An approach to natural resource management which aims to sustain ecosystems to
meet both ecological and human needs in the future.
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An approach to maintaining or restoring the composition, structure, function,
and delivery of services of natural and modified ecosystems for the goal of
achieving sustainability.
It is based on an adaptive, collaboratively developed vision of desired future
conditions that integrates ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional
perspectives, applied within a geographic framework, and defined primarily by
natural ecological boundaries.