Chapter 20 Vocabulary Quiz

the careful and responsible management and care for Earth and its resources.

• Stewardship

• Environmentalism

• Ecocentric Worldview

• Valuation

a program of the United Nations responsible for gathering environmental information, conducting research, and assessing environmental problems.

• (EPA)

• (CaC) Command-and-Control Program

• (UNEP)

• United Nations Natural Capital Accord

a tax placed on environmentally harmful activities or emissions in an attempt to internalize some of the externalities that may be involved in the life cycle of those activities or products.

• Cap-and-Trade

• Green Tax

• United Nations Tarriff

• Worldview Fare

the study of how humans allocate scarce resources in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

• GPI

• EPA

• Economics

• Human Development Index

a strategy for pollution control that involves regulations and enforcement mechanisms.

• Valuation

• Cap-and-Trade

• Carbon Offsets

• Command-and-Control Approach

a worldview that places equal value on all living organisms and the ecosystems in which they live.

• Human Development Index

• Ecocentric Worldview

• Natural Capital

• Well-Being

the U.S. organization that oversees all governmental efforts related to the environment, including science, research, assessment, and education.

• (EPA)

• Command-and-Control Department

• Natural United Committee

• US Science Cabinet

an approach to controlling CO2 emissions, where a cap places an upper limit on the amount of pollutant that can be emitted and trade allows companies to buy and sell allowances for a given amount of pollution.

• (GPI)

• Natural Capital

• Manufactured Capital

• Cap-and-Trade

a measurement index that combines three basic measures of human status; life expectancy; knowledge and education.

• Human Development Index

• United Nations Happiness Quotient

• Offset Balance Program

• Leapfrogging

the practice of assigning monetary value to intangible benefits and natural capital.

• Well-Being Capitol

• (GPI)

• Valuation

• Stewardship