Sentences with phrase «direct human land»

Climate change and direct human land - use pressure are likely to have synergistic impacts on desert ecosystems and species that may be offset, at least partly, by vegetation productivity and carbon sequestration gains due to rising atmospheric CO2.

Not exact matches

The act also designated 8 million acres of ANWR as wilderness and thus off - limits to human settlement, and directed that the 1002 area — the 1.5 million acres of coastal land between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea — could be surveyed for possible oil and gas resources.

And although there is no direct evidence — like cut marks on monkey bones or monkey bones found in trash heaps — of humans hunting the monkeys for food, Cooke says that in addition to hunting, the clearing of land for farming and the introduction of invasive species can all put a deadly strain on native island populations, which are adapted to a very specific environment and have nowhere else to go.

A: Mars Direct is a sustained humans - to - Mars plan developed by Dr. Robert Zubrin that advocates a minimalist, live - off - the - land approach to space exploration, allowing for maximum results with minimum investment.

Direct effects overlie existing forest conditions arising from past and future human land - use activities (Moritz and Agudo 2013).

Today, up to 83 % of the Earth's land area is under direct human influence and we entirely dominate 36 % of the bioproductive surface.

In realistic terms, any major effort to supply additional plant protein for human consumption in the U.S. would require dismantling the nation's agricultural system, since most of American agriculture is directly or indirectly involved in producing livestock either through direct grazing on grasslands or by growing feed on cultivated land.

By turning the land to the production of food crops for direct human consumption the argument goes, we would cut our intake of animal fat and cholesterol and at the same time increase the total food supply by eliminating the inefficiency inherent in animal production.

These partially offsetting effects lead to the expectation that direct human shifts in water storage on land will not have large effects on sea level in comparison to the effects of ocean warming and mountain - glacier and ice - sheet melting (Wada et al., 2012), although notable uncertainties remain in regards to future groundwater use and reservoir construction, and these effects vary considerably depending on the specific location (NRC, 2012e).

It has been suggested that a top - down allocation approach is more appropriate for boundaries where human activities exert a direct impact on the Earth (that is, climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion and chemical pollution), while a multiscale approach is more appropriate for boundaries that are spatially heterogeneous (that is biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, land - system change, biodiversity loss and aerosol loading).8 Even with a top - down approach and a single global boundary, however, allocation is fraught with difficult ethical issues.

Habitat Loss, Invasive Species, Human Activity the Main Threats The main threats birds face are similar to what any species faces, really: Land conversion to agriculture (73 % of species affected) and direct of indirect human use of biological resouHuman Activity the Main Threats The main threats birds face are similar to what any species faces, really: Land conversion to agriculture (73 % of species affected) and direct of indirect human use of biological resouhuman use of biological resources.

4.4 Anthropogenic impact studies about direct human influence like urban heat island and land use changes (eg — not about GHG emissions)

From a human rights perspective, two factors must direct any reform of the native title and land rights systems.

Developing forestlands, leasing assets on these lands, directing agricultural programs, protecting water and land rights, developing and maintaining infrastructure, providing for health and human services, and economic development are BIA responsibility, in cooperation with the American Indians and Alaska Natives.

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