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ecosystem approach

concept
A feelgood phrase about nature is used to sell top-down control of land.
Who they are

The Convention on Biological Diversity, an international treaty, and its Ecosystem Approach.

What they do

The treaty's main tool for managing landscapes, presented as a friendly way to help nature.

How it works

The Ecosystem Approach is described as integrated landscape management, which means top-down land planning. Its public face is a feelgood title. The same approach is linked to the Landscape Approach, a high-level concept versus practical implementation, and to UN-Habitat, which reorganises land settlements through it. The Malawi Principles and UNESCO's Biosphere Reserves are also named. A cited document from the Clinton White House archive calls it 'Ecosystem Approach to Management and Biodiversity' and notes the material is frozen in time. A CBD page lists 12 complementary principles.

Why it matters

It shows how a warm-sounding label can be used to justify control over land and settlements.

The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "The key treaty of the Convention on Biological Diversity is the Ecosystem Approach which relates to integrated landscape management - ie, top-down land planning ." It is presented publicly as: "And their primary aim is to push the feelgood titled ‘ Ecosystem Approach ’." Documents named in the corpus: Convention on Biological Diversity; Ecosystem Approach; Landscape Approach; International Biological Programme; UNESCO’s Biosphere Reserves; Malawi Principles. Cross-sourced to cbd.int, clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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