Sentences with phrase «environmental constraints»

It seems likely that environmental constraints on economic growth will dominate world politics for the foreseeable future.

Our national accounting practices and corporate reporting rules were developed at a time when the economic and social importance of environmental constraints was less well recognised than it is today.

However, the tropical countries argued that their pledge gives countries that do not accept environmental constraints an unfair trade advantage.

With escalating environmental constraints, this may cost increasingly more energy and investment in order to balance the rising ecosystem pressures.

He developed the National Coal Inventory to determine the availability and environmental constraints associated with Canada's coal resources.

We look at environmental constraints where juniors are looking for minerals.

The administration wants to remove environmental constraints and the protection of such areas as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Before she ran the Las Vegas Valley's water supply, the city's environmental constraints seemed insurmountable.

Western Lake Erie has been the focus of the «invasion» and provided an example of what on organism unchecked by environmental constraints can do.

Criteria based on issues such as environmental constraints, seismic risk and population demographics are being mapped out using geographic information systems (GIS) to inform the development of discretionary and exclusionary criteria for assessing potential sites for new installations.

Values (such as physical health, social status, emotional well - being, or financial wealth Environmental constraints and sigmoid utility: implications for value, risk sensitivity, and social status

We look at environmental constraints when considering mining penny stocks in particular.

The book is as rich, nuanced and multi-dimensional as the complex challenges Americans face whenever weighing energy needs against environmental constraints.

However, recent regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act threaten to upend the competitive markets that guarantee just and reasonable wholesale rates in many parts of the U.S. Those organized wholesale markets are based on using the least - cost generation to satisfy demand, whereas the EPA continues to impose tighter and more complex environmental constraints on the electricity generation sector.

Arguing that the planet will face environmental constraints well before fossil fuel resources are exhausted, scientists including Jim Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, and Ken Caldeira urged leaders to take bold action to leave coal in the ground and promote the development of low - carbon energy sources including wind, solar, and geothermal.

They say that now that the «well - heeled national environmental groups out of the picture» by agreeing to the deal, TXU will have an easier time minimizing costly environmental constraints.

«Many of these alternatives, such as nuclear power and geoengineering, are likely to convey cultural resonances that affirm rather than threaten hierarchical and individualist confidence in the power of human ingenuity to overcome environmental constraints on economic production.»

But there are geologic and environmental constraints on where pumped hydro can be deployed.»

The Health Partner uses a thoughtful and strategic combination of health education, health coaching, and behavioral analysis to help patients overcome barriers such as knowledge gaps, harmful attitudes, environmental constraints, and skill deficits that hinder their potential for improved health and quality of life.

The environmental constraints are predictable, said Hussein: water scarcity, high heat, poor soil fertility and diseases like the Ug99 strain of stem rust that was first discovered in neighboring Uganda.

It will facilitate the completion of applied projects, such as the selection or creation of coffee tree varieties with improved technological and / or qualitative characteristics; more resistant to environmental constraints and to bioagressors, such as for example orange leaf rust.

«However, no amount of reafforestation or growing of new trees will ultimately off - set continuing CO2 emissions due to environmental constraints on plant growth and the large amounts of remaining fossil fuel reserves.

Their numbers and occurrence will change depending on environmental constraints.

CAAS is a partner in the Global Rice Phenotyping Network with IRRI, which seeks to discover new rice genes that could help improve yield, resistance to diseases, tolerance to abiotic stresses and adaptation to environmental constraints, such as climate change.

Power companies and grid operators routinely shift generation among facilities to meet demand within economic and environmental constraints.

It's almost as if economic and environmental constraints are making developers and owners think outside the familiar boxes.

Here, we evaluate the nutritional needs of polar bears as well as the physiological and environmental constraints that shape their use of terrestrial ecosystems.

From the activities of the Koch brothers lobbying octopus in opposing any environmental constraints on business, to the vast subsidies the oil industry maintains even as profits are at record levels, to dirty tricks lobbying against meaningful climate action.

But I get the impression that many of the critics are simply having a knee - jerk reaction to any environmental constraint on the free market.

With decades of combined educational industry experience, we know and understand the environmental constraints and current obstacles that our school systems are facing today.

With decades of combined educational industry experience, we know and understand the environmental constraints and current obstacles that our school systems are facing today.