0 an interest in or the study of the environment, in order to protect it from damage by human activities --
1 the study of the environment and the belief that it must be protected from damage by human activities: --
All too often, however, it is used to emphasize a linear environmentalism at the expense of the more complex interplay between dynamic systems.
These risks cannot be managed through negative environmentalism as epitomized by environmental impact requirements.
The emergence in the late twentieth century of modern environmentalism and the ' social justice ' wing of the ecological movement is covered in the final chapter.
While positive environmentalism includes conservation projects, the non-market benefits of such projects are difficult to evaluate.
Positive environmentalism requires assessing the nature and causes of environmental degradation and designing appropriate policy reforms and conservation projects.
This example shows that environmentalism did not necessarily go beyond the hereditary approach: indeed, it could pursue the same logic in a territorial context.
Mitigating the harmful effects of development projects and industries (negative environmentalism) is inadequate, especially in resource-dependent economies whose resources are at risk from other forces.
And no amount of concern for long-term resilience of the human ecosystem can by itself ensure a fair environmentalism or a just development.
