ENV310H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ecofeminism, Disruptive Innovation, Infant Mortality
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Adaptive governance: emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in the face of the complexity and uncertainty associated with rapid environmental change. Implement actions and monitoring: analyze use adapt, capture and share learning. Anthropocentric: is the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet (in the sense that they are considered to have a moral status or value higher than that of all other. Backcasting (reverse engineering) taking apart an object to see how it works in order to duplicate or enhance the object. The practice, taken from older industries, is now frequently used on computer hardware and software. Biocapacity: refers to the capacity of a given biologically productive area to generate an on-going supply of renewable resources and to absorb its spillover wastes. Unsustainability occurs if the area"s ecological footprint exceeds its biocapacity.
