Sentences with phrase «of ecological degradation»

To be sure, it is unlikely that the effects of ecological degradation in our time, though enormous, will prove «apocalyptic» for human civilization within a single generation, even under conditions of capitalist business as usual.

Once an expansive 46 - acre network of wetlands, dunes, and a 13 - acre open freshwater lagoon, the area has suffered more than a century of ecological degradation from agriculture, recreation, and road construction.

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And so a serious question now faces the United States: Does the new SCOTUS ruling put us down a new path of human ecological degradation?

We could not choose between issues of social justice and ecological degradation.

It includes the ecological cycles that maintain the composition of the atmosphere and the oceans and those that are responsible for the degradation of wastes.

Local control over common resources helps to break the cycle of economic and ecological degradation.

They can unite in measures that prevent ecological degradation — such as deforestation, pollution of lakes and rivers, and so on.

On the other hand, well - managed tea production landscapes can help arrest or even reverse land degradation, while providing a range of economic and ecological benefits for local communities, downstream beneficiaries, and the global commons.

As a result of deforestation, consequent erosion and a breakdown in the water cycle, crisis point was reached in 1990 when it was realised that 14000 km2 was suffering extreme ecological degradation.

It said that increased production of meat and dairy products «undermines the ecological foundation of food security due to its contribution to land degradation, water pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change».1

Because of their vulnerability, frogs and salamanders are frequently the first animals to succumb to environmental degradation, and thus are now looked upon as the ecological equivalent of the proverbial canary in the mine shaft.

The group will «sound a warning» that business as usual will lead to ecological degradation and economic loss, said David Miliband, one of the group's co-chairs and former foreign secretary of the United Kingdom.

The new carbon map also reveals Perú's extremely high ecological diversity and it provides the critical input to studies of deforestation and forest degradation for conservation, land use, and enforcement purposes.

The study, «Beneath the Canopy: Tropical forests enrolled in conservation payments reveal evidence of less degradation,» recently was published in the current issue of Ecological Economics.

By comparing historical changes in 12 bodies of water worldwide, a new study highlights the extent to which civilization's advance has led to ecological degradation.

Detection of gene repertoires related to ecological functions (phagocytosis, organic matter degradation, membrane transporters, meiosis) in different lineages of heterotrophic microeukaryotes.

Amelia's broader research focuses on connecting ecological and spatial data to assess responses of coastal and marine systems to threats, in order to determine ecological ramifications of ecosystem degradation.

Against Moran's sinuous improvisations, Jonas drew prehistoric fish, donned hand - painted paper masks, and detailed the degradation of local landscapes — and her fearsome ecological vision became all the more powerful through its tender delivery.

I was invited to speak on the remarkable ability of landscapes to recover ecological vigor and aesthetic appeal even after extraordinary degradation.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

Other ecological crises of great importance are not, however, dealt with here: species extinction (and loss of biological diversity in general), deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, acid rain, the proliferation of toxic wastes (including in living tissues), market - regulated biotechnology, urban congestion, population growth, and animal rights.

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).

Rainforest Rescue of Germany and Ecological Internet have launched a campaign leading to Copenhagen's climate talks in December to ensure carbon based funding for forest protection — called avoided deforestation, or Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)-- remains ecologically and socially rigorous, or does not proceed at all.

Key causative pathways from physical drought to the degradation of ecological, economic, and social health remain poorly understood and quantified.

While we applaud these efforts, which can ease ecological stress in the short - term, minimizing environmental degradation is not a strategy for real change, nor does it offer an inspiring vision of success.

Natural capital degradation: possible effects of global warming on the geographic range of beech trees based on ecological evidence and computer models.

50 Beech Future range Overlap Present range Fig. 20 - 13, p. 478 Figure 20.13 Natural capital degradation: possible effects of global warming on the geographic range of beech trees based on ecological evidence and computer models.

The alternative is continued ecological degradation and a worsening of climate change, which in turn would make food production harder.

«The fundamental problem with issues such as Climate Change and Ecological Degradation is that they stem from a core problem, the exponential growth of human demands upon the earth, and thus the only solution is an end to that growth.