Housing
production per capita is measured as units authorized by permit plus manufactured housing placements divided by estimated resident population.
The timing of peak
production per capita varies among the three pairs of projections.
Total energy
production per capita resumed increasing after 2000 only because of rapidly growing fossil fuel production (which accounted for 98 per cent of the per capita increase for 2000 — 2005).
Consequently, energy
production per capita grew 143 per cent from 26.6 to 64.6 million Btu per person (approx. 4.5 to 11.0 barrels of oil equivalent per capita).
Because fossil fuel production peaks and subsequently declines,
production per capita will also decline.
The absolute level of
production per capita peaks in the low / low scenario pair at 63.8 million Btu per person in 2020; in the medium / medium scenario pair,
production per capita peaks at 64.3 million Btu per person in 2025; in the high / high scenario pair,
production per capita peaks at 65.2 million Btu per person in 2030.
World fossil fuel
production per capita will thus begin an irreversible decline between 2020 and 2030.
Fossil fuel
production per capita actually declined 5 per cent during this period.
I remember estimating it once and the average Japanese oil
production per capita is about one cup per person per day.
At that rate, energy
production per capita will fall to its 1930 level by 2030.
Indeed, notes Rutgers biologist David Ehrenfeld, studies by prominent oil geologists show that «global energy
production per capita reached its peak in 1979 and has been falling at an average rate of 0.33 percent per year ever since.»
«If you look at calorie
production per capita we're producing more than enough food for 7 billion people now, but we waste 30 to 40 percent of it,» Reganold said.
Thanks to growing population and dwindling supplies, fossil fuel
production per capita may peak by mid-century — ending the two centuries of unlimited growth in energy production that is at the root of modern civilization, consultant Richard Nehring writes in the journal.
Not exact matches
That might not sound like much but when you look at cultural
production on a
per capita basis, Canada shoots up to fourth.
Included in Goal no. 12 on «responsible consumption and
production» is a call to «halve
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels.»
According to findings of the country's National
Production Council, in 1983 the daily consumption
per person was twenty - three grams.6 Per capita consumption of meat for Costa Ricans declined after that, in spite of the fact that consumption was already at an unacceptable level for supporting basic protein nutriti
per person was twenty - three grams.6
Per capita consumption of meat for Costa Ricans declined after that, in spite of the fact that consumption was already at an unacceptable level for supporting basic protein nutriti
Per capita consumption of meat for Costa Ricans declined after that, in spite of the fact that consumption was already at an unacceptable level for supporting basic protein nutrition.
Preachers and theologians, on the other hand, are just the opposite, focusing on those aspects of man that transcend material
production; for them, man is possessed of a dignity that can't be measured in
per capita income.
Accordingly, the increase of
per capita production and consumption is slow.
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.
Policies designed to strengthen communities in general lead to some increase in
per capita production and consumption.
Turning from
per capita production to total global
production, the total
production from forests has been declining for several years (Brown 1991).
By the time the population had reached 4 billion in 1976 the
per capita production of forest wood and the products of grasslands (beef, mutton and wool) began to decline and have continued that trend ever since.
Where population growth is slowest, Western Europe,
per capita food
production is rising most rapidly.
Per capita grain
production varied from region to region.
«Dairy consumption
per capita has declined in recent years, but the number of products and choices available to the consumer has not, so we're looking at shorter
production runs,» Graziani says, adding that the company is increasing its focus on lean manufacturing and Six Sigma programs in its plants.
Target 12.3 of the goals calls for nations to «halve
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along
production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses» by 2030.
Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 «ensure sustainable consumption and
production patterns» has target 12.3 «by 2030, halve the
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along
production and supply chains including post-harvest losses».
Target 12.3 is to halve
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along
production and supply chains by 2030.
Rapid growth in coffee
production in South America during the second half of the 19th century was matched by growth in consumption in developed countries, though nowhere has this growth been as pronounced as in the United States, where high rate of population growth was compounded by doubling of
per capita consumption between 1860 and 1920.
Halving the
per capita of global food waste at the retailer and consumer levels is also important for creating more efficient
production and supply chains.
Goal 12 — to ensure sustainable
production and consumption patterns — is broken down into 11 smaller goals; 12.3 is to halve
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along
production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.
The Champion 12.3 partners are directly addressing Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 — to halve
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food loss along
production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.
A key factor will be if the US consumer continues increasing their
per capita consumption — soaking up much of the growing US
production and preventing a large portion of product from entering export markets.
Target 12.3 calls on the world to «halve
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along
production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses» by 2030.
Among them is Target 12.3, which calls for cutting in half
per capita global food waste at retail and consumer levels and for reducing food losses along
production and supply chains by 2030.
Target 12.3 specifically aims to halve
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along
production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.
If that's true, there's serious cause for concern: as recounted in a recent Washington Post op - ed on the subject, there's been a five-fold increase in the
per -
capita production of food dyes over the past 50 years.
Target 12.3 specifically aims to halve
per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along
production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.
«Amazon floodplains and river channels — maintained by seasonal floods — promote nutrient cycling and high biological
production, and support diverse biological communities as well as human populations with one of the highest
per capita rates of fish consumption,» said Castello.
Per capita food
production in sub-Saharan Africa is at last rising.
«If we look to the future, at today's
per capita fish intake around the world we would need to double aquaculture
production.»
Figure 17 is a plot of
per capita consumption of salt for eighteen countries, with reported statistical data on
production and trade for the years 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, and 1995.
Salt differs from the three mineral commodities discussed earlier in an important respect — world
per capita consumption of salt (
production divided by world population) dropped between 1970 and 1995.
Of these, Uganda has high consumption
per capita, and appears to be experiencing the most rapid growth in
production.
That determination was made by consulting firm Maplecroft in their Food Security Index 2010 based on 12 criteria developed in cooperation with the World Food Programme: Nutritional and health status of populations, grain
production and imports, GDP
per capita, natural disasters, conflict, and effectiveness of government, and more.
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?
Without some new kinds of policies and human - driven action, humankind could soon come face to face with daunting, human - caused challenges, over which human beings appear to have at least a modicum of control because the increase of conspicious
per capita consumption, seemingly endless
production, and skyrocketing propagation by the human species has evidently brought certain global challenges into being.
Sure, if the top 5 producers of CO2, by absolute, over time, or
per capita (different top 5 depending on how you measure it, US, Australia, UK, China, whomever), were to reduce their
production by 85 %, we'd be well on our way to a solution.
if that is the case, is the distribution
per capita or based on existing
production?
Perhaps leaders are now called upon to lead by reasonably and sensibly limiting the global growth of human numbers,
per capita consumption and endlessly expanding
production capabitities so that we find a balanced relationship with nature and, consequently, give this marvelous planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit the time it requires for self - renewal.