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climate change   a long term change in the Earth's climate; due to the negative effects of humans.  
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conservation   the view that natural resources should be used wisely & that society’s effects on the natural world should represent stewardship and not exploitation.  
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cultural ecology   study of the relationship between a cultural group and its natural environment.  
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deep ecology   approach to nature revolving around two key components: self-realization and biospherical egalitarianism.  
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deforestation   the removal of trees from a forested area without adequate replanting.  
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ecofeminism   the view that patriarchal ideology is at the center of our present environmental malaise.  
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environmental ethics   a philosophical perspective on nature that prescribes moral principles as guidance for our treatment of it.  
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environmental justice   movement reflecting a growing political consciousness, largely among the world’s poor, that their immediate environs are far more toxic than those in wealthier neighborhoods.  
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nature   a social creation as well as the physical universe that includes human beings.  
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political ecology   the approach to cultural geography that studies human-environment relations through the relationships of patterns of resource use to political & economic forces.  
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preservation   an approach to nature advocating that certain habitats, species, & resources should remain off-limits to human use, regardless of whether the use maintains or depletes the resource in question.  
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romanticism   the philosophy that emphasizes interdependence & relatedness between humans & nature.  
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society   the sum of inventions, institutions, & relationships created & reproduced by human beings across particular places & times.  
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technology   physical objects or artifacts, activities or processes, & knowledge or know-how.  
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transcendentalism   a philosophy in which a person attempts to rise above nature & the limitations of the body to the point where the spirit dominates the flesh.  
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