ELECTIVEII:ECOLOGY FOR ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING-ASSIGNMENT 1

TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS

BASED ON ECOLOGY

PRESENTED BY,
AR.JELITTA ELIZABATH SABU,
SEMESTER 1,M.ARCH (S.A.),
MES SOA,KUTTIPURAM
DECEMBER 2019

SUBMITTED TO:
PROFF.AR.NITHIN NARAYAN
 TERMINOLOGIES IDENTIFIED:
1.ECOLOGY
16.BIODIVERSITY
2.ECOSYSTEM 17.BIOMASS
3.BIO CLIMATE
4.ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
5.SUSTAINABILITY
6.BIOSPHERICAL LIMITS
7.ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
8.BIOREGIONALISM
9.BIO URBANISM
10.INTER-GENERATIONAL
EQUITY
11.EMBODIED ENERGY
12.BIOMES
13.PYRAMIDAL BIOMASS
14.REGIONAL SCALES
15.BIOME

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 1.ECOLOGY: https://biologydictionary.net/ecology/
Ecology is the branch of biology that studies how organisms
interact with their environment and other organisms.
Example: Some ecologists studies humans, their effect on each
other and other organisms, and their effects on the environment.

2.ECOSYSTEM:
https://biologydictionary.net/ecosystem/
An ecosystem is a large community of living organisms (plants,
animals and microbes) in a particular area. The living and physical
components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy
flows.
Ecosystems are of any size, but usually they are in particular places.
Examples of ecosystems are: agro ecosystem, aquatic ecosystem,
coral reef, desert, forest, human ecosystem, littoral zone,
marine ecosystem, prairie, rainforest, savannas,, tundra, urban
 ecosystem and others.

3.BIOCLIMATE:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bioclimate
A climate as it influences, and is influenced by, biological
organisms or pertaining to the relationship between living things
and climate.
MESExample: Basic
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4.ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/08/which-countries-are-in-
ecological-debt/
The Ecological Footprint is the area of land and water it takes for a
human population to generate the renewable resources it consumes,
and to absorb the corresponding waste it generates, using prevailing
technology. In other words, it measures the “quantity of nature” that
we use and compares it with how much “nature” we actually have.
On the other hand, bio capacity is the capacity of biosphere to
regenerate and provide for life, on current demand trends. It compares
the material metabolism of human economies with what nature can
renew.

5.SUSTAINABILITY:
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability
A process or state can be maintained at a certain level for as long as
it is wanted.
Sustainability relates to the connection
of economic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of
human society as well as the non-human environment.
One of the most often-cited definitions of sustainability is the one
created by the Brundtland Commission, led by the former Norwegian
Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The Commission
defined sustainable development as development that "meets the
needs
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6.BIOSPHERICAL LIMITS:
The Limits of Life in the Biosphere
(https://link.springer.com/chapter/)
The extreme limits of life in the biosphere probably represent absolute
conditions for all organisms.
These limits are reached when anyone of these conditions, which can
be expressed as independent variables of equilibrium, becomes
insurmountable for living matter; it might be temperature, chemical
composition, ionization of the medium, or the wavelength of
radiations.

7.ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences
The United States Environmental Protection Agency
defines environmental justice as the fair treatment and meaningful
involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or
income with respect to the development, implementation, and
enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. In other
words, your health should not suffer because of the environment
where you live, work, play or learn.

8.BIO REGIONALISM :
greenerideal.com/news/environment/0209-what-is-bioregionalism
Bioregionalism transcends the socially defined borders of our world.
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9.BIO URBANISM
http://www.biourbanism.org/biourbanism-definition/
Bio urbanism focuses on the urban organism, considering it as a
hyper complex system, according to its internal and external
dynamics and their mutual interactions.
The urban body is composed of several interconnected layers of
dynamic structure, all influencing each other in a non-linear manner.

10.INTER-GENERATIONAL EQUITY
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-
sciences/intergeneration
Intergenerational equity represents a widely recognized principle of
international environmental law providing for the preservation of
natural resources and the environment for the benefit of future
generations.
It has roots in the 1972 Stockholm Declaration [69] and forms a core
tenet of sustainable development frameworks [70].

11. EMBODIED ENERGY

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/embodied-energy
Embodied energy (EE) is the amount of energy required to extract,
process and transport a material to the point of use or application.
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12.BIOMES:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/biome/
A biome is an area of the planet that can be classified according to
the plants and animals that live in it. Temperature, soil, and the
amount of light and water help determine what life exists in a biome.

A biome is different from an ecosystem. An ecosystem is the

interaction of living and nonliving things in an environment.
A biome is a specific geographic area notable for the species living
there. A biome can be made up of many ecosystems.
Example: an aquatic biome can contain ecosystems such as coral
reefs and kelp forests.

13.PYRAMIDAL BIOMASS:
https://www.eartheclipse.com/ecosystem/pyramid-of-biomass-
definition-examples.html
A pyramid of biomass is a graphical representation of biomass
present in a unit area of various tropic levels.
It shows the relationship between biomass and tropic level
quantifying the biomass available in each tropic level of an energy
community at a given time.

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14.REGIONAL SCALES:
https://urbanwatercyclesolutions.com/regions/
The Systems Framework includes links and feedback loops with
surrounding regions from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and
provides understanding of regional scale outcomes or footprint
effects.
These linked regional processes also include energy, climate and
economic influences – such as impacts of the status of a national
economy on local behaviour and creation of employment.

15.BIOME:
gios/SCENE/Ecology%20Definitions.pdf
Major regional ecological community characterized by distinctive
life forms, climate and principal plant (terrestrial) or animal
(marine) species.

16.BIODIVERSITY
gios/SCENE/Ecology%20Definitions.pdf
The number of different species within a given geographical
region.
Biodiversity is not only the sum of all ecosystems, species and
genetic material. Rather, it represents the variability within and
among
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SOA,M.ARCH It can be distinguished from the expression
14.BIOMASS:
https://urbanwatercyclesolutions.com/regions/

15. BIOTIC POTENTIAL

gios/SCENE/Ecology%20Definitions.pdf
The highest level of physical development and reproduction
attainable by an organism, when all conditions are perfect.

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