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Sustainable Yield Management
Managing the exploitation of resources to ensure that they are not depleted and can be maintained over the long term.
Ecosystem-based Management
An integrated approach that considers the entire ecosystem, including humans, to achieve sustainable natural resource management.
Adaptive Management
A systematic process for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of operational programs.
Market-based Instruments
Economic tools and incentives used to encourage positive environmental practices or to provide disincentives for negative environmental impacts.
Command and Control Strategies
Regulatory approaches where the government sets standards or limits and enforces compliance with these regulations.
Community-based Management
A participatory approach involving the local community in managing and protecting natural resources.
Precautionary Principle
A strategy to cope with possible risks where scientific understanding is yet incomplete, emphasizing caution and preventive action in the face of uncertainty.
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
A process that promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land, and related resources to maximize economic and social welfare without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.
Bioregional Management
An approach to natural resource management that aligns with the natural boundaries of a biological region rather than political boundaries.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)
A market-based approach where the beneficiaries of ecosystem services compensate those who bear the cost of providing them.
Polluter Pays Principle
The principle where the polluting party bears the expenses of the environmental impact mitigation to prevent and control pollution.
Conservation Easements
A legal agreement that permanently limits uses of the land in order to protect its conservation values.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
The procedure that ensures that the environmental implications of decisions are taken into account before the decisions are made.
Natural Capital Accounting
A method for calculating the total stocks and flows of natural resources and services in a given ecosystem or region.
Mitigation Banking
A system that allows the restoration, creation, enhancement, or preservation of ecosystems to compensate for unavoidable impacts to similar nearby ecosystems.
Collaborative Governance
A governing arrangement where one or more public agencies engage non-state stakeholders in a collective decision-making process that is formal, consensus-oriented, and deliberative.
Carbon Pricing
A method for reducing global warming emissions by giving them a price that businesses and consumers then have to pay.
Zoning and Spatial Planning
The division of an area into zones to specify the allowable uses for real estate and land, which can include environmental conservations.
Land Trusts
Private nonprofit organizations that actively work to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions, or by their stewardship of such land or easements.
Corporate Environmental Responsibility
A business strategy that includes practices which promote environmental sustainability and reduce environmental impacts.
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