Sentences with phrase «of ecological sustainability»

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Its of course theoretically and politically possible that the climate negotiations will gain in equity but lose in terms of ecological sustainability.

In the context of ecological sustainability, after all, passive construction is the opposite of apathetic — it's an aggressive, conscientious effort to battle the planet's energy problems from the ground up.

I wish every new building was designed on the principles of ecological sustainability and not just naked greed.

This makes the Ecological Footprint a highly unreliable, even misleading, indicator of ecological sustainability.

This thought experiment illustrates that the EF not only fails to provide a robust measure of ecological sustainability, but also offers poor guidance for policy - makers in identifying and evaluating options to improve use and management of natural capital.

To enforce, in the name of ecological sustainability, policies that violate the sense of justice of the people involved introduces an element that is very likely to make those policies unsustainable.24

Not exact matches

«Sustainability» is a catch - all phrase that refers to the science, or practice, of acting so as not to harm the environment, protecting (rather than depleting) natural resources and supporting long - term ecological balance.

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The Husseini Group, has over a decade of funding ventures that embrace social enhancement and ecological sustainability with numerous notable holdings, including Infenera (NASDAQ: INFN), Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA), Bloom Energy, Ethical Electric, Zep Solar (acquired by Solar City (NASDAQ: SCTY), Thrive Market, Kevita, Cornerstone Capital, Sites.com (acquired by Internet Brands (NASDAQ: INET) and many others.

The objective of the EEZ Act is the familiar sustainability rhetoric — enable economic growth while maintaining ecological integrity — but it is tricky business because these are large capital - intensive projects in remote locations that bring environmental risks that are considered low probability with severe consequences.

That Alberta has a government that is committed to Green principles which include, but are not limited to, the 6 principles of the world - wide Green Party movement — Ecological wisdom, Social justice, Participatory democracy, Non-violence, Sustainability and Respect for diversity.

Birch and Cobb propose that to live out such an ethic one must act personally and politically to promote two complementary ideals: ecological sustainability in our relations to the rest of nature, and social justice among humans.

As Birch and Cobb would put it, can Christians develop ways of thinking about God and the world that encourage ecological sustainability and social justice?

In concrete fashion the document advances three values against which energy policies and technologies may be measured for their consistency with the goal of ecological justice: sustainability, equity and participation.

The vanguard of reformers for peace, justice and ecological sustainability are not the political leaders.

Still others have noted the impact of globalization on the environment and have raised in more pointed ways issues related to sustainability and ecological health.

It was clear to many of us that peace and ecological sustainability were to be forever closely related.

Ours is a time of three momentous tensions: the tension between war and peace, between social injustice and social justice, and between industrialization and ecological sustainability.

(1991) Ecological Economics: The science and managment of Sustainability New York: Columbia University Press.

Continued research and innovation is needed to improve production techniques and yields, the ecological sustainability of organic agriculture, and the social responsibility and fairness in its value chains.

To recognize that sustainability is a journey and must encompass a full range of best practices across societal, ecological, economic, cultural, and accountability dimensions.

With a shared vision of how organic principles and practices can benefit all of human society and the planet's diverse ecosystems, IFOAM — Organics International and the International Society of Organic Farming Research (ISOFAR), and their generous supporters, the government of Goesan County, Republic of Korea, held an International Organic Expo from 18 September — 11 October 2015, to imagine and plan the future of the organic sector and its contribution to ecological sustainability and societal well - being.

Important to AAA inspectors are ecological sustainability in an establishment's approach, as well as the use of noted technology trends such as easy to use alarm clocks with device docks and device mirroring panels.

The point of this web site is quite specific — to discuss environmental and ecological sustainability in the coffee industry and highlight companies that have strong records in this regard which provide the background and information so like - minded consumers can make a choice based on those preferences.

I don't see how this homegenization of standards and «race to the bottom» offers any incentive for serious improvements to exceptional ecological sustainability.

The occurrence of an extreme ecological disturbance, Hurricane Mitch, provided an opportunity to assess a decade of sustainable land management practices in Nicaragua and to see if the practices were actually leading to higher levels of sustainability.

This will happen by adopting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that works to implement best practices across a full spectrum of sustainability dimensions — social, ecological, economic, cultural and accountability — for the benefit of all of agriculture and the peoples of the world that depend on it.

The goal of the Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality is to show the link between best social, ecological and economic sustainability practices and quality in the cup.

Howie is a socialist who believes self - organization, independent political action, and international solidarity by the working class and oppressed people for full political and economic democracy is the way to build a society of freedom, equality, solidarity, peace, and ecological sustainability.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

His study of 138 countries is the first ever to take a global approach to the connections between growth, prosperity and ecological sustainability.

«This tool is designed to help us evaluate a fishery system's performance toward achieving economic, community and ecological sustainability — the «triple bottom line,»» said co-author James Anderson, director of the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Florida.

Foley has won numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (awarded by President Bill Clinton); the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Award; the J.S. McDonnell Foundation's 21st Century Science Award; an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship; and the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

By expanding NOAA research — now at about $ 10 million, but the agency requested a 50 % boost for FY 2011 — the agency would be able to do more ecological and technological analysis to improve and monitor the sustainability of aquaculture operations.

Public health should take advantage of the newly shifted terrain to make the case that any trade or investment policy that prizes economic growth over reducing health inequities and enhancing ecological sustainability is bad policy.»

«Future challenges in Australia will be to protect a marine environment that contains growing humpback whale populations and to develop alternative approaches to ecological sustainability,» said Dr. David Johnston of Duke University USA, co-author of the study.

Abstract: Contemporary sustainability science and practice must embrace the complexity of social - ecological systems and capitalize on the lessons learned from the recent theoretical and applied a

Dr. Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, said:

Among other activities, the programme teaches agriculture to help members of the community improve the yield of their kitchen gardens, facilitates ecological sustainability and broadens educational options for marginalized community members helping the Roma settle and become part of local communities.

Although it is true that the constitution of the United Nations represented itself as an effort of intergovernmental cooperation and plural unity of human diversity, creating a planetary consciousness of belonging to a community with a common destiny, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forces us to create new symbiosis between ecological sustainability and human rights.

Ashwani Vasishth (USA) is an Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, and directs the Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies at Ramapo College and is also engaged with urban ecology projects from within a social - ecological - systems perspective, at http://sustainablejc.org.

Ashish coordinates the People's Sustainability Treaty on Radical Ecological Democracy and is the author or editor (singly or jointly with others) of over 30 books including «Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India».

The ability of communities and humanity as a whole, to respond, adapt, and sustain the resilience needed to maintain ecological sustainability and equity in the face of external and internal forces of change, including through respecting conditions, like diversity, enabling the resilience of nature.

The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

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this is a historic epistle written by the nobel prize laureate of Kenya regarding her all round approach to promoting ecological sustainability as the key to expanding social justice.

With this understanding in mind, Bill explores the moral norms of ecological and social sustainability.