The zone between protected wild land and land being developed.
The 750-mile active zone between he Pacific and North American plates that runs from San Francisco down to southern California.
Attempts to reduce climate change
A large sea wave resulting from a tectonic shift.
The growing interdependence across national boundaries of economic flows and transactions.
An indicator used to describe and measure the number of distinct plant and animal species in a given geographical area.
A term describing how material becomes a resource when it is valued and traded, has a price equivalent, and it enters the arena of things bought and sold.
A change in climate that takes different forms across the globe.
A measure of the number of individuals below 14 and over 65 when compared to the total working aged population.
The ability to meet the needs of the present without destroying the needs of the future.
A term denoting the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, which resulting in vast demographic changes to indigenous populations.
The period around 1800, centered in Britain, in which manufacturers rapidly discovered and implemented new ways of creating products.
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