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Developed Country
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Country that is highly industrialized and has a high per capita GNP.
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Developing country
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Country that has low to moderate industrialization and low to moderate per capita GNP. Most are located in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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Ecology
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Study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their nonliving environment of matter and energy; study of the structure and functions of nature.
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Economic growth
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Increase in the capacity to provide people with goods and services produced by an economy; an increase in gross domestic product (GDP).
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Environment
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All external conditions and factors, living and nonliving (chemicals and energy), that affect an organism or other specified system during its lifetime.
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Environmental science
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An interdisciplinary study that uses information from the physical sciences and social sciences tolerant how the earth works, how we interact with the earth, and how to deal with environmental problems.
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Environmentalism
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A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth’s life support systems for us and other species.
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Exponential growth
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Growth in which some quantity, such as population size or economic output, increases at a constant rate per unit of time. An example is the growth sequence 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and so on; when the increase in quantity over time is plotted, this type of growth yields a curve shaped like the letter J. Compare linear growth.
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Gross domestic product (GDP)
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Annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations, foreign and domestic, operating within a country.
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Natural capital
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See natural resources.
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Perpetual resource
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An essentially inexhaustible resource on a human time scale. Solar energy is an example. Compare nonrenewable resource, renewable resource.
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Resource
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Anything obtained from the living and nonliving environment to meet human needs and wants. It can also be applied to other species.
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Solar capital
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Solar energy from the sun reaching the earth. Compare natural resources.
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Sustainability
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Ability of a system to survive for some specified (finite) time.
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Affluenza
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Unsustainable addiction to overconsumption and materialism exhibited in the lifestyles of affluent consumers in the United States and other developed countries.
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