Sentences with phrase «economic waste land»

It will become a economic waste land since the only thing they export besides oil is terror.

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By linking worldwide data on solid waste, population density, and economic status, we estimated the mass of land - based plastic waste entering the ocean.

Researchers from Binghamton University, Cornell University, the International City / County Management Association (ICMA), and two divisions of the American Planning Association measured local government action on energy, water, waste, land use and transportation, as well as social equity and economic development across 1,900 local governments.

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.

In 14 chapters experts provide a «state of the art» of the knowledge and experience gained since the mid nineties of the past century in different types of urban agriculture (horticulture, forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculture.

But the FAO says the waste not only causes huge economic losses but is also doing very significant damage to natural resources — climate, water, land and biodiversity.

The tide is turning Rob Ellison — sorry if your pecuniary interests in maintaining the status quo somehow suffer, but at least a few billion others will benefit from less economic waste and misuse of agricultural land and products.

Victor shows that if we introduce new policies into the model, like new measures of economic progress; a carbon price; more generous social policies; limits on material, energy, waste and land use; a shorter working week; etc., then you can actually reduce poverty and unemployment in a zero - growth scenario.