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use of land and resources in ways that minimise stress on ecosystems.
Accordingly, the main principle for this level of decision-making is that
alternatives for implementing policy which are assessed to pose least
threat to the properties that maintain systemic resilience should be
pursued. As with the principles of minimising reliance on options that
potentially present a threat to ecological functionality, activities should
not be endorsed where they are judged to be incompatible with the
objective of reducing human erosion of the resilience of ecosystems.
Iexaminein
Chapters 4
,
5
and
6
how a system of governance could be
established to advance these principles for policy implementation and, in
doing so, to explore how far reductions in stress envisaged in ecologically
oriented policies can be realised.
