Title

1. Environment
(natural & built)

2. Equity and Quality of Life

---Select All Relevant Subcategories--- Affordable housing Colonias along the U.S.-Mexican border Environmental justice Living wage Digital divide Education and workforce development Affordable health care Discrimination Income distribution Immigration and multiculturalism

---Select One or More Key Terms--- Regional ecology Globalization Natural capital Social capital Planning theory Civil society Ecological economics Social learning Innovation Epistemology Social Justice Toxicogenomics Environmental Services Distributed Intelligence Federation Network Ecology Environmental Justice Carrying capacity Assimilative capacity Capacity building Development Growth Endogenous development Epidemiology Human capital Cultural capital Basic needs Sustainable development Biogeochemical cycle Political ecology Coevolution Sustainability Social ecology Land ethic Stewardship Appropriate technology Biotechnology Environmental externalities Common property resources Tragedy of the commons Global commons Ecological footprint Maquiladoras Untraded interdependencies City-region Ecosystem management Basin plan Regional Comprehensive Plan Environmental risk assessment Environmental impact assessment ISO 14000 Life cycle assessment EMS Industrial Ecology CERES Principles Agenda 21 Biodiversity Climate change Coastal zone Integrated coastal management Ozone layer depletion Asian Brown Cloud Global warming Non-point source pollution

Note: This list of key concepts needs pruning, additions/deletions, and priortization. What terms would you propose? To succeed in enabling meaningful communication across academic divisions requires a meta-ontology and definitions of basic concepts. Perhaps we can agree on 20 - 40 key terms as a starting point. The list can be modified as we "learn-by-doing."