Sentences with phrase «resource consumption trends»

Not exact matches

Population growth, urbanization and consumption trends call for global resource management.

It comes with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and data on the proven efficiencies of cities.

Tim Jackson at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, doubts the trends will make a significant difference to our overall consumption, because resource efficiency in one area tends to be cancelled out by increased profligacy elsewhere.

Most indicators of the state of biodiversity (covering species» population trends, extinction risk, habitat extent and condition, and community composition) showed declines, with no significant recent reductions in rate, whereas indicators of pressures on biodiversity (including resource consumption, invasive alien species, nitrogen pollution, overexploitation, and climate change impacts) showed increases.

Current trends in consumption show that there will be insufficient water in general, and quality water in particular, to meet the world's growing needs without dramatically changing the way these finite resources are used, managed and shared.

Measuring trends in resource consumption, including individual, national and global ecological footprints

Geyer R, Davis J, Ley J, He J, Jackson T, Clift R, Kwan A, Sansom M (2007) Time - dependent material flow analysis of iron & steel in the UK — Part 1: Production & consumption trends 1970 - 2000, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 51 (1), 101 - 117.

They estimated the current amount of a resource, determined the rate of consumption, and added an expanding demand because of increasing industrialization and population growth to determine, with simple linear trend analysis, that the world was doomed.