Business & Society Key Terms Ch.10-18
Chapter 10 Terms
1. Biodiversity
a. The number and variety of species and the range of their genetic makeup.
2. Carbon Neutrality
a. When an organization or individual produces net zero emissions of greenhouse gases.
3. Carbon Offset
a. Investments in projects that remove carbon dioxide or its equivalent from the atmosphere.
4. Carrying Capacity
a. The maximum populations that the Earth’s ecosystem can support at a certain level of technological development.
5. Commons
a. Traditionally, an area of land on which all citizens could graze their animals without limitation. The term no refers to any shared resource, such as land, air, or water, which a group of people use collectively.
6. Eco-Efficiency
a. Occurs when business or societies are simultaneously economically efficient and environmentally responsible.
7. Ecological Footprint
a. One method of measuring the earth’s carrying capacity, and how far human society has exceeded it.
8. Ecology
a. The study of how living things-plants and animals-interact with one another in the Earth’s unified natural system or ecosystem.
9. Extended Product Responsibility
a. The idea that companies have a continuing responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products and services, even after that are sold.
10. Global Warming
a. The gradual warming of the earth’s climate, believed by most scientist to be caused by an increase in carbon dioxide and other trace gases in the earth’s atmosphere resulting from human activity, mainly the burning of fossil fuels.
11. Industrial ecology
a. Designing factories and distribution systems as if they were self-contained ecosystems, such as using waste from one process as raw material for another.
12. Kyoto Protocol
a. An international treaty negotiated in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, that continued its signatories to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide.
13. Life-Cycle Analysis
a. Collecting information on the lifelong environmental impact of
1. Biodiversity
a. The number and variety of species and the range of their genetic makeup.
2. Carbon Neutrality
a. When an organization or individual produces net zero emissions of greenhouse gases.
3. Carbon Offset
a. Investments in projects that remove carbon dioxide or its equivalent from the atmosphere.
4. Carrying Capacity
a. The maximum populations that the Earth’s ecosystem can support at a certain level of technological development.
5. Commons
a. Traditionally, an area of land on which all citizens could graze their animals without limitation. The term no refers to any shared resource, such as land, air, or water, which a group of people use collectively.
6. Eco-Efficiency
a. Occurs when business or societies are simultaneously economically efficient and environmentally responsible.
7. Ecological Footprint
a. One method of measuring the earth’s carrying capacity, and how far human society has exceeded it.
8. Ecology
a. The study of how living things-plants and animals-interact with one another in the Earth’s unified natural system or ecosystem.
9. Extended Product Responsibility
a. The idea that companies have a continuing responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products and services, even after that are sold.
10. Global Warming
a. The gradual warming of the earth’s climate, believed by most scientist to be caused by an increase in carbon dioxide and other trace gases in the earth’s atmosphere resulting from human activity, mainly the burning of fossil fuels.
11. Industrial ecology
a. Designing factories and distribution systems as if they were self-contained ecosystems, such as using waste from one process as raw material for another.
12. Kyoto Protocol
a. An international treaty negotiated in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, that continued its signatories to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide.
13. Life-Cycle Analysis
a. Collecting information on the lifelong environmental impact of