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Definition of Terms

Environmental Awareness — Environmentalism is an ideology that evokes the


necessity and responsibility of humans to respect, protect, and preserve the natural
world from its anthropogenic afflictions.

Pollution — it is also called environmental pollution, the addition of any substance or


any form of energy to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed,
diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form.

Population — a population may refer to an entire group of people, objects, events,


hospital visits, or measurements. A population can thus be said to be an aggregate
observation of subjects grouped together by a common feature.

Sustainability — Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without


compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of
sustainability is composed of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social also
known informally as profits, planet, and people.

Sustainable development — it can be defined as development that meets the needs


of the present without compromising the ability of future generations.

Ecology — is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including


humans, and their physical environment; it seeks to understand the vital connections
between plants and animals and the world around them. Ecology also provides
information about the benefits of ecosystems and how we can use Earth’s resources
in ways that leave the environment healthy for future generations.

Awareness — is a state of being conscious of one’s self and one’s surroundings. A


state of being conscious and aware of one's awareness is called self awareness and
is considered a higher form of awareness. The science of biological psychology
defines awareness as perception and cognitive response to a situation or
circumstance.

Bioeconomics - it is the discipline originating from the synthesis of biology and


economics. Bioeconomics is a paradigmatic shift in the development of the
economy-environment disciplines such as natural resource economics,
environmental economics and ecological economics.

Self-stabilization - it is a particularly robust and appealing model of fault tolerance for


distributed computation.

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