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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European Environment Agency

Environment; Environmental policy

The European Environment Agency (EEA) provides independent information and assessments on the state of the environment; environmental trends, including assessments of economic and social factors ...

The calculation of pollutant dispersion is based on the use of air dispersion models that mathematically simulate atmospheric conditions and behaviour. Dispersion models can provide concentration or ...

Tbilisi declaration

Environment; Environmental policy

Declaration of the Inter-governmental Conference on Environ-mental Education, Tbilisi, 1977. The declaration on the principles and strategies of environmental education in the contemporary world.

Aarhus Convention

Environment; Environmental policy

The convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters was adopted at Fourth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" ...

acceptable risk level

Environment; Environmental policy

Level of risk judged to be outweighed by corresponding benefits or one that is of such a degree that it is considered to pose minimal potential for adverse effects.

backcasting scenario

Environment; Environmental policy

It is a technique that often is pointed out as an opposite to forecasting. It involves identification of a particular scenarioand tracing its origins and lines of development back to the present.

safe minimum standard

Environment; Environmental policy

А restriction (taboo, prohibition, harvesting season) which limits the use of resources to levels that are thought to be safe, e.g. conservation of a sufficient area of habitat to ensure the ...