Table of Contents
64 relations: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Barry Commoner, Biodiversity loss, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Carbon dioxide, Carbon footprint, Carrying capacity, Climate change, Degrowth, Demographic transition, Denis Hayes, Dependent and independent variables, Eco-economic decoupling, Ecological Economics (journal), Ecological footprint, Ecological indicator, Ecological restoration, Ecosystem, Embodied energy, Environmental issues, Environmentalist, Epiphenomenon, George Wald, Global hectare, Greenhouse gas, Gross domestic product, Human impact on the environment, Jevons paradox, John Holdren, Journal of Cleaner Production, Kaya identity, Land use, Lead-acid battery, Lester R. Brown, Life-cycle assessment, Lynn Steen, Malthusian growth model, Nature conservation, Neal Koblitz, Overshoot (population), Paul R. Ehrlich, Pigouvian tax, Pollution, Population control, Population growth, Propaganda, Reason (magazine), Rebound effect (conservation), René Dubos, Resource consumption, ... Expand index (14 more) »
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.
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Barry Commoner
Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician.
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Biodiversity loss
Biodiversity loss happens when plant or animal species disappear completely from Earth (extinction) or when there is a decrease or disappearance of species in a specific area.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nonprofit organization concerning science and global security issues resulting from accelerating technological advances that have negative consequences for humanity.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Carbon footprint
A carbon footprint (or greenhouse gas footprint) is a calculated value or index that makes it possible to compare the total amount of greenhouse gases that an activity, product, company or country adds to the atmosphere.
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Carrying capacity
The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available. I = PAT and carrying capacity are population ecology.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. I = PAT and climate change are human impact on the environment.
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Degrowth
Degrowth is an academic and social movement critical of the concept of growth in gross domestic product as a measure of human and economic development. I = PAT and Degrowth are environmental social science concepts.
Demographic transition
In demography, demographic transition is a phenomenon and theory which refers to the historical shift from high birth rates and high death rates in societies with minimal technology, education (especially of women) and economic development, to low birth rates and low death rates in societies with advanced technology, education and economic development, as well as the stages between these two scenarios. I = PAT and demographic transition are human geography.
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Denis Hayes
Denis Allen Hayes (born August 29, 1944) is an environmental advocate and an advocate for solar power.
Dependent and independent variables
A variable is considered dependent if it depends on an independent variable.
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Eco-economic decoupling
In economic and environmental fields, decoupling refers to an economy that would be able to grow without corresponding increases in environmental pressure.
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Ecological Economics (journal)
Ecological Economics.
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Ecological footprint
The ecological footprint measures human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people and their economies. I = PAT and ecological footprint are environmental social science concepts and human impact on the environment.
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Ecological indicator
Ecological indicators are used to communicate information about ecosystems and the impact human activity has on ecosystems to groups such as the public or government policy makers.
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Ecological restoration
Ecological restoration, or ecosystem restoration, is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Embodied energy
Embodied energy is the sum of all the energy required to produce any goods or services, considered as if that energy were incorporated or 'embodied' in the product itself.
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Environmental issues
Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems. I = PAT and Environmental issues are human impact on the environment.
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Environmentalist
An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with and/or advocates for the protection of the environment.
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Epiphenomenon
An epiphenomenon (plural: epiphenomena) is a secondary phenomenon that occurs alongside or in parallel to a primary phenomenon.
George Wald
George Wald (November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist and activist who studied pigments in the retina.
Global hectare
The global hectare (gha) is a measurement unit for the ecological footprint of people or activities and the biocapacity of the Earth or its regions.
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Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Human impact on the environment
Human impact on the environment (or anthropogenic environmental impact) refers to changes to biophysical environments and to ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans.
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Jevons paradox
In economics, the Jevons paradox (sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced. I = PAT and Jevons paradox are environmental social science concepts.
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John Holdren
John Paul Holdren (born March 1, 1944) is an American scientist who served as the senior advisor to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as assistant to the president for science and technology, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Journal of Cleaner Production
The Journal of Cleaner Production is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering transdisciplinary research on cleaner production.
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Kaya identity
The Kaya identity is a mathematical identity stating that the total emission level of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be expressed as the product of four factors: human population, GDP per capita, energy intensity (per unit of GDP), and carbon intensity (emissions per unit of energy consumed).
Land use
Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods. I = PAT and Land use are human geography.
Lead-acid battery
The lead-acid battery is a type of rechargeable battery first invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté.
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Lester R. Brown
Lester Russel Brown (born March 28, 1934) is an American environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and former president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day referred to him as "one of the great pioneer environmentalists." Brown is the author or co-author of over 50 books on global environmental issues and his works have been translated into more than forty languages.
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Life-cycle assessment
Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service.
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Lynn Steen
Lynn Arthur Steen (January 1, 1941 – June 21, 2015) was an American mathematician who was a professor of mathematics at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, in the U.S. He wrote numerous books and articles on the teaching of mathematics.
Malthusian growth model
A Malthusian growth model, sometimes called a simple exponential growth model, is essentially exponential growth based on the idea of the function being proportional to the speed to which the function grows. I = PAT and Malthusian growth model are population ecology.
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Nature conservation
Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity.
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Neal Koblitz
Neal I. Koblitz (born December 24, 1948) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington.
Overshoot (population)
In environmental science, a population "overshoots" its local carrying capacity — the capacity of the biome to feed and sustain that population — when that population has not only begun to outstrip its food supply in excess of regeneration, but actually shot past that point, setting up a potentially catastrophic crash of that feeder population once its food populations have been consumed completely. I = PAT and Overshoot (population) are environmental social science concepts and population ecology.
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Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth, including famine and resource depletion.
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Pigouvian tax
A Pigouvian tax (also spelled Pigovian tax) is a tax on any market activity that generates negative externalities (i.e., external costs incurred by third parties that are not included in the market price).
Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. I = PAT and Pollution are human impact on the environment.
Population control
Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population.
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Population growth
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. I = PAT and population growth are population ecology.
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Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.
Reason (magazine)
Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation, with the tagline "Free Minds and Free Markets".
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Rebound effect (conservation)
In energy conservation and energy economics, the rebound effect (or take-back effect) is the reduction in expected gains from new technologies that increase the efficiency of resource use, because of behavioral or other systemic responses.
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René Dubos
René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal.
Resource consumption
Resource consumption is about the consumption of non-renewable, or less often, renewable resources.
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Ronald Bailey
Ronald Bailey (born November 23, 1953) is an American libertarian science writer.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Sidney Dillon Ripley
Sidney Dillon Ripley II (September 20, 1913 – March 12, 2001) was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time. I = PAT and Sustainability are environmental social science concepts.
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Sustainability measurement
Sustainability measurement is a set of frameworks or indicators used to measure how sustainable something is.
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Sustainability metrics and indices
Sustainability metrics and indices are measures of sustainability, using numbers to quantify environmental, social and economic aspects of the world.
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Technology
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has been broadcast on NBC since 1954.
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
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Water footprint
A water footprint shows the extent of water use in relation to consumption by people.
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Wealth
Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.
World population
In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World3
The World3 model is a system dynamics model for computer simulation of interactions between population, industrial growth, food production and limits in the ecosystems of the earth.
See also
Technology assessment
- Alternatives assessment
- Collingridge dilemma
- Critical design
- Environmental impact assessment
- Exploratory engineering
- Future-oriented technology analysis
- Gartner hype cycle
- Global Strategic Trends Programme
- Health technology assessment
- Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol
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- NABERS
- Science fiction prototyping
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Techno-economic assessment
- Technology assessment
- Technology dynamics
- Technology readiness level
- Technology scouting
References
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