05+Chelsea


 * Glossary **

__//**Who is involved?**//__


 * // Independent Pressure Groups //**
 * // e.g. Greenpeace, influence the public and thus the government usually through awareness campaigns //**
 * // They are also referred to as NGO's (non-government organisations) //**

in particular MNC's (multi-national corporations) and TNC's (trans-national corporations) supply consumer demand and in doing so using resources and creating environmental impact
 * // Corporate Businesses //**

Create authoritative policies and apply legislation regarding environmental issues. Different countries are at different levels of environmental awareness but we are all aware that we must be collectively involved in finding solutions to the issues facing the Earth.
 * // Government //**

e.g. United Nations, have become highly influential in more recent times by holding summits which bring together NGO's, governments and corporations to consider environmental welfare
 * // Intergovernmental Bodies //**


 * __//The growth of modern environmental movement//__**

10 000 years ago humans started to become farmers rather than nomadic hunter-gatherers. It required learning to manage local resources (water, food, fuel) sustainably around the settlement
 * //Neolithic Agricultural Revolution//**

Over the past 200 years population growth and resource has escalated at an unprecedented. The Revolution in Europe during the 1800's produced goods and services for the masses at the expensive of land being cleared, the pollution of waterways and increased population density. This movement resulted in the arise of the //**urban consumer society**//.
 * //Industrial Revolution//**

Early conservationists spoke of a loss of 'wilderness' but the general idea of the time was that the world contained an infinite supply of resources.
 * //Conservationists//**


 * //Preservationists//**

Occurred during the 1940's to 1960's, mechanised agriculture and boosted food production, generated the neccessity for new machines and enormous burning of fossil fuels. Technology was applied to agriculture for the first time however the impacts that followed resounded globally - collapsing fish stocks, endangered species, nuclear waste. The human population grew to about 3 billion over this period of time.
 * //Green Revolution//**

A new breed of environmentalists who had scientific backgrounds highlighted such impacts to the public and the idea eventually spread throughout the media, government and NGO's.
 * //Environmentalists//**

In the mid 1960's philosophers formed a new area of environmental philosophy and argued that nature had it's own intrinsic value besides its value to humans. A major shift in this field was the move from regarding the environment as a resilient, infinite provider to regarding humans as a steward responsible for caring for the environment - thus the term 'stewardship'
 * //Stewardship//**

the [|biosphere] and the physical components of the [|Earth] ([|atmosphere], [|cryosphere] , [|hydrosphere] and [|lithosphere] ) are closely integrated to form a [|complex interacting system] that maintains the [|climatic] and [|biogeochemical] conditions on Earth in a preferred [|homeorhesis]
 * //The Gaia Theory//**


 * Environmental Issues in the News **


 * Pressure Groups **