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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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Moral values
Environment; Environmental policy
The level of moral qualities related to man or social group and determined by their attitudes to the environment and social achievements.
Endangered species
Environment; Environmental policy
In danger of extinction; survival unlikely if the casual factors (threats) continue to operate. It is recognised that numerous endangered species (as well as other threatened categories of species) ...
Values judgement
Environment; Environmental policy
An estimate and/or less subjective opinion about the worth, good, desirability, negativety, harm, etc. , of a thing action, proposal, or entity. Values judgments influence the selection and ...
Rare species
Environment; Environmental policy
World population is small and „at risk" but not yet endangered or vulnerable. However, it would be possible to endanger them, or even make them extinct, with sudden or anticipated changes. This is ...
Social values
Environment; Environmental policy
Social achievements in science art, psychology as well as the high moral and ethic qualities of people, social classes, society, which are determined by their attitude to the social progress and by ...
Diversity species
Environment; Environmental policy
The number of different species occuring in a given location or under some condition. The ratio between the number of species in a biotic community and number of individuals in a given species. ...
Indicator species
Environment; Environmental policy
A species whose presence, absence, distribution, or abundance can be used to measure the effect of some influence, action, or factor on the biotic community, e.g., pollution, development, etc.
