Ecological engineering — is an emerging of study integrating ecology and engineering, concerned with the design, monitoring and construction of ecosystems. The design of sustainable ecosystems intent to integrate human society with its natural environment for the benefit … Wikipedia
Ecological modernization — is an optimistic, reform oriented environmental discourse and school of environmental social science that has gained increasing attention among scholars and policymakers in the last several decades in Europe, North America, Japan, and elsewhere… … Wikipedia
Risk factors for breast cancer — Risk factors of breast cancer may be divided into preventable and non preventable. Their study belongs in the field of epidemiology. Breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is considered to result from multiple environmental and hereditary… … Wikipedia
Ecological extinction — Types and definitions of extinctions = Estes, Duggins, and Rathburn (1989) recognize three distinct types of extinction.Global extinction is defined as “the ubiquitous disappearance of a species. [Estes et al. The ecology of extinctions in kelp… … Wikipedia
Ecological facilitation — Facilitation describes species interactions that benefit at least one of the participants and cause harm to neither (Stachowicz 2001). Facilitations can be categorized as mutualisms, in which both species benefit, or commensalisms, in which one… … Wikipedia
Ecological island — An ecological island is not necessarily an island surrounded by water, but is an area of land, isolated by natural or artificial means from the surrounding land, where a natural micro habitat exists amidst a larger differing ecosystem. Also, in… … Wikipedia
Social ecological model — The Social Ecological Model, also called Social Ecological Perspective, is a framework to examine the multiple effects and interrelatedness of social elements in an environment. SEM can provide a theoretical framework to analyze various contexts… … Wikipedia
Extinction risk from climate change — The extinction risk of climate change is the risk species have of becoming extinct due to the effects of global warming.The scientific consensus in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is that Anthropogenic warming could lead to some impacts that… … Wikipedia
Climate risk — means a risk resulting from climate change and affecting natural and human systems and regions. In the course of increasing global temperature and extreme weather phenomena the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been founded by… … Wikipedia
Boggs Lake Ecological Reserve — Infobox Protected area name = Boggs Lake Ecological Reserve iucn category = Ia caption = base width = locator x = locator y = location = Lake County, California, U.S. nearest city = Clearlake, California lat degrees= 38 |lat minutes= 53 |lat… … Wikipedia
environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… … Universalium