BIOL 315 Environmental Biology

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BIOL 315Environmental Biology
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The World Today

• Getting better or getting worse?
• Will things change?
• Should I be concerned?

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World Population
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Population Growth

• ExponentialGrowth

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Resources

• Perpetual

• Renewable

• Non-renewable

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Renewable Resources

• Sustainable Yield

• Environmental Degradation

• Tragedy of the Commons

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Non-Renewable Resources

• Energy Resources

• Metallic Resources

• Non-MetallicResources

• Reuse

• Recycle

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Pollution

• What is pollution?

• Effects of Pollution

Sources

• Point

• Nonpoint

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Environmental and Resource Problems

• Major Problems

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Environmental Impact
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Environmental Interactions
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Environmentally-Sustainable Economic Development
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Living More Sustainably

• Ecology

• Environmental Science

• Sustainable Society