Sentences with phrase «global ecosystem degradation»

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His research is at the interface of ecosystems, land use, and climate change focusing on tropical deforestation and degradation, functional diversity of tropical canopies, conservation of African savannas, invasive species and climate change, and the effects of land use on the global carbon cycle.

As an African grass roots organization that has demonstrated the success of its holistic approach to the interrelated problems of environmental degradation, poverty and women's rights, and governance, we have established The Green Belt Movement International (www.greenbeltmovement.org) to ensure that the work of the GBM in Kenya expands and is sustained, facilitate the sharing of the work with other parts of Africa and beyond, to institutionalize the work and experiences of GBM so future generations can continue to learn and be empowered by this example and to continue to support important global campaigns and struggles that represent the linkage between the environment, democracy and peace, such as the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCC.

Even some staunch libertarians, including Indur Goklany, the Cato Institute scholar and author of «The Improving State of the World,» agree that the degradation of ecosystems is one of the few global indicators heading in the wrong direction.

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

Linwood Pendleton of Duke University, North Carolina has produced a paper, Estimating Global «Blue Carbon» Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems, with a large group of fellow - scientists which elucidates this large calculation.

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).

It is worth noting in passing that this lack suggests an important global - level policy recommendation, namely, the world's nations should commit to assessing land / ecosystem degradation using standardized methods to enable us to apply a «sustainability factor» to our present eco-Footprint estimates.

The third and final fact is that there is no inconsistency between the existence of reserves in some global biocapacity categories and the fact of local ecosystem degradation.

There is growing realization of the strong interactions between degradation of near - surface permafrost on the dynamics of ecosystems, and that these interactions together influence local and global environmental, economic, and social systems.

The biodiversity crisis — i.e. the rapid loss of species and the rapid degradation of ecosystems — is probably a greater threat than global climate change to the stability and prosperous future of mankind on Earth.

Climate change is causing widespread thawing and degradation of permafrost, which has associated impacts on infrastructure, ecosystems, and the global carbon cycle.