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Art conservation and restoration |
Conservation and restoration (also referred to as conservation-restoration or simply conservation) is a profession devoted to the preservation of cultural heritage for the future. Conservation activities include examination, documentation, treatment...
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| Conservation law |
In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves.
One particularly important physical result concerning conservation laws is Noether's Theorem, which...
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The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal, fungus and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
The early...
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| Conservation easement |
In the United States, a conservation easement (also called a conservation covenant or conservation restriction) is an encumbrance—sometimes including a transfer of usage rights (easement)—which creates a legally enforceable land preservation...
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| Conservation of energy |
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The nineteenth century law of conservation of energy is a law of physics. It states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant over time. The total energy is said to be conserved over time. For an isolated system, this...
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Conservation ethic |
Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy...
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| Conservation designation |
A conservation designation is a name and/or acronym which explains the status of an area of land in terms of conservation or protection.
For a comprehensive list, see Conservation in the United Kingdom
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| Conservation of mass | Law of conservation of matter |
The law of conservation of mass, also known as the principle of mass/matter conservation, states that the mass of an isolated system (closed to all matter and energy) will remain constant over time. This principle is equivalent to the conservation...
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| Conservation area | Conservation zone |
A conservation areas is a tract of land that has been awarded protected status in order to ensure that natural features, cultural heritage or biota are safeguarded. A conservation area may be a nature reserve, a park, a land reclamation project, or...
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| Conservation Agriculture | Conservation agriculture |
Conservation agriculture [CA] can be defined by a statement given by the (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) as “a concept for resource-saving agricultural crop production that strives to achieve acceptable profits together...
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| Conservation biology |
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Conservation biology is the scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an...
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| Conservation district |
Conservation districts are government entities that provide technical assistance and tools to manage and protect land and water resources in U.S. states and insular areas. There are more than 3,000 in the United States. Depending on the state, they...
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| Conservation Volunteers Australia |
Conservation Volunteers Australia is an Australian not-for-profit conservation organisation that attracts and coordinates volunteers for environmental restoration projects.
The organisation was founded in Ballarat, Victoria in 1982 as the Australian...
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| Conservation headland |
A Conservation Headland is a strip along the edge of an agricultural field, where pesticides is sprayed only in a selective manner. This increases the number and type of weed and insect species present, and benefits the bird species that depend on...
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| Conservation Centre Liverpool |
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The National Conservation Centre in Liverpool, England is the conservation department of National Museums Liverpool. It is based in The Midland Railway Goods Offices.
The centre was created as a result of a report by the former National Museums and...
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| Conservation medicine |
Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environmental conditions. Also known as ecological medicine, environmental medicine, or medical geology.
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| Conservation genetics |
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Conservation genetics is an interdisciplinary science that aims to apply genetic methods to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity. Researchers involved in conservation genetics come from a variety of fields including population genetics,...
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| Conservation |
Conservation refers to a logical thinking ability which, according to the psychologist Jean Piaget becomes evident in children aged 7-12 during the concrete operations stage of their development. It is part of Piaget's theory of cognitive...
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| Conservation and neocolonialism | Conservation and Neocolonialism |
Conservation and Neocolonialism refers to the conservation movement as taken up today by international organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, which has inadvertently set up a neocolonialist relationship with underdeveloped nations in...
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| Conservation status |
The NatureServe conservation status system, maintained and presented by NatureServe in cooperation with the Natural Heritage Network, was developed in the United States in the 1980s by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as a means for ranking or...
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| Conservation status |
The conservation status of a group of organisms (for instance, a species) indicates whether the group is still extant (that is, members of it are still alive) and how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future. Many factors are taken...
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| Conservation authority |
A conservation authority is a local, community-based environmental agency based in Ontario, Canada. Conservation authorities represent groupings of municipalities on a watershed basis and work in partnership with other agencies to manage their...
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| Conservation Authorities Act |
The Conservation Authorities Act was created by the Ontario Provincial Legislature in 1946 to ensure the conservation, restoration and responsible management of water, land and natural habitat through programs that balance human, environmental and...
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| Conservationist physics |
Conservationist physics is a branch of physics founded in 1976 by James Blair (uncle of film-actress Linda Blair). It is not to be confused with the Law of Conservation of Energy and other similar conservation laws. Its main goals are to try to...
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| Conservation Halton |
Conservation Halton, also known as the Halton Region Conservation Authority, is a conservation authority established under the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario. It forms a partnership with the Province of Ontario, the Ministry of Natural...
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| Conservation Law Foundation |
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is an environmental advocacy organization based in New England. Since 1966, CLF's mission has been to advocate on behalf of the region's environment and its communities. CLF's advocacy work takes place in four...
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| Conservation management system |
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A conservation management system is a procedure for maintaining a species or habitat in a particular state. It is a means whereby humankind secures wildlife in a favourable condition for contemplation, education or research, in perpetuity. It is an...
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| Conservation International |
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Conservation International (CI) is a nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The organization's mission is to protect nature, and its biodiversity, for the benefit of humanity.
CI is one of the largest conservation...
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| Conservation Value |
Conservation Value is a United States-based, non-profit organization whose mission is to "promote the benefits of sustainability by helping consumers, companies and government agencies find opportunities to simultaneously benefit the environment,...
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| Conservation Commons |
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The Conservation Commons is the expression of a cooperative effort of non-governmental organizations, international and multi-lateral organizations, governments, academia, and the private sector, to improve open access to and unrestricted use of,...
