Natural resource management refers to the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a…
Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features…
Deep ecology is an ecological and environmental philosophy promoting the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility…
Sustainable consumption is part of a sustainable way of life and consumer behavior: Buying environmentally and socially compatible manufactured products…
Overconsumption is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem. A prolonged pattern of overconsumption…
The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an…
Agroecology is the study of ecological processes applied to agricultural production systems. Bringing ecological principles to bear in agroecosystems can…
Sustainable design (also called environmentally sustainable design, environmentally conscious design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built…
Environmental politics designate both the politics about the environment (see also environmental policy) and an academic field of study focused…
Environmental assessment (EA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or actual…
Renewable energy commercialization involves the deployment of three generations of renewable energy technologies dating back more than 100 years. First-generation…
Environmental economics is a sub-field of economics that is concerned with environmental issues. It has become a widely studied topic…
Ecological economics (also called eco-economics, ecolonomy or bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen) is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic…
Ecological engineering uses ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems that integrate "human society with…
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of…