Sentences with phrase «ecological deficits»

The Economic Costs of Ecological Deficits Introduction Deserts Invading China (pdf) Introduction Advancing Deserts Gaining Momentum From Ecological Deficits to Dust Bowl Spreading Deserts: The Response The National Costs of Failure The Worldwide Effect of Failure

The second section looks at the negative effect of ecological deficits on the food prospect and how to eliminate both soil and water deficits.

For most ecological deficits, we do not have a global estimate of their size.

The method currently shows that about 84 % of the world population live in countries that run growing ecological deficits, i.e., they are living on overuse of their own ecosystems, on imported biocapacity or on appropriations from the global commons [4], [9].

If we could apply this «fix», it would certainly increase our estimates of ecological deficits.

Our governments and state planners in the overconsumptive nations financing huge domestic ecological deficits have always aimed at devising methods to maintain this disparity (read George Kennan's 1948 speech; nothing has changed).

«Most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity,» Rees and Wackernagel wrote.

Already today, 150 major nations of the world show an ecological deficit.

Rwanda, the Sudan, and the Middle East demonstrate how violent conflicts emerge indirectly from an ecological deficit.

June 22 marks Germany's Ecological Deficit Day.

Germany appears to be closing its ecological deficit, primarily by reducing its per capita carbon Footprint and increasing crop biocapacity at the same time.

When a nation like Greece is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like The Netherlands are in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Italy has the third - highest Ecological Footprint per capita of Mediterranean countries, trailing France and Slovenia, and fourth - highest ecological deficit per capita of the EU 27 countries (trailing Belgium, Netherlands, and Cyprus).

April 13 marks the ecological deficit day of Switzerland.

When a nation like the U.K. is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

June 14 marks Portugal's Ecological Deficit Day.

April 30 marks the ecological deficit day of the United Kingdom.

May 14 marks China's Ecological Deficit Day.

April 1st marks the ecological deficit day of The Netherlands.

When a nation like Switzerland is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like China is in ecological deficit, it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like Italy is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like India is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

April 5 marks the ecological deficit day of Italy.

The increasing ecological deficit is primarily a result of an increased Ecological Footprint, the majority of which comes from the carbon Footprint.

COLE BAY — A lack of local food production, unrestricted and uninspected development, insufficient use of renewable energy, solid waste issues, no terrestrial conservation areas, and ineffective public transport have resulted in St. Maarten running at an ecological deficit,» says environmental agency St....

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).

If this is the case, India is likely to face a widening ecological deficit even if current per - capita levels of resource consumption remain the same.

Clearly, India's current ecological deficit poses a clear challenge to its leaders» ability to improve the quality of life for vast segments of the population now living in poverty.

Our interactive map shows which countries are running an ecological deficit (red) or have an ecological reserve (green).

When the global EF is decomposed into its six components (Figure 1), none of the five non-carbon land - use categories has any substantial ecological deficit — suggesting that depletion of cropland, grazing land, forest land, fishing grounds, and built - up land is not occurring on an aggregate, global level.

And in the US, we've already hit Ecological Deficit Day on July 14th of this year, a full month before this global milestone was reached.

It's time to wake up and smell the ecological deficit and start living within our planetary means.

Find out more about how much land area it takes to support your personal lifestyle with the GFN Footprint Calculator, and read about the causes and conditions that are behind our current ecological deficit at Earth Overshoot Day, as well as learn what you can do to make a difference, both locally and globally.

Not exact matches

Precisely with regard to these transitional situations which, in view of the present deficits in ecological and social - technological theory, particularly become the center of cultural attention, Whitehead has set new tasks.

According to the authors, «there is now a forest «fire deficit» in the western United States attributable to the combined effects of human activities, ecological, and climate changes.

Hence, an ecological «deficit» — where domestic demand exceeds domestic supply — reflects patterns of trade that in themselves can be both positive and negative from an environmental viewpoint [20].

See «Ecological Footprints and Bio-Capacity: Essential Elements in Sustainability Assessment» by William E. Rees: «humanity had already «overshot» the long - term human carrying capacity of the Earth by about 20 % in 1999 — the whole planet is in deficit.

Kids are spending less time outdoors than prison inmates, and it's leading to a whole host of problems like obesity, nature deficit disorder and lower levels of what could be called «ecological literacy».