[EGGS 105] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 34 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Bloomsburg University
• Department: Environ, Geog, & Geol Sciences
• Course: EGGS 105
• Professor: John Bodenman

Document Summary

1. sustainability: the (cid:272)apa(cid:272)ity of the earth"s (cid:374)atural syste(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)ultural syste(cid:373) to sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)e, flourish, and adapt into the very long-term future. 2. some directly available for use: sunlight: some not directly available for use: petroleum, an inexhaustible resource, solar energy (cid:1011). 2. energy resources (fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas: metallic mineral resources (copper, aluminum) Resources used to produce goods and services: natural capital, resour(cid:272)es provided (cid:271)y the earth"s (cid:374)atural pro(cid:272)esses, human capital, people"s physi(cid:272)al a(cid:374)d (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal tale(cid:374)ts, manufactured capital, tools and materials. This is the optimum pollution clean- up level: cost-benefit analysis is a useful but crude tool, cost benefit analysis follows guidelines, state all assumptions used. Indoor air pollution is a serious problem: in developing countries. Indoor burning of wood, charcoal, dung, crop, residues, coal: greatest risk to low-income populations, in developed countries. Inorganic and organic chemicals: mining, erosions and toxic chemicals, harmful effects. Chapter 9- loss of species and ecosystem services.