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Bioregionalism

Index Bioregionalism

Bioregionalism is a political, cultural, and ecological system or set of views based on naturally defined areas called bioregions, similar to ecoregions. [1]

51 relations: Arkansas, Beaver Hills (Alberta), Bioregion, Border, British Columbia Coast, California, Cascadia (independence movement), Culture, Deep ecology, Doug flag, Drainage basin, Eco-communalism, Ecological footprint, Ecology, Ecoregion, Elk Island National Park, Enemy, Environmentalism, Gary Snyder, Geo-fence, Grassroots democracy, Green anarchism, Green party, Idaho, Indigenous (ecology), Kansas, Kirkpatrick Sale, Lists of ecoregions, Local food, Man and the Biosphere Programme, Missouri, Mother Jones (magazine), Natural resource, Nature, Oklahoma, Oregon, Ozarks, Permaculture, Peter Berg (bioregionalist), Politics, Proactivity, Protest, Social ecology, Soil, Southeast Alaska, Sustainability, Terrain, University of California, Davis, Washington (state), Western Montana, ..., Wilderness. Expand index (1 more) »

Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Beaver Hills (Alberta)

The Beaver Hills (lit), also known as the Beaver Hills Moraine and the Cooking Lake Moraine, are a rolling upland region in Central Alberta, just to the east of Edmonton, the provincial capital.

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Bioregion

A bioregion is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than an ecozone, but larger than an ecoregion or an ecosystem, in WWF classification scheme.

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Border

Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities.

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British Columbia Coast

The British Columbia Coast or BC Coast is Canada's western continental coastline on the North Pacific Ocean.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cascadia (independence movement)

Cascadia is a bioregion and proposed country located within the western region of North America.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Deep ecology

Deep ecology is an ecological and environmental philosophy promoting the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus a radical restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.

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Doug flag

The Doug flag, also referred to as the Cascadian flag or the Cascadia Doug flag and nicknamed "Old Doug" Note: Reprinted by the Discovery Institute.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Eco-communalism

Eco-communalism (shorthand for "ecological communalism") is an environmental philosophy based on ideals of simple living, self-sufficiency, sustainability, and local economies.

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Ecological footprint

The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy.

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Elk Island National Park

Elk Island National Park (parc national Elk Island) is a national park in Canada that played an important part in the conservation of the American bison.

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Enemy

An enemy or a foe is an individual or a group that is verified as forcefully adverse or threatening.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters.

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Geo-fence

A geo-fence is a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area.

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Grassroots democracy

Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes where as much decision-making authority as practical is shifted to the organization's lowest geographic or social level of organization.

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Green anarchism

Green anarchism (or eco-anarchism) is a school of thought within anarchism which puts a particular emphasis on environmental issues.

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Green party

A Green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Indigenous (ecology)

In biogeography, a species is defined as indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only natural process, with no human intervention.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Kirkpatrick Sale

Kirkpatrick Sale (born June 27, 1937) is an independent scholar and author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology.

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Lists of ecoregions

Wikipedia has articles relating to two separate ecoregion classification systems.

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Local food

Local food (local food movement or locavore) is a movement of people who prefer to eat foods which are grown or farmed relatively close to the places of sale and preparation.

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Man and the Biosphere Programme

Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific programme, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.

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Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Ozarks

The Ozarks, also referred to as the Ozark Mountains and Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

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Permaculture

Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems.

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Peter Berg (bioregionalist)

Peter Stephen Berg (October 1, 1937 – July 28, 2011) was an environmental writer, best known as an advocate of the concept of bioregionalism.

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Politics

Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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Proactivity

In organizational behavior and industrial/organizational psychology, proactivity or proactive behavior by individuals refers to anticipatory, change-oriented and self-initiated behavior in situations.

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Protest

A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.

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Social ecology

Social ecology is a critical social theory founded by American anarchist and libertarian socialist author Murray Bookchin.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.

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Terrain

Terrain or relief (also topographical relief) involves the vertical and horizontal dimensions of land surface.

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University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a public research university and land-grant university as well as one of the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) system.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Western Montana

Western Montana is the western region of the U.S. state of Montana.

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Wilderness

Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity.

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Redirects here:

Bioregional Democracy, Bioregional democracy, Ecoregional Democracy.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioregionalism

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