Sentences with phrase «ecological limits»

Second, this means that environmental dogma which argues that we live within ecological limits may actually make us more vulnerable to changes in the natural world.
A sustainable society is one that has learned to live within the boundaries established by ecological limits.
Their goal is to align capital markets with natural ecological limits to growth.
Their work can be seen as the latest installment of an old debate between people who perceive hard ecological limits to human population and economic growth, as these authors do, and people who think innovation will ultimately save the day, as it has done so often in the past.
Very high sequestration potentials for these strategies have been reported, but there has been no systematic analysis of the potential ecological limits to and environmental impacts of implementation at the scale relevant to climate change mitigation.
The mountain Mayas continued to flourish, however, and it is possible that the high precipitation of this warming period introduced critical ecological limits to continued occupation of the (now) swampy coastal jungles.
Mora also underscored our joint efforts, saying, «[the MOU with Global Footprint Network] isn't simply to carry out scientific studies on Nariño's Ecological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainable.»
Since 2015, ecological limits meant to protect towns like Horní Jiřetín have been under attack.
However, I think the point is that the notion of ecological limits serves the predominant mode of politics.
Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team's effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about action.
Human ingenuity has allowed the species to transcend every supposed ecological limit in the past, but will it be enough to surmount the challenges of a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene?
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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.
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.
Last week officials announced that the proposed Rio +20 framing document endorses the notion that there are hard ecological limits — «planetary boundaries» — to human development.
We live in a world where social morality must recognize that planetary society is approaching the ecological limits of the earth.
We are realizing that there are ecological limits to growth.
In short, the formation of the planetary society, the approaching of the earth's ecological limits, and the attainment of certain built - in or intrinsic boundaries all are coming at a time when the scientific and technological capabilities of men are enlarging the range of alternative futures.
The hyper - charged economic growth and concomitant liquidation or reduction of the institutions that held together British society had, according to Gray, pushed Britain to insuperable social and ecological limits.
The panel's report concludes that «sustainability» should guide forest management, so that economic uses and recreation are all conducted within the forest's ecological limits.
The latest technique for making these predictions is so - called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species» range.
The lack of evidence for beeswax use at Neolithic sites above the 57th parallel North as in Scotland and Fennoscandia points to an ecological limit to the natural occurrence of honeybees at that time.
There are three areas in which our food systems are failing us, De Schutter said: ecological limits, social -LSB-...]
The functional integrity and resilience of the ecological processes, ecosystems, and biological diversity that is the basis of all life on earth, respecting which entails a realization of the ecological limits within which human economies and societies must restrict themselves.7
Beyond that, they were reaching the ecological limit of their company's habitat.
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.
Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business and Industry for WWF - UK, says, «It's important to celebrate innovations that drive us towards a One Planet Future - a future in which the production and consumption of goods and services flourish within the Earth's ecological limits and support human well - being around the world.»
The «social and ecological limits to growth» are not manifesting in reality.
The first action involved activists linking arms along the ecological limits, and demanding that the limits be respected.
Our unregulated capitalist system of infinite economic growth on a finite planet is driving the increase of fossil fuel emissions beyond the planet's ecological limits.
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.
Global Footprint Network is 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.
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.
The financial crisis for which we must now pay so heavily prefigures the real collapse, when humanity bumps against its ecological limits.
While the second half of the Wegman paragraph is not matched within Bradley, the Wegman sentences commencing «Trees growing in semiarid regions...» and «Trees growing near to their ecological limits...» are slightly paraphrased versions of the corresponding Bradley sentences, as is the sentence about «biological processes».
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