Vector-borne Disease - Define: Disease that results from an infection transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas.
Example: Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, and malaria.
Significance: As deforestation and global warming...
CGC Exam 2 Questions and Answers
Vector-borne Disease - Define: Disease that results from an infection transmitted to
humans and other animals by blood-feeding arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks,
and fleas.
Example: Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, and malaria.
Significance: As deforestation and global warming occurs, humans are in closer
proximity to animals and biodiversity decreases, exponentially increasing the odds
of the spread of disease.
Threat Multipliers - Define: the idea that climate change intersects with other
factors to contribute to security problems
Example/Significance: Water crises can increase State fragility and act as a threat
multiplier. As the Secretary-General observed, climate change must be seen as a
threat multiplier. Climate change is a threat multiplier that impacts our security and
peace.
Non-diversified economy - Define: A economy that is dependent on a certain area
of product or service.
Example: The tourism centered economy in the Bahamas.
Significance: this type of economy is very fragile as when you only depend on one
source of something if it doesn't work out in this case the economy would crash.
, Grassroot Collaborations - Define: A group of people in a district, region, or
community that organize in order to create change at a local, regional, national, or
international level.
Example: Elizabeth River Project
Significance: A way that a group of individuals can better their environment in
their local communities or in a larger scale.
Watershed Restorations - Define: Restoration of a watershed returns the ecosystem
to as close an approximation as possible of its state prior to a specific incident or
period of deterioration. Restoration can be divided into two broad categories—
reestablishment and rehabilitation.
Example: Correcting the damage from a sewage or chemical spill
Significance: Watershed restorations can help us undo the damage we have done to
our watersheds
Resource extraction - Define: the taking of resources in the territory of one nation
or ethnic group by an outside power, basis of colonialism and the modern global
economy
Example: hunting, mining, oil and gas drilling, and forestry. **The gold mining in
Central America which produced harmful chemicals that leeched into the soil and
water making the land unsuitable for life.
Significance: It provides humans with valuable commodities. However, such
practices can lead to severe and irreversible environmental impacts.
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