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| Utilitarian conservationist |
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| A person who values natural resources because of their usefulness to humans but use them sensibly and carefully. |
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| Biocentric preservationist |
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| A person who believes in protecting nature from human interference because all forms of life deserve respect and consideration. |
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| Painted life like portraits of birds and animals that aroused public interest in wildlife in North America. |
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| U.S. writer who contemplated how people could economize and simplify their lives to live in harmony with the natural world. |
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| was a farmer who wrote MAN AND NATURE which provided the first discussions of humans as agents of global environmental change. |
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| Gifford PINCHOT and T. ROOSEVELT |
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| Utilitarian conservationist who viewed forests in terms of their usefulness to people. PINCHOT expanded the nations forest reserve. |
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| A biocentric preservationist (writer) who helped spark the Yosemite National Park. Founded the Sierra Club. |
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| Established the CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS. |
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| Wrote a textbook GAME MANAGEMENT sparked new taxes on sporting weapons and ammo which was used for wildlife management. |
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| Marine biologist who wrote about interrelationships among living organisms. SILENT SPRINGS was her most famous book. |
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| Gaylord NELSON and Denis HAYES |
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| Former Senator who urged Denis HAYES to organize Earth Day. |
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| The process of evaluating and presenting to decision makers the relative benefits and costs of various alternatives. |
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| Earth's resources and processes that sustain living organisms, including humans; includes minerals, forests, soils, groundwater, clean air, wildlife, and fisheries. |
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| A harmful environmental or social cost that is borne by people not directly involved in selling or buying a product. |
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| The added cost of an additional unit of pollution. |
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| Marginal cost of pollution abatement |
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| The added cost of reducing one unit of a given type of pollution. |
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| A diagram that helps policymakers make decisions about costs of a particular action and benefits that would occur if that action were implemented. |
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| Optimum amount of pollution |
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| The amount of pollution that is economically most desirable. |
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| Command and control regulation |
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| Pollution control laws that work by setting limits on levels of pollution. |
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| Incentive-based regulations |
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| Pollution control laws that work by establishing emissions targets and providing industries with incentives to reduce emissions. |
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