The use of statisitics or other analytical methods to make predictions into the future.

When a projection is branded most likely it becomes a forecast or prediction, often obtained using deterministic models, outputs of which can enable some level of confidence to be attached to projections.

Pertains to risk management and states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is not harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking an action. The principle is used to justify discretionary decisions when the possibility of harm from making a certain decision ( taking a particular course of action) is not, or has not been, established through extensive scientific knowledge.

See “gathering”, “fishing”, “terrestrial animal harvesting”, “logging”, “non-extractive practices” and “non-lethal harvest”.

A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.

Power is the capacity of actors to mobilize agency, resources, and discourses, as well as to utilize or shape institutions to achieve a goal. Power can be both constraining and enabling, and the capacity of one actor can inhibit the capacity of another actor. Power in the context of human-nature relationships can be manifested in multiple and non-exclusive ways through discourses and social structures. Discursive power is the power to use discourses or knowledge production to shape worldviews, identities, and values.

A level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor according to governmental standards. It is also referred as poverty threshold.

A state of economic deprivation. Its manifestations include hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services. Other corollaries of poverty are social discrimination and exclusion as well as the lack of participation in decision-making.

A state of deprivation that is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is more than the lack of income and resources to ensure a sustainable livelihood. Its manifestations include hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as well as the lack of participation in decision-making.

The pressure exerted by a fluid phase in a porous medium (soil or rock) composed of a solid framework and pores filled or partially filled with water or other fluid (Reid, 2013).