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bioregionalism

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bi·o·re·gion·al·ism  (b-rj-n-lzm)
n.
The belief that social organization and environmental policies should be based on the bioregion rather than on a region determined by political or economic boundaries.

bio·region·al·ist n.


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The appeal of bioregionalism helps explain why trade and free markets are anathema to neo-Luddites: Trade, after all, brings far-flung goods and people together, across "natural" boundaries.
Old ideas about bioregionalism are gaining new meaning as ecosystem management insists on crossing artificial boundaries and encompassing broad, natural regions.
In presentations on the use of mapping to engender social change organized around the Copper-Hewitt exhibit, Wilson has been advocatin, bioregionalism as a tool that will serve everyone as a common frame of reference.
 
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