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| Conservation Reserve Program |
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is an Agenda 21, cost-share and rental payment program under the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and is administered by the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA). Technical assistance for CRP is...
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| Conservation Dependent |
Conservation Dependent (LR/cd) was an IUCN category assigned to species or lower taxa which were dependent on conservation efforts to prevent the taxon becoming threatened with extinction. Such taxa must be the focus of a continuing taxon-specific...
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| Conservation development |
Conservation development, also known as conservation design, is a controlled-growth land use development that adopts the principle for allowing limited sustainable development while protecting the area's natural environmental features in perpetuity,...
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| Conservation in Papua New Guinea |
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Biodiversity protection efforts in Papua New Guinea |
Papua New Guinea together with the West Papua region of Indonesia (New Guinea) make up a major tropical wilderness area that still contains 5% of the original and untouched tropical high-biodiversity terrestrial ecosystems. PNG in itself contains...
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| Conservation Ontario |
Conservation Ontario is the umbrella organization which represents all of the conservation authorities in Ontario. This nonprofit organization was founded in 1980/81. Conservation Ontario is the network of 36 Conservation Authorities.
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| Conservation form |
Conservation form refers to an arrangement of an equation or system of equations, usually representing a physical system, that show that a property represented is conserved by making overall change equal to zero.
An example of a set of equations...
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| Conservation reserves and community reserves of India |
Conservation reserves and community reserves in India are terms denoting protected areas of India which typically act as buffer zones to or connectors and migration corridors between established national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserved and...
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| Conservation sciences |
Conservation science or archaeological object conservation is the process by which an archaeological conservator increases the longevity of archaeological artifacts for future study. They do this by stabilizing, cleaning, and/or micro-excavating the...
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| Conservation Council of Western Australia |
The Conservation Council of Western Australia is the umbrella body for conservation groups and organisations in Western Australia. It has been the co-ordinator, publisher and guiding body for issues of woodchipping in the South West of Western...
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| Conservation Management of Kaziranga National Park |
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Kaziranga National Park has a good conservation history, especially due to its efficient management policies. In spite of the efficient conservation policies there are some loopholes in the conservation policies.
Kaziranga started in 1908 as a...
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| Conservation Biology volume 19 issue 3 |
Conservation Biology is a peer-reviewed academic journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Conservation Biology publishes articles covering the science and practice of conserving Earth's biological diversity....
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| Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts |
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded by Marilyn Kemp Weidner in 1977, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in response to the growing problem of...
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| Conservation Act |
The Conservation Act 1987 is New Zealand's principal act concerning the conservation of indigenous biodiversity. The Act established the Department of Conservation and Fish and Game, and complements the National Parks Act 1980 and the Reserves Act...
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| Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico |
The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, the brainchild of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, is a private, non-profit, Congressionally created, entity that owns and manages many of the most environmentally...
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| Conservation Effects Assessment Project |
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The Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) was established in 2002 to quantify the environmental impact of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) conservation program. The project focuses on how watersheds are affected. CEAP...
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| Conservation of Seals Act 1970 |
The Conservation of Seals Act 1970 (c. 30) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It received Royal Assent on 29 May 1970.
In 2007 there has been a call for better seal protection by Animal Concern and the Marine Conservation Society....
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| Conservation foundation uk |
The Conservation Foundation, a registered charity in the UK, was founded by Prof David Bellamy and David Shreeve. The Foundation was launched at the Institute of Directors on 5 March 1982 at an event covered by BBC TV’s Pebble Mill at One. The event...
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| Conservation grazing |
Conservation grazing is the use of semi-feral or domesticated grazing livestock to maintain and increase the biodiversity of natural or semi-natural grasslands, heathlands, wood pasture, wetlands and many other habitats.
Also called targeted grazing...
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| Conservation Geoportal |
The Conservation Geoportal was an online geoportal, intended to provide a comprehensive listing of geographic information systems (GIS) datasets and web map service relevant to biodiversity conservation. It is currently defunct. The site, its...
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| Conservation Security Program | Conservation security program |
The Conservation Security Program (CSP) is a voluntary conservation program in the United States that supports ongoing stewardship of private agricultural lands by providing payments and technical assistance for maintaining and enhancing natural...
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| Conservation psychology | Conservation Psychology |
Conservation psychology is the scientific study of the reciprocal relationships between humans and the rest of nature, with a particular focus on how to encourage conservation of the natural world. Rather than a specialty area within psychology...
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| Conservation |
Commonly known as "the first law of thermodynamics," the law of conservation requires that energy can be transformed but never lost.
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| Conservation finance | Conservation Finance |
Conservation Finance is the practice of raising money and managing it in order to pay for conservation projects.
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| Conservation science |
Conservation science is the interdisciplinary study of cultural heritage conservation through the use of scientific inquiry and analytical equipment. General areas of research include the technology and structure of artistic and historic works and...
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| Conservation and restoration training |
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Art conservation training |
This is a listing of training schools for the field of art conservation.
There are a variety of training and entry routes into the profession of conservation; for many the first step is a full-time academic course. Whereas training in Conservation...
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| Conservation Associations and Professional Organizations |
The following is a list of conservation organizations associated with the professional field of art conservation.
Professional conservators join and take part in the activities of numerous conservation associations and professional organizations...
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