Sentences with phrase «per capita resource»

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.»

It estimates that per capita resource consumption of materials needs to be reduced by 80 % to achieve sustainable development.

«The average per capita resource use in wealthy countries is 5 to 10 times higher than in developing countries, and the developed countries are responsible for over three quarters of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from 1850 to 2000.»

It proposes no point at which per capita resource use would cease to grow anywhere, since its whole theory is about how to increase production and consumption.

TreeHugger talks a lot about re-energizing urban areas and «city - fying» the world, so we can make better use of space, use less per capita resources and generally be more efficient planet - dwellers.

Truth is that per capita resources over many millenia, till about 15 - 1600 or so or so when they took off.

An equitable distribution of primary health care and an equal standard of health infrastructure should not be measured in terms of formal equality - that is that the same per capita resources are being devoted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous health.

Not exact matches

The world's most populous country also has just 25 % of the world's average per capita water resources.

The study ranked urban centers — excluding the larger metro areas — using three factors: local business environment (length of the average workweek, revenue growth, industry variety), access to resources (financing and the amount of venture capital investment made per capita), and costs (office space affordability, labor costs, corporate taxes, and cost of living).

The site rated the locations on 18 key metrics across three different categories: Business Environment (including average revenue growth per business, start - ups per capita and average length of work week and commute times), Access to Resources (number of working age, college - educated residents in the area, etc.) and Business Costs (cost of living, office space affordability and others).

Yet, China's per - capita consumption of power and freshwater resources is significantly lower than that of countries such as the US, Japan and Korea.

It is the per capita consumption in industrialized countries that causes the greatest environmental problems, such as exhaustion of resources and global warming.

First, the planet simply can not support its present population, much less the much larger one anticipated in the future, using resources at the per capita rate now typical in the First World.

Pressure on resources is, of course, a combination of population and per capita consumption.

5.1 hectares: per capita ecological footprint in Western Europe (subregion's biocapacity: 2.2 hectares, meaning Western Europeans depend on net imports of renewable natural resources and material contributions of nature to people)

Of the countries with the largest at risk populations, the authors suggest that India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh might be most vulnerable to impact because of their limited per capita health resources.

Per capita income in those nations has skyrocketed, raising the standard of living to unprecedented heights but creating ravenous new demand for energy and natural resources.

«These resources could include increased income, either via employment or per capita payments, and health - promoting community resources, such as housing, recreation and community centers, and health clinics.»

Economic terms students will learn about while playing include: deflation, embargo, exports, GDP, GDP per capita, globalization, hyperinflation, imports, inflation, monopoly, protectionism, quota, resources, scarcity, standards, subsidies, surplus, tariff, trade barrier, and trade deal.

The proposed formula would measure states» fiscal effort — how much they spend on education given their resources — based on total dollars rather than per - capita dollars.

The primary missions of the WATCVM include: promoting the education of TCVM by providing financial support to veterinary students, assisting in the development and functions of TCVM Student Associations at veterinary colleges, funding basic and applied research projects and providing recognition for findings at the annual TCVM conferences, developing TCVM research standards through the International Organization for Standards, and assisting developing countries with a per capita income of less than $ 4,000 USD to develop TCVM programs at veterinary colleges and award scholarships to students.In an effort to support the education, research and practice of TCVM, the WATCVM provides practitioners with the following resources:

One consequence of this pernicious denial of the requirements of practical reality is that the scale and rate of per capita consumption is dissipating natural resources faster than the Earth can restore them for human benefit.

unrestrained per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources and 3.

Thank you Betty Chambers for your tasteless disregard of the truth that the reckless and wasteful resource consumption of the United States adds up to over 22 % of the world's Carbon dioxide emissions, the highest per - capita in the world (if it's not because of our «wealthy» lifestyle in the west, then why is it?).

In a world where people are consuming increasingly more resources (including carbon) per capita, it only seems logical that to make significant improvements to the earth's natural environment we must address consumption AND population.

Perhaps now is an appropriate occasion to discuss how the family of humanity could begin the limit INCREASES ONLY in the growth of unrestricted per - capita consumption of Earth's resources, untethered economic globalization, and skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers.

Humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge that takes its astounding shape from continuously skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers as well as from economic globalization and per - capita consumption of limited resources by the human species.

Per capita consumption is a function of economies of scale from a growing population, so a shrinking population will not consume at the same rate, even though the resources are there to exploit.

Many too many so - called and self - proclaimed people with «expertise» assure us that we simply need to do nothing other than that which we are doing now; that we must «stay the course» of unbridled economic growth, increasingly conspicuous per - capita resource overconsumption, and unregulated propagation of absolute global human population numbers.

A global warming phenomenon in our spaceship is one of several unintended effects of the unregulated, swift increase of 1) absolute global human population numbers, 2) per capita consumption of limited resources, and 3) large - scale business activities that could be occurring synergistically and approaching a point in history when it will not be possible for the Earth's resource base and frangible ecosystems services to sustain life as we now know it to be.

If we keep doing what we are doing now — as we relentlessly grow global economic production capabilities, adamantly condone skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers, and foolishly raise the level of per capita consumption of limited resources — are we not likely to keep getting what we are getting now?

Unintended, pernicious challenges resulting from unrestrained increase of per capita over-consumption of Earth's finite resources appear to be threatening to ravage our planetary home.

Pimentel and Wilson pointed out that «As the world population continues to expand, all vital natural resources will have to be divided among increasing numbers of people and per - capita availability will decline to low levels.

U.S. should use 4.5 % of resources (per capita numbers are similar for Australia, Canada, Switzerland, etc.) Ergo, 80 % reduction just to fit into a just social milieu allowing others to consume more.

Australia is the highest per capita emitter, heavily reliant on coal and resources industries have very strong political influence.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.

David Pimentel and Anne Wilson pointed out that «As the world population continues to expand, all vital natural resources will have to be divided among increasing numbers of people and per - capita availability will decline to low levels.

My generation of elders appears to be mortgaging and threatening the future of coming generations by remaining religiously focused upon the endless accumulation of material wealth, the unrestrained increase in per capita consumption of limited resources, and the continuous consolidation of political / military power used to conquer Earth.

The immediate consequences are the problem of (1) building an infrastructure to handle the future numbers (2) taking care of the current problems of a growing population, and (3) the economics of shrinking resources (per capita as well as the grand total).

It can enable reasonable living standards to be obtained with smaller per capita consumption of resources, but more efficient technology can also lead to increasing extraction rates — chainsaw logging of forests and industrial scale deep sea fishing, for example.

Globally, India is the third largest carbon - emitting country — though its per capita emissions are only one third of the international average — according to the World Resources Institute.

However we do definitely know we need to obviously adopt renewable energy and consume a lot less resources per capita.

If this is the case, India is likely to face a widening ecological deficit even if current per - capita levels of resource consumption remain the same.

The unrestricted consolidation of filthy lucre and political / military power, the unbridled expansion of economic globalization, the unrestrained per - capita overconsumption of limited resources and the unchecked human overpopulation on the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home God blesses us to inhabit, could soon become unsustainable.

Global populations in the Bronze Age were only a tiny fraction of the 7 billion - plus now exploiting the Earth's resources, and the 400 million people in the 22 countries of the Middle East and North Africa are already living on daily water supplies that are about one - tenth of the global average per capita.

The reasons for this are that the remaining carbon budget is so small, the per capita and historical emissions of high - emitting developed nations are so large compared to poor developing countries, and the financial resources of developed countries are so large compared to poor developing countries that equity considerations demand that the high - emitting nations financially help developing nations achieve their targets.

Most of those people will be fairly poor (by Western standards, though hopefully less so than their forbearers), which means their per - capita consumption of resources will be fairly low.

The result is relatively higher adaptation and disaster risk reduction costs per capita in countries with small populations and areas, especially those that are also geographically isolated, have a poor resource base and high transport costs

China's water resources per capita, for example, are only 35 percent of the global average, and India's are just 19 percent.

The unique development of Dubai has thoroughly encountered critical challenges such as limited natural resources and high energy consumption per capita relevant to the existing arid climate.