adaptive environmental management
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adaptive environmental management
An adaptive management formulation that sees technocentric resource extraction as based on biophysically oversimplified, irrational, and short-term approaches. It recognizes non-linear feedback, and dynamic and unpredictable effects, and stresses a pragmatic and heuristic approach to management.
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