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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irreversibility priority

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Key criterion. Highest priority given to significant, urgent requirements to prevent further irreversible damage to living resources, e.g., extinction of species, loss of life support systems. etc.

significance priority

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How important a given requirement is in relationship to other requirements as well as its effects on people, living resources, etc.

urgency priority

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A function of the rate at which a significant problem will get worse if the requirement is not met and of the time required to meet that requirement.

producers

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Mainly green plants that synthesize their own organic compounds from inorganic substances. Self nourishing and the first group in the food chain.

indicator species

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A species whose presence, absence, distribution, or abundance can be used to measure the effect of some influence, action, or factor on the biotic community, e.g., pollution, development, etc.

World population is small and „at risk" but not yet endangered or vulnerable. However, it would be possible to endanger them, or even make them extinct, with sudden or anticipated changes. This is ...