Environment and Sustainable Development — Chapter Summary

Environment means the total planetary inheritance

Environment means the total planetary inheritance and the totality of all resources. It includes biotic and abiotic factors that affect one another.

Biotic elements include birds

Biotic elements include birds, animals, plants, forests and fisheries. Abiotic elements include air, water, land, rocks and sunlight.

The environment supplies resources

The environment supplies resources, assimilates waste, sustains life through genetic and bio diversity, and provides aesthetic services.

Renewable resources are those that can

Renewable resources are those that can be used without the possibility of becoming depleted or exhausted. Trees in forests and fishes in the ocean are

Non

Non-renewable resources get exhausted with extraction and use. Fossil fuel is the main example.