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Environmental stewardship refers to the responsible use and protection of the natural environment through active participation in conservation efforts and sustainable practices by actors ranging from individuals, small groups, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and other collective networks. Aldo Leopold (1887–1949) championed environmental stewardship ARCFCAA in a land ethic, with exploring the ethical implications of "dealing with man's relationship to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it."

Resilience-based ecosystem stewardship places emphasis on resilience as an integral feature of responding and interacting with the environment in a constantly changing world. Resilience refers to the ability of a system to absorb disturbance and still maintain its basic function and structure, such as in the case of ecosystems which do not serve as singular resources, but rather are function-dependent in providing an array of ecosystem services. Additionally, this type of stewardship recognizes resource managers and management systems as influential and informed participants to the natural systems that are serviced by humans.

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What does environmental stewardship look like? Many programs, partnerships, and funding have been allocated toward efforts to implement environmental stewardship into the workings of society. One example of this can be seen through PESP, a partnership program overseen by the US Environmental Protection Agency, with the purpose of pesticide-user consultation to raise awareness of hazardous chemicals, reduce their use and identify their impact on social and environmental health.

Starting in 2006 in England, environmental stewardship was placed at the center of an agricultural incentivizing mechanism, used to encourage cattle farmers to better manage their land, crops, animals and utilized materials. The Environmental Stewardship Award has been created in accordance with this initiative to highlight members that exemplify actions in alignment with environmental stewardship.

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The foundational and characteristic values of environmental stewardship have been subjected to socio-environmental studies in order to identify benefits of its evaluation, modeling, and integration in policy, systems management, and urban planning amongst other areas of implementation. For instance, one such study examined the broad literature of environmental stewardship and aimed to dissect how a construction of the social social make-up of environmental stewardship could potentially be utilized in reconfiguring local efforts to conserve the quality of the natural environment. Another example of the close social ties to environmental stewardship is displayed by NRPA's efforts to place environmental stewardship at the forefront of importance for childhood development and youths' consciousness of the outdoors. Similarly, the practice of environmental stewardship has been mentioned in discussion of mental health treatments and natural therapy.