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- Author
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Siegel, Jonas
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *DREDGING (Biology) , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *APPLIED ecology , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL sciences , *BIODIVERSITY - Abstract
The article presents several environmental questions formulated by the British environmental policy makers as an exercise of role-reversing. These questions, labeled as "high policy relevance," are aimed to facilitate the process of whittling down the number of questions. Among the questions formulated are centered on the time it takes for the seabed to recover from disturbance such as dredging, wind-farm construction, and oil and gas extraction; the impacts of recreational activities on biodiversity; the effects of domestic cats on vertebrate populations in rural and urban environments; the consequences for biodiversity of changes in water quality and sedimentation in rivers; and on the reason why woodland birds declined.
- Published
- 2006