bioregionalism

bioregionalism
bi·o·re·gion·al·ism (bī'ō-rēʹjə-nə-lĭz'əm) n.
The belief that social organization and environmental policies should be based on the bioregion rather than on a region determined by political or economic boundaries.
  bi'o·reʹgion·al·ist n.

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