Sentences with phrase «by ecological limits»

A sustainable society is one that has learned to live within the boundaries established by ecological limits.

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Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

The first is in terms of the standard ecological argument first proposed by the «limits to growth» thesis of the early 1970s.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

Besides affecting the species themselves, such changes could have wider effects by limiting the movement of nutrients and altering ecological interactions.

Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].

During all this time, natural ecosystems have developed in co-evolution, but 250 years ago, with the development and industrialization models imposed by the West on the world, anthropogenic action is causing a major ecological and social footprint, hence the urgency to formulate international policies that circumscribe human economic activities within the biophysical limits of Mother Earth.

Mute swans, considered «invasive» by ecological nativists, have long been blamed for the failure of trumpeter swans to recover to huntable abundance, but ---- as the pioneering field guide author and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson (1914 - 1996) repeatedly pointed out ---- the limited numbers and distribution of mute swans suggests that their actual influence on the much more widely distributed trumpeter swan population is negligible.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

The ecological limits of the planet are now in clear view, as expressed by the combination of climate change, peak oil (the end of the era of cheap energy), and overall global resource depletion and extinctions.

I'm pausing amid a hectic stretch of energy and climate news to seek your «Top Five» lists of individual comments, or contributors whose voices you personally find most attuned to the underlying premise of Dot Earth — to reveal and assess ways to limit losses, human and ecological, on the road toward more or less 9 billion people by mid-century.

(4) The decline of cheap and abundant energy will (a) limit our ability to respond to the ecological problems we face, and (b) create an economic climate where we stuggle to get by day - to - day, much less make progress in cleaning up the various messes generated during the post-WW2 era.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

Even the best pastured system analyzed has enough climate impact to justify efforts to limit future growth of beef production, which in any event would be necessary if climate and other ecological concerns were met by a transition to primarily pasture - based systems.

Trees growing near to their ecological limits either in terms of latitude or altitude show growth limitations imposed by temperature and thus ring width variations in such trees contain a relatively strong temperature signal.

More generally, with limited large - scale agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon so far, arguably the biggest deforestation threat comes from colonization by Andean migrants with little or no knowledge of sustainable tropical horticulture and who can have devastating ecological impacts.

And, with young and grassroots environmentalists more inspired by the vision of creating a new energy economy than regulating the old one, there's new hope that we will soon see the emergence of a more expansive, relevant, and powerful ecological movement, one grounded in possibilities, not limits.

Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.

By learning to live within ecological limits and restricting our economic activity to what can be reasonably achieved within the Earth's carrying capacity, proponents argue that we might actually find ourselves freed from the slavish devotion to the economic treadmill.

In ecological processes, scale is all - important and your oscillatory states must be bounded by some scalar limits for useful discussion.

With the status quo maintained, then natural forest degradation, big corporations pushing the ecological limits and threats to biodiversity will not necessarily be solved by replacing Coal / Gas with statistically safer baseload technology.

Apropos of the need to stop talking about economic growth as unconditional good, disregarding ecological limits, Yale e360 recently ran a good piece by Gus Speth that's worth reading in full.

Our mission is to help end ecological overshoot by making ecological limits central to decision - making.

The attachment system is a composite paradigm for understanding relationship processes, traditionally assessed by valid and reliable interview, projective, or self - report measures (Ravitz et al., 2010), but with a limited ecological validity in the assessment of real attachment behaviors.