environmental stewardship
Protecting natural resources
Environmental stewardship is the responsible care and management of natural resources and ecosystems.
The term implies an ethical obligation to preserve the environment for future generations rather than exploit it for short-term gain.
Stewardship suggests humans are caretakers rather than owners of the natural world: The company's environmental stewardship includes restoring wetlands on its property.
The concept appears in corporate sustainability reports, conservation policy, and religious frameworks that emphasize humanity's duty to protect creation.
- land ethicMoral duty toward ecosystems
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- native speciesOrganisms originating in a region
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
future generations · reforestation · tree planting · custodianship · habitat restoration · nature preserve · circular economy · leave no trace · give back · environmental legislation · carbon sequestration · clean water · ecology · green spaces · protected areas · ecosystem · wildlife protection · sustainable agriculture
- conservationconservation, wildlife, endangered, habitat, sanctuary
- Indigenous Knowledgetraditional knowledge, ancestral wisdom, indigenous medicine, traditional medicine, native medicine
- stewardshipresource management, conservation, estate management, trusteeship, custodianship
- ecoethicsbiocentrism, intrinsic value, reverence for life, environmental justice, climate justice
- green faithsacred earth, dominion, tending
- outdoor recreationhiking, camping, fishing, swimming, skiing
environmental stewardshipresource exploitation
Using available materials up
ecocide · strip mining · clear-cutting · overfishing · habitat destruction
environmental stewardshipanti-environmentalism
Opposition to ecological protection
willful ignorance · climate denial · throwaway culture · short-termism · planned obsolescence