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1.1: environmental value systems
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1.2: systems & models
System definition,
Systems approach,
Characteristics of a system
20
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1.3: energy & equilibria
1st law of thermodynamics,
2nd law of thermodynamics,
Entropy
16
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1.4: sustainability
Sustainability definition,
Sustainable development definition,
Inertia
17
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1.5: humans & pollution
Pollution definition,
Pollutant,
Major sources of pollution
27
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2.1: species & populations
Species definition,
Habitat definition,
Niche
28
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2.2: communities & ecosystems
Community,
Ecosystem,
Respiration
25
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2.3: flows of energy & matter
Ecological efficiency,
Productivity,
Primary productivity secondary pr...
19
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2.4: biomes, zonation and succession
Biomes,
Types of terrestrial aquatic biomes,
Deserts
17
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2.5: investigating ecosystems (NOT DONE)
A method to determine the populat...,
Lincoln index,
Simpson s diversity index
3
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3.1: biodiversity & conservation
Biodiversity definition,
Species diversity definition,
High low species diversity in wha...
16
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3.2: origins of biodiversity
Biodiversity arises from evolutio...,
Natural selection,
Speciation
11
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3.3: threats to biodiversity
Estimates of the total amt of spe...,
Rate of loss of biodiversity may ...,
Factors that help maintain biodiv...
20
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3.4: conservation of biodiversity
Reasons for preserving biodiversity,
Ecological reasons,
Economic value
14
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6.1 & 6.2
Atmosphere,
Greenhouse effect,
Stratosphere ozone
9
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6.3 & 6.4:
Primary pollutants secondary poll...,
Secondary pollutants,
Formation of tropospheric ozone
8
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8.1: human population dynamics
Demographics,
Reasons for the uncertainty in pr...,
Demographic tools for quantifying...
23
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8.2: resources use in society
Why do ecologically minded econom...,
What is renewable natural capital,
Non renewable natural capital is ...
13
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8.3: solid domestic waste
What is sdw,
Types of sdw,
Aims of a circular economy sustai...
12
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8.4: human population carrying capacity
What is carrying capacity,
What is ecological footprint,
Difficulties in measuring carryin...
8
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