Sentences with phrase «productive systems»

This isn't always the most productive system, however.

It is indeed disturbing to see such rapid transformation of an important, productive system where we had no reason to suspect that was even possible.

Solving the remainder — including black carbon — requires changed productive systems and practices over a number of sectors.

Economic freedom fuels technological innovation and economic growth provides resources for the «creative destruction» of capitalism and the transition to more modern and efficient productive systems.

The challenge consists in articulating in new ways the commercial interdependence (by, for example, giving a major new role in international negotiation of these problems to UNCED), monetary and financial interdependence (with a view to channeling available capital in directions which would allow the expansion of productive systems).

As the response from many permaculturists in the comments argue, the whole point of permaculture is not to create replicas of natural forests, but rather to learn the strategies evident in nature to create productive systems geared to producing food.

The deterioration of natural productive systems in the many ways so far discussed exemplifies the ecological principle that over-use converts renewable resources into nonrenewable ones.

The combined area of the three biologically productive systems on land is shrinking, while what is left, wasteland and areas covered with human settlements, are expanding (Brown 1990).

Kelp forests at the Channel Islands experience a mixing of both warm water currents from the south and cold water currents from the north creating a highly productive system and supporting an incredible abundance and diversity of marine life.

Based on thermodynamics, researchers study ecological, territorial, and productive systems using several methodologies including energy evaluation, Ecological Footprint, energy analysis, and greenhouse gases inventory.

This is changing as technology evolves in a process that takes decades in gestation but which will ultimately rapidly transform productive systems.

The imbalance between production capacities on the one hand and those of consumption on the other, endlessly deepened by growing inequalities themselves the result of neo-liberal policies, engenders a surplus that can not be invested in the expansion of productive systems.

Studies have found that kelp forests are one of the most productive systems in the ocean with high biodiversity and ecological function.

But in its neoliberal form it becomes a nightmare lived by the victims of unemployment, young people traumatized by the future, workers shut out of the productive system and nations subjected to structural adjustment, labour deregulation, the erosion of social security systems and the elimination of networks serving the poor.

One: the attempt of the US and other triad powers to take advantage of the financial crisis of Korea, to dismantle its productive system and submit it.

The challenge lies in the puzzle's restrictive rules, but for the exhibiting artists, Sudoku offered a productive system with which to responsively create new interdisciplinary work, and -LSB-...]

Global economic growth provides resources not just for the technological innovations on electricity (26 % of global greenhouse gas emissions) and liquid fuels (13 %) that are inevitable but also to fuel the creative destruction of capitalism that transforms productive systems.

- Recycling of 99 % industrial waste; - Water re-use in the productive system; - PVC re-use; - Paint waste re-use; - And social initiatives like encouraging healthy habits in its employees.