Sentences with phrase «relative value to the community»

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Taking Leopold's land ethic as paradigmatic for environmental ethics as such, Callicott insists that «environmental ethics locates ultimate value in the «biotic community» and assigns differential moral value to the constitutive individuals relative to that standard» (AL 337).

The positive moral value that emerged from this conviction was a sense of joyous confidence, that transformed the little community from a mood of passive waiting to urgency in witness, fidelity in mutual service, and at least relative steadfastness in the Christian virtues.

Yet the global policy and science communities do not differentiate among the relative values of different types of forest landscapes — which range from highly intact ones to those which are heavily logged, fragmented, burnt, drained and / or over-hunted — due in part to the lack of a uniform way of measuring their quality.

Regardless of what metrics and other assessments of a markets relative value, 2018 projects to be another positive year for the residential real estate investment community.

Studies show that homeownership has a positive social impact in communities, such as heightened civic participation, increased educational achievement, lower crime rates, raising property values, and homeowners maintain and improve their properties relative to renters.