Concept information

environmental management > ecosystem-based management

Preferred term

ecosystem-based management  

Definition

  • approach to maintaining or restoring the composition, structure, function, and delivery of services of natural and modified ecosystems for the goal of achieving sustainability, based on an adaptive, collaboratively developed vision of desired future conditions that integrates ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional perspectives, applied within a geographic framework, and defined primarily by natural ecological boundaries

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URI

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/15142

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