Sentences with phrase «term ecosystem restoration»
Five months after the April 2010 disaster the Obama administration released a detailed recovery plan, calling for spending up to $ 21 billion — most which would come from BP's civil penalties — on clean - up and long - term ecosystem restoration.
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It also does not specifically spell out or emphasize an ecosystem - wide focus, making it less likely that proposed restoration projects will take that comprehensive approach but, rather, will end up as what some at the summit termed «random acts of restoration.»
Although improved reporting of ecosystem restoration benefits is needed, several CERP projects are starting to show ecosystem benefits, especially in terms of water conditions that are increasingly similar to circumstances prior to building drainage systems.
«Water quality is of great concern to California's Tribal governments not only for personal consumption, but also for the long term health and restoration of cultural habitats for traditional plants and animal life, ecosystems for healthy fish population, and access to traditional plants for food and ceremonial use,» adds Anecita Agustinez, a Tribal Policy Advisor at California's Department of Water Resources.
Our Shared Value Platform measures the cross-cutting value for each outcome produced by ecosystem restoration, and reports on those outcomes in monetary terms.
A radical theory of restoration biology takes the term rewilding and argues for restoring ecosystems to a state of pre-civilization integrity.
One key area which is thankfully starting to get more attention, if not action, in terms of combatting climate change is preservation and restoration of ecosystems.
And policymakers have potentially the greatest opportunity to add tremendous value for society by investing in basic science, applied R&D, and long - term markets to support and advance CDR systems, from potentially creating an «ARPA - C», to further incentivizing and mandating the monitoring, reporting and verification of different bio-carbon ecosystem restoration approaches, from «carbon farming» to «forestry.»
Jan developed recommendations to the Puget Sound Partnership on the use of innovative financial mechanisms for the recovery of the Puget Sound ecosystem, worked with the Puget Sound Restoration Fund to establish a payments for services pilot for nitrogen removal by shellfish in Puget Sound, assisted BC Hydro develop performance measures for their long term environmental goal, and led studies evaluating impacts of flow alteration on aquatic ecosystems for King County.
Ecological restoration is rooted in the understanding of past ecosystem dynamics, and paleoecological reconstructions provide a long - term perspective on landscape change, vegetation dynamics, and fire history.