Environmental policy

Environmental policy

Policy related to managing human activities with a view to prevent, reduce, or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural resources.

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environmental awareness

Environment; Environmental policy

The growth and development of awareness, understanding and consciousness toward the biophysical environment and its problems, including human interactions and effects. Thinking „ecologically" or in ...

environmental conservation

Environment; Environmental policy

Efforts and activities to maintain and sustain those attributes in natural and urban environments which are essential both to human physical and mental health and to enjoyment of life.

environmental degradation

Environment; Environmental policy

Any action which makes the environment less fit for human, plant, or animal life. Also associated with the lowering and reduction of environmental quality.

environmental education

Environment; Environmental policy

The educational process that deals with the human inter-relationships with the environment and that utilizes an interdisciplinary problem-solving approach with value clarification. Concerned with ...

environmental education concepts

Environment; Environmental policy

Set of principles or general concepts (big ideas) which govern the cognitive content area in environmental education, e.g., that natural and cultural worlds are independent, natural resources ...

environmental education curricula

Environment; Environmental policy

The programmes, courses, and instructional materials on environmental education which are offered through an educational institution(s). Environmental education curricula can be included both as an ...

pollutant

Environment; Environmental policy

Any extraneous material or form of energy whose rate of transfer between two components (factors of the environment is changed so that the well being of organisms/ecosystems is negatively affected. ...