Phraseology and Culture in English

CLIMATE
+ N 
climate change 
climate evaluation 
climate crash 
climate patterns 
climate decay 
climate shock 
{adj. or N} 
+ POLICY 
best policy 
dam building policy 
environmentally-sound policy 
national policy 
free trade policy 
wastewater management policy 
management policy 
2.4.1. Resource
Groups of collocations are also built around concepts which are central to 
environmental discourse, such as ‘awareness’ (to be ‘ecologically aware’, 
‘socially aware’, ‘environmentally aware’ and ‘politically aware’) and ‘bal-
ance’ (as in ‘ecological balance’ or the ‘balance of nature’. Another group 
includes resource.

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RESOURCE
+ N 
resource base 
resource mobilization 
resource use 
resource development 
resource survey 
resource values 
{N adj.} 
+ RESOURCE 
diminishing resource 
nonrenewable resource significant 
resource 
land resource 
pooled resource 
technological resource 
mineral resource 
prodigious resource 
valuable resource 
natural resource 
renewable resource 
water resource 
Collocations tend to be formed specifically within discourses and texts 
for those topics under consideration. The language contained in texts of this 
nature, which refer continually to such topics with a range of collocations, 
can be dense and difficult to comprehend. Collocation thus functions in a 
similar manner to jargons such as that formed by the process of compounding. 
2.4.2. Feral
Certain words signal “environmental topic” in collocations. It is an interest-
ing exercise to ask people what kinds of things can be described as “feral”. 
Although in the Australian context, the current use of feral came out of 
environmental language to distinguish “native” species from those that have 
become out-of-control after their introduction to Australia, like many envi-
ronmental multiword components, its use has been extended beyond the 
borders of this discourse. 
Exotic fauna such as pigs, horses, buffalo, foxes and rabbits are readily 
described as being “feral”. With flora, the distinctions may be even finer, as