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English translation: umbrella concept
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| 07:49 Jun 27, 2013 |
| Dutch to English translations [PRO] Science - Environment & Ecology | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Kitty Brussaard Netherlands Local time: 19:31 | ||||||
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| 4 | catch-all term |
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| 3 | umbrella concept |
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umbrella concept Explanation: Inderdaad al eerder ingebracht als KudoZ-vraag (zie Freeks bijdrage). Je zou ook kunnen kiezen voor "umbrella concept" in deze context. Of eventueel zelfs "overarching concept". E.e.a. is ook afhankelijk van de specifieke invalshoek die in jouw tekst gekozen wordt. De term "catchall" (UK "catch-all") heeft vaak een wat negatieve lading (d.w.z. wordt vaak gebruikt om te verwijzen naar vage (verzamel)termen). Zie ook onderstaande voorbeeld. The concept of "sustainability" has taken a good bit of criticism in recent years. It has been charged with being so vague and over-used that it lacks significance, and with having been co-opted by the polluter-industrial system. These concerns have some merit. Nevertheless, "sustainability" remains a valuable umbrella framework for environmental issues, because the fundamental cause of our environmental challenges is that our capacity to deplete resources, despoil places, and disrupt ecological systems far outstrips their regenerative and restorative capacities. (...) The strengths of "sustainability" as an umbrella concept for environmental responsibility are that it responds to the cause of environmental problems in general and that it can be attached to almost any type of system or activity. Because of this, it must always be substantively specified and operationalized in particular applications and contexts: What (in this particular context) needs to be sustained? At what level and in what ways? How is it to be measured and monitored? (...) The "sustainable" in sustainable agriculture will differ from that in sustainable architecture, and it will be different in the United States than it is in the Netherlands or in Malawi. This does not imply that there is anything wrong with the concept. It shows, rather, that a commitment to sustainability as such marks the beginning of the difficult work that needs to be done to flesh out what that it amounts to in practice. That is how things are with overarching framework concepts, be it "sustainability," "justice," or "rights." http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000210 |
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catch-all term Explanation: This is to cover the other possible meaning, as discussed in the Discussion area, which I suspect might be more apposite here. |
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