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| the process by which an area becomes a desert |
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| refers to the availability of food and one's access to it |
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| major challenge that threatens long-term food policy, (most problematic for fossil aquifiers) |
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The substance of what government does
"Public policy is a course of government action or inaction in response to social problems" |
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| a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant |
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| body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies in the government (considered a branch of public law) |
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| protection, preservation, or careful management of the environment and natural resources such as forests, wildlife, soil, and water (Pinchot, Teddy Roosevelt) |
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| the act of keeping safe or free from harm or decay: protect or prevent (Muir) |
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| American Transcendentalist movement |
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| developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest against the general state of culture and society. core belief was the inherent goodness of both people and nature. |
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| the use of strikes, demonstrations, or other public forms of protest rather than the negotiation to achieve one's demands |
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| wise use/property right movement |
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| movement in the United States is a loose knit coalition of groups promoting the expansion of private property rights and reduction of government regulation of private held property ( |
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| the view that in liberal democracies power is dispersed among a variety of economic and ideological pressure groups and is not held by a single group of elites |
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National Environmental Policy ActÂ
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| requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making process by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternaatives to that action |
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| United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. requires EPA to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborn contaminates know to be hazardous to human health |
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| a fund established to finance a long-term, expensive project |
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| waste material that can cause death, injury or birth defects to living creatures |
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