Sentences with phrase «of ecosystem degradation»

The Platform was developed by accessing accredited governmental, academic, and independent research in order to estimate the social costs of ecosystem degradation.

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.

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the key function of the dairy sector in the management of terrestrial ecosystems and the need to address environmental degradation and climate change, and to support biodiversity;

Halting of deforestation and degradation, and protection and restoration of degraded forests and ecosystems

Conduct research, analysis, and synthesis of the scientific literature to assess implementation processes and their effectiveness related to key elements of responsible commodity supply chains (e.g., curtailing deforestation and ecosystem destruction, avoiding forest degradation, promoting ecosystem restoration, improving land governance, and protecting human rights);

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and severe impacts on ecosystem services — which refer to nature's support of wildlife habitat, crop pollination, soil health and other benefits — have not only accompanied conventional farming systems, but have often extended well beyond the boundaries of their fields, such as fertilizer runoff into rivers.

National studies verify that the value of ecosystem services and benefits far outweigh the cost of preventing land degradation or the cost of remediation in most situations.

«Restoration priorities are typically based on the evidence for environmental degradation without explicitly accounting for the benefits people receive from ecosystems, which include recreational opportunities,» said lead researcher David Allan, professor emeritus of aquatic sciences at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Although attempts are undertaken to prevent degradation of land and nature in Europe, biodiversity has decreased and the acreage of natural ecosystems has further declined.

This study was the first to simulate whole ecosystem warming in the arctic, including permafrost degradation, similar to what is projected to happen as a result of climate change.

«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and animals in the wetlands; declines in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science.

Anthropomorphic changes threaten the stability of coastal ecosystems, but whether economic growth contributes to such degradation is unknown.

Although specific microbial halogenation reactions have been recognized for decades and the link between the dehalogenation of anthropogenic halogenated contaminants in laboratory cultures and contaminated field sites has been well established, only a few studies specifically looked at pristine ecosystems and the genetic potential for microbial degradation of naturally occurring organohalogens, Kappler says.

Although the conversion of pasture for sugarcane and other monocrops on Peixoto's farm has contributed to the degradation of the Cerrado ecosystem, she and her husband consider themselves nature lovers, and are ready to welcome back the big cats.

«Habitat loss, destruction and degradation of ecosystems, pollution, overexploitation and climate change are among the powerful and persistent impacts that are running down the planet's nature - based capital,» UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said in a statement announcing the book's release.

«The shrimp cocktail is a good example of how carbon cost associated with mangrove degradation way outweighs the actual product that is produced,» Emily Pidgeon of Conservation International told the audience at a session entitled «Blue Carbon, Green Opportunities: Innovative Solutions To Protect Coastal Ecosystems.»

As climate change converges with human encroachment in these mountains, the degradation of high Andean ecosystems is accelerating.

However, Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) as well as climate change can negatively affect the provision of these ecosystem services with potentially severe implications for food security, livelihoods, and human well - being.

It is now widely recognized that climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity are interconnected; not only through the effects of climate change on biodiversity and land management, but also through the changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning that affect climate change.

«Contrary to popular perception, logging is not uniformly a cause of deforestation and forest degradation, and thus emissions ecosystem services and other forms of land use coexist with logging concessions,» she wrote in response to Climate Home's questions.

Short - sighted economic gains such as land grabbing, unplanned urban sprawl, unsustainable agriculture and over-consumption lead to unsustainable land use, which eventually causes degradation and loss of critical ecosystem services.

At its 45th Session (Guadalajara, Mexico, 28 - 31 March 2017), the Panel approved the outline of Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

REDD + Offset Working Group (stateredd.org) was established in February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in November 2010 as part of a collaborative effort between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as «REDD +») and create policies to provide economic incentives for forest conservation by placing a value on living forests and their ecosystems.

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.

In the past 50 years, the human activity has been the main cause of environmental degradation and it has reached about 60 % of the Earth's ecosystem services (MEA, 2005).

The quality of life for modern society is vitally dependent on the provisioning of ecosystem services and their degradation has a dramatic environmental, economic, and social impact.

GOAL 15 — Life on Land — Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

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.

Coho Salmon >> This flagship fish of the Redwood creek watershed has a remarkable life cyle that makes it especially susceptible to habitat degradation and loss, and renders it an indicator of ecosystem's health.

Overfishing nearshore ecosystems leads to the degradation of kelp forests.

This means that these places are already protecting the wildlife, local communities, tribes and ecosystems so by travelling there you are supporting the preservation of these areas, not adding to their degradation both environmentally and socially.

She is symbolizing the sagging American dream, in the loss of ideals that could encompass everything from the Californian housing crisis and education degradation, to the destruction of the American ecosystem by giants like genetic engineering giant Monsanto, whose poison coated seeds are killing off the American bee population.

The role of prestidigitator took on a greater sense of purpose during a National Parks Residency in the Florida Everglades, when Lanyon became aware of the environmental degradation that threatened the surrounding natural ecosystems.

These Nobel Prize winners need to comprehensively investigate the interconnectedness of climate, ecosystem degradation, and humans» ability to survive.

- our almost - total inability as a species to calculate said risks, and what that deficiency means for the rest of the list - ocean degradation and ecosystem collapse, i.e. losing the things that we rely on, as well as causing irrevocable harm to a world we can't just create anew - rising GHG levels - water quality and availability across the globe - ensuring our communications networks are sustainable, which probably falls under the wider umbrella of energy - the fact that we are still unable to provide basic food, shelter, medicine and education to billions as it is, without the additional stresses of what the future may bring

It is simply this: Earth's body is finite, its resources are limited, and its ecosystem services capable of irreversible degradation by the huge scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the ones we see rampantly overspreading the surface of our planetary home in our time.

When I think of all the bombs we've paid for and dropped, people we've killed, beautiful lands we've destroyed, if the scores also included contributing to the denuding and degradation of the other countries ecosystems along with C02 emissions from our tanks, hummers, etc., I'm sure we'd have precipitously plummeted to about 148.

But van Huissteden referred to recolonization of plants in thawed areas and the ensuing recovery of the ecosystem as a «neglected factor in carbon release by permafrost degradation.»

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.

We argue that the economic invisibility of nature is one of the main drivers for the loss of biodiversity and the ongoing degradation of ecosystem.

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.

Another major environmental stress for which population growth is directly responsible is degradation of coastal ecosystems.

Relatively rapid degradation of ice - rich permafrost is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological process and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

The side - by - side display of historical and current remote - sensing images highlights forest degradation, wetland drainage, and shrinking lakes to the impacts of refugees on fragile ecosystems and signs of coastal degradation.

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).

«If droughts become more frequent, as expected, the time between droughts may become shorter than drought recovery time, leading to permanently damaged ecosystems and widespread degradation of the land carbon sink.»

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.

It features chapters on: the year in review, which highlights environmental extremes, including record extreme weather and climate events and increasing degradation of marine ecosystems, but notes progress towards new investments in renewable energy and towards a green economy; the benefits of soil carbon; the closing and decommissioning of nuclear power reactors; and on key environmental indicators, which underscores the need to address mounting challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and soil degradation.

New items were gradually added to the list, ranging from the degradation of ecosystems to threats to human health.