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= Managing the Global Environment: The Drive Towards a Sustainable World = =Vocabulary: = 1. Progress toward sustainable development 2. Current global environmental trends 3. Global climate warming 4. Tropical deforestation 5. Biodiversity decline 6. Land degradation 7. Overexploitation of marine fisheries 8. Urban air pollution 9. Additional environmental threats 10. International institutions to manage the environment 11. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) 12.The Earth Summit 13. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 14. Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">15. Convention on Biological Diversity <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">16. Agenda 21 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">17. Progress since UNCED <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">18. Kyoto protocol <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">19. Commission on Sustainable Development <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">20. Earth Summit +5 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">21. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">22. Yeoman environmentalist <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">23. Monitoring environmental change with remote sensing <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">24. Remote sensing systems <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">25. Electromagnetic energy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">26. Aerial photography <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">27. Digital cameras <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">28. Line scanners <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">29.Thermal infrared scanners <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">30. Side looking radar <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">31. Digital data <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">32. Aircraft remote sensing <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">33. National Aerial Photography Program <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">34. Satellite remote sensing <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">35. Meteorology satellites (metsats) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">36. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">37. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">38. Upper Atmosphere Research Satellites (UARS) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">39. Aqua <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">40. Terra <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">41. Quick bird <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">42. Earth resources satellites 43. Landsat 44. SPOT 45. IKONOS 46. Radar satellites 47. Seasat 48. Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) 49. Radarsat 50. Mission to Planet Earth 51. Earth Science Enterprise 52.Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 53. Data input 54. Data manipulation and analyses 55. Information output 56. Global change research and GIS 57. GIS and climate change 58. GIS and hydrologic systems 59. Ecosystem modeling and GIS 60. Human interactions and GIS 61. Organizations studying global environmental change