Environmentalism Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Honors Government Final Exam Quizletpolitical party - correct answer Groups of persons who join together with common principles to control government and affect policies and programs party in power - correct answer This term is used to describe the party that controls the presidency and thus the executive branch three components of political party - correct answer the party organization; the party in the electorate; the party in government the National Convention - correct answer The pa...

William Henry - Answer-- 1891 - set aside 1.2 million acres Gifford Pinchot - Answer-"greatest good for the greatest number in long run" - Friends with Theadore Roosevelt - Appointed first chief forester of U.S. Forest Service Teddy Roosevelt - Answer-- created U.S. park service - 5 national parks - 18 monuments - 51 bird sanctuaries - 100 M acres of national forest John Muir - Answer-- Yosemite - petrified forest - grand canyon - sierra club Aldo Leopold - Answer-- The Land Ethi...

1) A specialized field which works on engineering the work environment is: A. industrial existentialism. B. ergonomics. C. environmentalism. D. engineering design - B. ergonomics. 2) A primary advantage of unstructured versus structured interviewing techniques is that: A. structured interviews take less time B. in an unstructured interview, the interviewer can ask follow-up questions and pursue points of interest as they develop C. unstructured interviews are in compliance with EEOC regulat...

Martin Luther King, Jr. correct answers This person's ethic is marked by nonviolent resistance. Walter Rauschenbusch correct answers This person is most closely associated with the Social Gospel. Dietrich Bonhoeffer correct answers This person contrasted "cheap" and "costly" grace. The Ethic of Transcendence, The Ethic of Liberation, and The Ethic of Character correct answers List 3 of the 7 major trajectories that emerged in contemporary Christian ethics in the 20th century. Gu...

Cost Benefit Analysis - Way of estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives that satisfy a business. Heuristic - Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves. Bandwagon Effect - Doing something because someone else is. Kingdon's Three Stream Model of Policy Making - For an issue to get on the political agenda 3 things must be addressed: 1. A problem 2. A solution to the problem 3. The Political will to fix the problem Salience - Extent to which the public ...

1) A specialized field which works on engineering the work environment is: A. industrial existentialism. B. ergonomics. C. environmentalism. D. engineering design - correct answerB. ergonomics. 2) A primary advantage of unstructured versus structured interviewing techniques is that: A. structured interviews take less time B. in an unstructured interview, the interviewer can ask follow-up questions and pursue points of interest as they develop C. unstructured interviews are in compliance with ...

goals of policy - Answer-protect natural resources and ensure wise use tangible direct benefits - Answer-wood, water, wildlife, fish, recreation, ecotourism intangible benefits - Answer-aesthetics and biodiversity principles of wildlife policy - Answer-preservation and use factors of preservation - Answer-time, location, affluence, and individual impact preserve what?? - Answer-species, aesthetics, ecosystem structure, genetic integrity, and associated lifestyles preserve from what?? - An...

Progressive Pioneers (~pre-1910) Social and Political elites; Regional and local issue focus; Divided on preservation v. conservation. Groups: Sierra Club National Audubon Society Preservation Movement: Social and political elites (writers and artists) in mid to late 19th century began to argue that it was necessary to PRESERVE the grand scenery and natural features of the unspoiled western landscape; "romanticization" of nature. Influential thinkers: Henry David Thoreau, Ral...

ESRM 100: Exam 1 question n answers graded A+ 2023environment - correct answer the sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life environmental science - correct answer interactions among human systems and those found in nature system - correct answer any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials ecosystem - correct answer location whose interacting components are abiotic and biotic environmentalist - correct answer a per...

This document entails all the obliged literature as noted in the Course Guide of this course (ENR-20306) teached at the Wageningen University year 2022-2023. Books: • Hanley, Nick, Jason Shogren, and Ben White (2019), Introduction to environmental economics. Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2019 (ch. 1–3,5,8,12,15) • Fisher, Naidoo, and Ricketts (2014) A field guide to economics for conservationists. WH Freeman, Cheltenham, UK., chapter: 2 • Van Koppen & Spaargaren, Environmen...