Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Definitions

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The following are terms related to the environment and environmentalism that are sometimes used incorrectly. Editors are encouraged to use these terms correctly.

  • Conservation: environmental protection, especially as related to appropriate or reduced use of natural resources.
  • Conservationist: an individual who believes in or practices conservation.
  • Conservation biology: a scientific discipline that deals with human effects on species, communities, or ecosystems, or deals with their protection.
  • Conservation biologist: a scientist working in the field of conservation biology.
  • Environmentalist: an individual who believes in or practices any form of environmental protection.
  • Environmentalism: the movement concerned with protecting the natural environment from human-caused harm.
  • Environmental science: a multidisciplinary scientific discipline that draws on biology, chemistry, and geology, among other sciences, to study the relationships between human beings and the natural environment.
  • Environmental scientist: a scientist working in the field of environmental science.
  • Environmental social science: the broad, transdisciplinary study of interrelations between humans and the natural environment.
  • Ecology: scientific discipline that deals with the interrelationships of organisms and/or their abiotic environment.
  • Ecologist: a scientist working in the field of ecology.
  • Preservationist: an individual who believes in, or works to, protect functional, largely pristine, ecosystems from human impacts.

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— Note that the conservation of species or habitats as defined in the science of ecology is considered by this project as a subset of environmental topics.

A topic that is generally, but not divisively omitted from this project: