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Planning and management
Natural resource governance
Climate and energy
Energy
Food systems (Land & Sea)
100
Differing values, resource uses and communication issues during a planning process can lead to [blank]
What is Conflict
100
This perspective of governance calls for a minimization of the role of government and the privatization of natural resources
What is Neoliberalism
100
Various mathematical and computerized approaches for determining past climate trends in an effort to build scenarios predicting future climate
What are climate models
100
Voluntary agreements between extractive industries and communities that go beyond formal impact assessment requirements, and are intended to facilitate extraction of resources in a way that contributes to the economic and social well-being of local people and communities (associated with the concept of corporate-social responsibility)
What are Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs)
100
The movement of carbon-saturated water around the globe, mainly as a result of differing water densities.
What is Thermohaline circulation.
200
A negotiation process guided by a facilitator.
What is Mediation
200
This perspective of natural resource issues is instrumental, focusing on a single context/problem and on the implementation of policy, and is best suited to problems with a distinct beginning and end.
What is a management perspective
200
The sum total of atmospheric conditions (temperature, pressure, winds, moisture, and precipitation) in a particular place for a short period of time.
What is weather
200
Acidic drainage from waste rock and mine tailings caused by the oxidization of iron sulphides to create sulphuric acid, which in turn dissolves residual metals.
What is Acid Mine Drainage
200
Development in agricultural technologies in the 1950s and early 1960s resulting in high-yield crop varieties, increased farm mechanization, and the advent of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
What is the Green Revolution
300
Persons or groups with a legal responsibility relative to a problem or issue, or likely to be affected by decisions or actions regarding the problem or issue, or able to pose an obstacle to a solution of the problem or issue.
What are Stakeholders
300
This perspective of environmental issues is holistic, systems-oriented (natural, social, political economic), better suited to address complex, multi-faceted and multi-scalar issues, and able to integrate diverse knowledge systems.
What is a governance perspective
300
Adjustment to different or changing circumstances, such as when insurance companies modify their claims forecasting and setting of premiums with regard to future climate change conditions.
What is Adaptation
300
These greenhouse gases are released through the use of biomass fuels.
What are Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Methane (CH4)
300
One of the most destructive means of fishing in which heavy nets are dragged along the sea floor scooping up everything in their path
What is Bottom Trawling
400
An assessment that identifies and predicts the impacts from development proposals on both the biophysical environment and on human health and wellbeing.
What is an EIA
400
Intergovernmental organization, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), corporations (multinational, transnational...), civil society, and citizens/resources users are this type of governing actor
What is Non-state governing actors
400
A set of emission reduction targets, afforestation initiatives, financing and temperature goals determined by a group of different countries.
What are climate agreements
400
A method of agriculture in which farmers aim to maximize biodiversity, recycle locally available natural resources to enhance soil fertility, emphasize the interactions and productivity across the agricultural system, integrate local/traditional knowledge, and strive for a socially equitable and resilient food system.
What is Agroecology
500
A management concept including such key attributes as learning-by doing, integrating different knowledge systems, collaborating and power-sharing among community, regional, and national levels, and managing for flexibility
What is Adaptive co-management
500
The process of assigning an economic value to aspects of the environment in order for them to be bought and sold in markets
What is commodification
500
This impact of climate change brings about increases in climate refugees, agricultural losses and food shortage, as well as losses of life, property and livelihoods (among other impacts).
What are extreme weather events
500
This method of energy production is based on kinetic energy driven by the movement of air heated by the sun.
What is Wind Power
500
In this local food strategy, consumers purchase shares in a farm and receive a portion of the produce during the growing season, allowing farmers to gain a stable income and cut out middlemen.
What is Community-supported agriculture (CSAs)