Conservation
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- Art conservation Conservation-restoration, also referred to as conservation, is a profession devoted to the preservation of cultural heritage for the future. Conservation activities include examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care. All of this work is supported by research and education, protecting works of art of life
- Conservation biology Conservation biology is the scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction. It is an interdisciplinary subject drawing on sciences, economics, and the practice of natural resource management. The term conservation biology was, the science of the protection and management of biodiversity
- Conserved name (Latin nomen conservandum), a scientific name with specific nomenclatural protection.
- Conservation genetics Conservation genetics is an interdisciplinary science that aims to apply genetic methods to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity. Researchers involved in conservation genetics come from a variety of fields including population genetics, molecular ecology, biology, evolutionary biology, and systematics. Genetic diversity is one of the - "an interdisciplinary science that aims to apply genetic methods to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity."
- Conserved sequence - "similar or identical sequences that may occur within nucleic acid sequences, protein sequences, protein structures or polymeric carbohydrates."
- Conservation laws In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves, a set of laws in physics
- Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
- Conservation movement The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future, to protect plants, animals and their habitats
- Conservation (ethic) Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its forests, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to protect the natural world. Those who follow the, an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection, especially of the natural Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic environment
- Conservationist Conservationists are defined by what they conserve. Conservationists advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment. Conservation is a part of the wider environmental movement, a person who advocates for conservation of plants, animals and their habitats
- Energy conservation Energy conservation refers to efforts made to reduce energy consumption in order to preserve resources for the future and reduce environmental pollution. It can be achieved through efficient energy use , or by reduced consumption of energy services. Energy conservation may result in increase of financial capital, environmental value, national, the reduction of non-renewable energy consumption
- Habitat conservation Habitat conservation is a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore, habitat areas for wild plants and animals, especially conservation reliant species, and prevent their extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range. It is a priority of many groups that cannot be easily characterized in terms of any one ideology, a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore, habitat areas for wild plants and animals
- Water conservation Water conservation refers to reducing the usage of water and recycling of waste water for different purposes such as cleaning, manufacturing, and agricultural irrigation, reducing the use of water to protect the environment
- Wildlife management Wildlife management is a general term for the process of keeping wild species at desirable levels which are determined by the wildlife managers. Wildlife management can include game keeping, wildlife conservation and pest control. Wildlife management has become an integrated science using disciplines such as mathematics, chemistry, biology,, multidisciplinary practices, including conservation of species and their habitats
- Conservation authority (Canada)
- Marine conservation Marine conservation, also known as marine resources conservation, is the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas. Marine conservation focuses on limiting human-caused damage to marine ecosystems, and on restoring damaged marine ecosystems. Marine conservation also focuses on preserving vulnerable marine species, the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas
- Soil conservation Soil conservation is a set of management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered by overuse, acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination. The principle approaches these strategies take are:, management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered
- Conservation-restoration Conservation-restoration, also referred to as conservation, is a profession devoted to the preservation of cultural heritage for the future. Conservation activities include examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care. All of this work is supported by research and education, the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural property
- Photograph conservation
- Architectural conservation
See also
- Category:Conservation This category is for articles relating to conservation, conservation biology and the conservation movement for topics related to conservation of natural resources
- Conservation easement In the United States, a conservation easement is an encumbrance — sometimes including a transfer of usage rights (easement) — which creates a legally enforceable land preservation agreement between a landowner and a government agency (municipality, county, state, federal) or a qualified land protection organization (often called a "land
- Conservation communities
- Environmentalism Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the state of the environment. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the color green
- Historic preservation Historic preservation or heritage conservation is a professional endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historic significance. Other names for the discipline include urban conservation, landscape preservation, built environment conservation, built heritage conservation, object
- List of conservation topics This is a list of conservation topics. It is a list of articles relating to conservation biology and conservation of the natural environment
- Sustainability Sustainability is the capacity to endure. In ecology the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. For humans it is the potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which in turn depends on the well being of the natural world and the responsible use of natural resources
- Land ethic The land ethic is a perspective on environmental ethics first championed by Aldo Leopold in his book A Sand County Almanac (1949). In it he wrote that there was a need for a "new ethic", an "ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it", a perspective on environmental ethics first proposed by Aldo Leopold
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