What is a bioregion? • Bioregional Learning Centre

Bioregioning offers an alternative organising principle that could redefine the way we understand material flows, political governance and civil society. Simply defined, it is a form of activity that operates within the natural boundaries of a bioregion – often defined by a watershed or geological area – and that seeks to sustain, or indeed revive,... See more

It was in this context that thinkers like Peter Berg, Raymond Dasmann and Kirkpatrick Sale imagined different ways to inhabit the earth. Their offering was the bioregion: regions defined by natural borders rather than political boundaries. These could be defined by any natural characteristic delineating one place from another. The Planet Drum Found... See more

“A bioregion can be determined initially by use of climatology, physiography, animal and plant geography, natural history and other descriptive natural sciences. The final boundaries of a bioregion, however, are best described by the people who have lived within it, through human recognition of the realities of living-in-place.”

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