Sentences with phrase «minimizing human impact on the environment»

Organic production is a production system designed to minimize the human impact on the environment, while ensuring the agricultural system operates as naturally as possible.»

While these strategies represent a marked improvement over land development patterns over the past decades, they tend to rely on minimizing human impact on the environment, striving only to be «less bad.»

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That's why Fry and others believe that a broader and better solution is one that would help humans while minimizing the impact on wildlife and the environment.

«Our ultimate goal is to minimize the impact of pest damages on urban life with, at the same time, no — or minimal — negative impact on the environment, non-target organisms, and human health.»

The existence of these services depends directly on the environmental protection and preservation, as well as on the practices that minimize the impacts of human actions on the environment.

12.4 by 2020 achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle in accordance with agreed international frameworks and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

By providing greater accountability of investment in environmental restoration projects, REF helps justify the case for minimizing adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

(a) Identification of the key sources of marine plastic debris and microplastics; (b) Identification of possible measures and best available techniques and environmental practices to prevent the accumulation and minimize the level of microplastics in the marine environment; (c) Recommendations for the most urgent actions; (d) Specification of areas especially in need of more research, including key impacts on the environment and on human health; (e) Any other relevant priority areas identified in the assessment of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection;

I hope that we can repeat our bipartisan success of the previous Congress in developing a bill that recognizes the need to develop the rich resources of the outer continental shelf but also to minimize the potential impact on the marine and coastal environment and on human health and safety.

The second session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (Geneva, 10 - 15 May 2009) will review progress made toward achieving the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation goal that by 2020 chemicals will be produced and used in ways that minimize significant adverse impacts on the environment and human health.