AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 6.11 Flashcards

A city and its metropolitan region meeting present social and economic needs while conserving resources, maintaining environmental quality, and preserving future generations’ ability to meet their needs

Low-density outward expansion of urban development across formerly rural, agricultural, or undeveloped land, usually with separated land uses and automobile dependence

The safe collection, treatment, and disposal of human waste, wastewater, solid waste, and stormwater

The higher temperatures of urban areas compared with nearby rural areas because of dark and dense built surfaces, limited vegetation, and waste heat

Mitigation reduces the causes of climate change; adaptation reduces vulnerability to its effects

The biologically productive land and water needed to supply a population’s consumed resources and absorb its wastes under prevailing technology

Coordination of land use, transportation, housing, infrastructure, environmental protection, and development across multiple metropolitan jurisdictions

A former or underused industrial or commercial property whose reuse is complicated by actual or possible contamination

Assessment, containment, removal, or treatment of contamination so that a brownfield can be safely reused

Returning a brownfield to productive use after addressing its contamination, thereby reusing urban land and infrastructure instead of peripheral land

Previously undeveloped land, often agricultural or natural land, that may be converted to urban development

A legally established line inside which urban development is permitted or encouraged and outside which it is restricted

Policies intended to prevent agricultural land near cities from being converted to residential, commercial, or industrial development