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APES Test 1 (2)
Question | Answer |
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Culture | Knowledge, beliefs, values and learned ways of life shared by a group of people |
Ethics | Branch of philosophy that involves the study of good/bad and right/wrong |
Environmental Ethics | The application of ethical standards to relationships between people and non-human entities |
Anthropocentric | Human-centered, in sustainable development, it refers to ideas that focus on the needs of people without considering the creatures in ecosystems that we depend on |
Transcendentalism | Philosophical/literary movement of the 1800s which emphasized celebrating the truth in nature, emotion, and imagination (Thoreau & Emerson) |
John Muir | U. S. naturalist who advocated the creation of natural parks, founded Sierra Club in 1892, fought to prevent the damming of the Valley in Yosemite, preservationist |
Gifford Pinchot | Head of U. S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, believed it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them |
Preservation Ethic | Protect the natural environment in a pristine, unaltered state |
Conservation Ethic | Humans should use natural resources but manage them wisely |
Aldo Leopold | "A Sand County Almanac" 1947/1948, "Land Ethic" where humans are the protectors of nature |
Environmental Justice |