
Catch-share systems
Co-management
Sustainable seafood
Zebra mussel
Quagga mussel
Asian carp
Why should species be preserved? How can it?
What role does climate play in sustaining ecosystems?
What is the connection between deforestation, sustainable ecosystems and
cultures?
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