GEOG 5: People and the Earth's Ecosystems
School: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA )
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3Discussion of different types of forests, and the issues in terms of conservation and species invasion -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4Discussion of national forests - policy, uses, and potential problems -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3Discussion of drug agriculture, CA agriculture, plants as food, medicinal plants -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 5Discussion of important plants in today's society. -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 5Discussion of population growth throughout history and modern day. -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3Discussion of the origins of human life and they way in which humans and the environment has evolved throughout time. -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3Continued discussion of biomes and their characteristics -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 2Introduction to the idea of biomes. Discussion of key ideas in each biome. -
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 32Agriculture and Domestication Why did Hunter Gatherers Shift to Agriculture? Grain-Legume Complexes and Examples Centers of Domestication and some major crops The Green Revolution Environmental Impacts of Agriculture Strategies to counter the Env. Impacts of Agriculture Trophic Argument for Vegetarianism Top energy consumers by country total and per capital and more... -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 9-Biodiversity & Extinction -Concepts in Extinction & Biodiversity -Why Conserve Biodiversity? -Biodiversity & Public Policy -Ocean Resource Development, Geopolitics & the Law -Sea Boundaries & the Law -U.N. Conference on the Land of the Sea -UNCLOS III -Geopolitical & Resource Disputes -East China Sea -The South China Sea -Falkland Islands -Global Warming & the Arctic Sea -Boundary Disputes -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 6-Ground Water and Aquifer Depletion -South to North Water Transfer Project -Channelization and the Environment -Biological Diversity, Biogeography and Conservation -Patterns of Biodiversity -Biodiversity “Hot Spots” -Factors that tend to Promote Biodiversity -Factors that tend to reduce biodiversity -Habitat Fragmentation -Biodiversity and Extinction -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 8-International Climate Politics -Kyoto Protocol -Copenhagen Accord 2009 -Geopolitcs in the Arctic Sea -"Global Warming's Six Americas" (Lisowitz, 2009) -Cap and Trade Climate Legislation -Dams -Environmental Costs of Dams -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4-Earth-Sun Relations -The Green House Effect - Report by the intergovernmental panel on climate change [2007] - Cause of Recent Climate Change [IPCC, 2007] - Some Measureable Impacts - Positive feed-back systems may accelerate Climate Change - IPCC Report Flaws -Impacts of Global Warming on CA - -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 11-Natural Gas -Environmental Impacts -T.Boone Pickens -Nuclear Energy -Renewable Energy -Wind Energy -Biomass -Ethanol -US Energy Policy Approaches -Energy Consumption -What is Energy -Laws of energy (thermodynamics) -Why do humans need energy? -Sources of Energy - Energy use in developed & developing countries -Energy in California -Renewable energy resources -Direct/ Indirect Solar Energy - -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 7-Environmental Impacts of Agriculture -Soil Erosion -Declining Soil Fertility -Habitat Change & Reduced Biodiversity -Fertilizers & Eutrophication -Pollution from Pesticides & Herbicides -Air Pollution & Green House Gases -Energy & the Environment -Petroleum -Environmental Impacts of Oil -Coal -Acid -Natural Gas -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 11--Domestication -Diffusion of Agriculture -Southwest Asia -Fertile Crescent -China -Indus Valley -Egypt -Western Europe -Meso-America -Andes & Amazonia -New Guinea -Africa -North America -Grain & Legume Complexes -Hunter & Gathering People-Farmland The Green Revolution -Critiques -Genetic Modification -Meat -Food Chain -Vegetarianism -Environmental Impacts of Agriculture -Mitigate Soil Erosion -
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From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4-Paul Ehrlich -IPAT equation -Garrett Hardin -Lifeboat Ethics -The Cornucopian View -Ester Boserup -The Socio-Political View -Development Perspectives -China & Population -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3-Environmental Legislation (Carter) -1890s: Conservative Backlack -1890s Economy vs. Environmental Debates -Population, Poverty & the Environment - Demographic Perspectives on Population -Social Perspectives on Population & Poverty -Marx & Population -Contemporary Views on Population -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 4-Yosemite Valley -Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias -Thomas Jefferson -Niagara Falls -Legislation -Frederick Olmstead -James Mason Hutchens -John Muir -The Railroad -Death Valley -Nathanial P. Langford -Yellowstone -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 7-Gifford Pinchot -USFS -Bureau of Land Management -Characteristics of the Efficiency Movement -The Conservation v. Preservation Debate -Urban Environmental Movement -Great Depression & New Deal Environmentalism -Aldo Leopold -Rachel Carson -The Wilderness Act of 1964 -National Wilderness Preservation System -Overpopulation -Environmental Legislation under Richard Nixon -
From: GradeBuddy Pages: 3-Environmental History of the United States -The Colonial Encounter -Ecological Changes -Political Changes -Economic Changes -the "WIlderness" & Market -Disease Perceptions of Nature -The Aesthetic and Efficiency Movements -Environmental movement -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Henry David Thoreau -John Muir -Land policy expression -Conservation -The Progressive Era