Science & the Environment

describes conflicts associated with sharing resouces

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

• Ecology

Humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain prairies

• Agricultural Revolution

• Hunter-Gather Period

• Industrial Revolution

• Ecology

characterized by high population growth rate, extreme poverty

• Hunter Gatherer period

• Developing country

• Industrial Revolution

• Developed Country

plants and animals were domesticated, human populations grew

• Hunter-gatherer period

• Industrial Revolution

• Agriculture revolution

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

Natural material formed at much slower rate than it is depleted

• Pollution

• Resource Depletion

• Nonrenewable resource

• Ecology

Characterized by high personal wealth, and high levels of consumption

• Developing country

• Ecology

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

• Developed Country

The study of living things and their interaction with their nonliving environment

• Pollution

• Resource Depletion

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

• Ecology

Rate of resource use depletes resources and creates pollution and wastes

• Pollution

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

• Ecology

• Resource Depletion

society shifted to fossil fuels

• Hunter Gatherer period

• Agricultural Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

All the following disciplines are major contributors to the field of environmental science except

• biology and earth science

• chemistry and physics

• social sciences

• linguistics