Sentences with phrase «of resource extraction»

Why hasn't more attention been paid to the environmental risks of resource extraction?

The ombudsperson takes into account the unique perspectives of Indigenous women and addresses the particular impacts of resource extraction on women.

While some changes, such as in efficiency technologies, can increase resource - use efficiency, other changes, such as in extraction technologies and consumption technologies, raise the scale of resource extraction and per capita resource consumption.

Yep, I support ANWR drilling for the same reason Peter Maass does: to force people to confront the real costs of resource extraction by having it done in their back yard.

Putting oil money at the service of development in Africa means tackling the increasingly criminalized character of political leaders and their global networks of resource extraction, not peddling yet another package of technocratic reforms.

When I think of Basic Materials, I think of resource extraction: timber, mining, agriculture, non-energy stuff.

SIMCA is classified as a Category II World Conservation Union Area adhering to a strict «no - take» policy which excludes all types of resource extraction.

In a powerful song, Bruce Cockburn once decried the 20th - century «cut and move on» pattern of resource extraction, asking, «If a tree falls in a forest, does anybody hear?»

National monuments are being shrunken or changed to to open them up for mining, fishing and other forms of resource extraction.

C. and G. Wagner (2007): «Steady - state growth in a Hotelling model of resource extraction,» Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 54, 68 - 83.

Some good things happened this last week at the Arctic Council ministerial meeting in Nuuk, Greenland, but the sense of urgency to protect the world's last great wilderness from the ravages of resource extraction — and to slow Arctic warming and melting — was lacking.

We lived based on an economy of resource extraction, including fishing, hunting, trapping and berry gathering; our ancestors prospered, grew and grew from these lands for thousands of years.

Chief Ominayak did however succeed, if that is the right word, in his petition before the HRC on the grounds that the degree and intensity of resource extraction occurring in the traditional territory of the Lubicon Cree was so extensive as to deprive the Lubicon of access to the material aspects of their culture.

«Over,» formally titled «Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot,» explores themes at the heart of this blog — the harms from persistent high fertility rates, consumption for consumption's sake, disregard for the environmental and social impacts of resource extraction.

If we do not interrupt the cycles of resource extraction and over-consumption that drive the corporate marketplace, we will push ourselves, and millions of other species, beyond the carrying capacity of our planet.

By reclaiming some of the battery materials (zinc, manganese and steel, for instance), fewer virgin materials are needed, which can offset part of the environmental impact of resource extraction.

They say, «Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use.»