GLOSSARY

To search the RWBC's glossary, click the link below:
http://regionalworkbench.org/databank/glossary_search.php

All entries in the RWBC glossary are written by invited authors. The authors include academics, scientists, researchers, activists, and select writers at large. Our approach with respect to each entry's form, content and length, is similar to the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Each entry has a series of descriptive and definitional fields (filled out by the author using an on-line form). The fields include the term itself, authorship--including author contact information, an abstract, extended essay, illustrative quote, references, and links.

Terms in the glossary include words/concepts, as well as more complicated concept clusters such as categorical labels of discourse (e.g., new regionalism, sustainability science), theory (e.g., urban theory, economic geography) and practice.(e.g., adocacy planning, knowledge networking).

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NOTE TO AUTHORS

Another "infocartographic" technology creates knowledge maps as "hyperbolic trees." Click here for an example focused on sustainable development.

The Environmental Protection Agency has created a "Terminology Reference System" (TRS). The TRS is a single resource of environmental terminology. At the site, one can on a letter from A-Z to to retrieve a list of all terms beginning with that letter. Other ways to query TRS information may be found on the Search page.

Examples of the terms that experts in our group can define include:

--Additional terms for definition-- Regional ecology Globalization Natural capital Social capital Planning theory Civil society Ecological economics Social learning Innovation Epistemology Social Justice Toxicogenomics Environmental Services Distributed Intelligence Federation Network Ecology Environmental Justice Carrying capacity Assimilative capacity Development Growth Endogenous development Epidemiology Human capital Cultural capital Basic needs Sustainable development Biogeochemical cycle Political ecology Coevolution Sustainability Social ecology Land ethic Stewardship Appropriate technology Biotechnology Environmental externalities Common property resources Tragedy of the commons Global commons Ecological footprint Maquiladoras Untraded interdependencies City-region Ecosystem management Basin plan Regional Comprehensive Plan Environmental risk assessment Environmental impact assessment ISO 14000 Life cycle assessment EMS Industrial Ecology CERES Principles Agenda 21 Biodiversity Climate change Coastal zone Integrated coastal management Ozone layer depletion Asian Brown Cloud Global warming Non-point source pollution

Rather than take an encyclopedic approach to this task where all terms are relevant, we will target our selection of terms to fit project "ontologies" (click here for background on the meaning of "ontology" in this context).