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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Multidisciplinary approach

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The combined utilisation of selected disciplines/specialists wherein each is assigned a portion or segment of a given environmental problem their partial recommendations are linked together at the ...

Conservation standards

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Normative documents, standards of optimum natural conditions, determined by the competent agencies to be the criterion of the human and animals environment.

Integrated control

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Combating pests, diseases and weeds in agriculture and forestry using the combination of agrotechnical, biological and chemical methods.

Chemical control

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The use of chemicals (pesticides) to destroy or decrease the number of animals or plants that belong to species undesirable to people.

International development strategy

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(Third United Nations Development Decade during the 1980's) Strategy aims include redressing the inequities in relations between developed and less developed states, establishing a more dynamic, more ...

International environmental law

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The important form of international environmental action is the development of international environmental law. Strong international conventions or agreements provide a legally binding means of ...

Land use planning

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The interdisciplinary process of evaluating, organizing, and controlling the present and the future development and use of lands and their resources in terms of their suitability on sustained yield ...