Chapter 1.2 Flashcards
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Resilience
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The capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, feedbacks and identity.
2
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Sustainable Development
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Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
3
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Adaptive environmental management
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A structured, systematic approach to environmental management
that treats policy and management interventions as deliberate experiments
to test hypotheses and monitor and evaluate the outcomes
in order to refine policies and actions as new knowledge and understanding are gained.
