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Adaptive Management
A U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service official checks on a prescribed burn to improve wildlife habitat in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in April 2008. The emphasis on continued monitoring and research in adaptive management projects provides vital data for future management efforts.
Photo credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Because of the complexity of the systems undergoing manipulation, efforts in ecological restoration have frequently been met with ambiguous outcomes and results. Biophysical complexity in terms of the structure and function of ecosystems is not the only confounding factor, however. Often, multiple competing social factors influence the outcomes and interpretations of ecological restoration work. In addition, scientific uncertainty and ambiguity can cloud the analysis of restoration success. Finally, environmental changes contribute the possibility of ...
- Anthropocentrism
- Attfield, Robin
- Animal Ethics
- Adaptive Management
- Carbon Offsets
- Environmental Justice Ecology, Radical
- Biocentrism
- Bailey, Liberty Hyde
- Anthropocentrism
- Agriculture
- Consumption, Business Ethics and
- Environmental Law
- Brundtland Report
- Berry, Reverend Fr. Thomas
- Biocentric Egalitarianism
- Biodiversity
- Consumption, Consumer Ethics and
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
- Club of Rome (and Limits to Growth)
- Berry, Wendell
- Biocentrism
- Bright Green Environmentalism
- Ecological Footprint
- Environmental Values and Law
- Death of Environmentalism, The
- Bookchin, Murray
- Civic Environmentalism
- Business Ethics, Shades of Green
- Ethical Vegetarianism
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- Earth Charter
- Borlaug, Norman
- Climate Ethics
- China
- Local Food Movement
- Green Ethics in the Legal Community
- Earth Day 1970
- Callicott, J. Baird
- Deep Ecology
- Conservation
- Marketing, Consumption Ethics and
- Green Law Trends
- Earth Summit
- Carson, Rachel
- Deep Green Theory
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Organic Trend
- Green Laws and Incentives
- Earthlife Africa
- d'Eaubonne, Françoise
- Ecocentrism
- Democracy
- Sustainability, Business Ethics and
- Post-Construction Landscape Laws
- Ecological Crisis, The Historical Roots of Our
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Ecofascism
- Development, Ethical Sustainability and
- Sustainability, Consumer Ethics and
- San Pedro Border Fence
- Endangered Species Act
- Fuller, Buckminster
- Ecofeminism/Ecological Feminism
- Ecological Restoration
- Western “Way of Life”
- Should Trees Have Standing?
- Environmental Ethics Journal
- Gandhi, Mohandas
- Economism
- Ecology
- Urban Tree Management Ordinances
- Environmental Policy Act, National
- Gore, Jr., Al
- Ecophenomenology
- Ecopedagogy and Ecodidactics
- Global Greens Charter
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Environmental Pluralism
- Ecopolitics
- Green Altruism
- Hargrove, Dr. Eugene C.
- Gaia Hypothesis
- Environmental Justice
- Land Ethic
- Hayes, Denis
- Green Party Ethical System, Four Pillars of the
- Environmental Policy
- Love Canal, Carter Administration and the
- Leopold, Aldo
- Hannover Principles
- Ethics and Science
- Philosophy and Environmental Crisis
- Lovelock, James Ephraim
- Human Values and Sustainability
- Genetic Engineering
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Marsh, George Perkins
- Instrumental Value
- Globalization
- Silent Spring
- Mathews, Freya
- Intergenerational Justice
- Green Liberalism
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Muir, John
- International Association of Environmental Philosophy
- Green Party, German
- United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
- Mumford, Lewis
- Intrinsic Value
- Greenwashing
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals
- Naess, Arne
- Kantian Philosophy and the Environment
- Precautionary Principle
- United Tasmania Group
- Passmore, John
- Marshall, Alan (Libertarian Extension)
- Preservation
- Wilderness Act of 1964
- Pinchot, Gifford
- Pragmatism
- Sierra Club
- Rolston, Holmes, III
- Strong and Weak Sustainability
- Social Ecology
- Singer, Peter
- Sustainability, Seventh Generation
- Sustainability and Spiritual Values
- Steffen, Alex
- Sustainability and Distributive Justice
- Technology
- Taylor, Paul W.
- Ten Key Values of the Greens
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Utilitarianism
- Urbanization
- Warren, Karen
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