What is meant by stakeholders? How does ecosystem management involve stakeholders?

What will be an ideal response?


Stakeholders "are people who have an interest in or may be impacted by a given approach to environmental management, including government decision makers." Both individuals who have a "stake" or interest in an environmental decision and those who will be impacted by the decision must be involved in making decisions about ecosystem management because both parties will be affected, either economically, physically, or both.

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What do these teardrop-shaped hills (drumlins) record?



A) Ancient lake levels
B) Piles of sediment recording past positions of the end of the glacier
C) Erosion and sculpting of soft materials by a moving glacier
D) Melting of large blocks of rock in the ice

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Waterspouts tend to form in areas with ________ water and ________ atmospheric conditions

A) cold; unstable B) cold; stable C) warm; unstable D) warm; stable

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The slow melting of blocks of stagnant ice in the land surface is the cause of ________.

A) cirques B) kettle holes C) eskers D) roche moutonnees E) ground moraines

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An example of orographic clouds would be?

a. ?cumulus clouds produced by surface heating. b. ?rotor clouds. c. ?lee-wave clouds. d. ?clouds that form on the upwind slope of a mountain. e. ?pileus clouds.

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