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| Environmentally Sustainable Society |
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| Society that satisfies the basic needs of its people without depleting or degrading its natural resources |
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| Natural Capital/Natural Resources |
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| Earth's natural materials and processes that sustain other species and us |
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| Growth in which some quantity increases by a fixed percentage of the whole in a given time period |
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| Time it takes for the quantity of something growing exponentially to double |
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Doubling time (in years) =
70/percentage growth rate |
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| Increase in capacity to provide people with goods and services produced by an economy |
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| Improvement of living standards by economic growth |
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| GNI (Gross National Income) |
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| Total market value in current dollars of all goods and services produced WITHIN AND OUTSIDE a country during a year |
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| GDP (Gross Domestic Product) |
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| Total market value in current dollars of all goods and services produced WITHIN a country |
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| GWP (Gross World Product) |
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| Market value in current dollars of all goods and services produced in the WORLD each year |
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| Annual gross national income of a country divided by its total population |
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| Country that is highly industrialized and has a high per capita GNP |
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| Country has low-moderate industrialization and low to moderate per capita GNP |
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| Measure of the ecological impact of the consumption of wood/food/products/resources, use of buildings/roads/garbage dumps, and destruction of forests |
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| Broad process of global social/economic/environmental change that leads to an increasingly similar and integrated world |
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| Earth's natural materials and processes that sustain other species and us |
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| Natural resources, capital goods, and labor used in an economy to produce material goods and services |
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| Essentially inexhaustible resource on a human time scale (Example: Solar Energy) |
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| Environmental Degradation |
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| Depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource that is used faster than it is naturally replenished |
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