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Promoting bioregionalism
Synonyms:
Providing sufficient bio-regionalist perspective
Offering adequate bioregionalism
Broader:
Building ecological context
Developing regional perspective
Applying bioregionalism
Narrower:
Managing biogeographic units
Accounting for bioregional interactions
Promoting regional agricultural systems
Producing environmental resource inventories
Establishing zones for sustainable development
Using ecosystem approach for settlement planning
Integrating environmental concerns in regional development policies
Strengthening databases on demographic trends and environment by ecological region
Recognizing role of regional economic and technical organizations in solving environmental issues
Constrained by:
Abstaining from bioregionalism
Facilitates:
Protecting regional environments
Improving inter-agency regional cooperation to halt environmental degradation
Facilitated by:
Regionalizing environmental health
Preparing national environmental synopses
Creating national environmental warning systems
Offering environmental health studies for young people
Funding scientific information networks on the environment
Improving cooperation among environmental research programmes
Publishing national, regional and global environmental audits
Promoting regional and sub-regional cooperation on environmental protection
Supporting regional training programmes on environmental planning and management
Improving organizational cooperation at the regional level in the follow up to Agenda 21
Problems:
Ignorance of ecoregions
Unnatural boundaries between states
Values:
Perspective
Organizations:
European Regional Science Association
References:
McGinnis, Michael Vincent: Bioregionalism
Subjects:
Biosciences
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Biology
Metapolitics
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Political theories
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies