Sentences with phrase «term human footprint»

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The larger question is the extreme risk (both in human and economic terms) that the exponential growth of the human footprint along the US Southern Coastline has created.

I didn't yet watch the entire session, but I'm wondering if anyone made a case regarding the lack of any long term worsening trend in climate change related issues (sea level rise, glacier melt, tropical systems, floods, extreme drought, tornadoes, etc) comparing pre 1950 (the consensus view of the birth of any potentially observable human footprint on GW) to post 1950?

There are a number of emerging technologies that have the potential to markedly reduce the human footprint at the global level, in terms of energy, water, emissions of contaminants and other impacts.

The term Ecological Footprint, capitalized, is a proper name referring to a specific research question: how much of the biological capacity of the planet is demanded by a given human activity or population?

See «Ecological Footprints and Bio-Capacity: Essential Elements in Sustainability Assessment» by William E. Rees: «humanity had already «overshot» the long - term human carrying capacity of the Earth by about 20 % in 1999 — the whole planet is in deficit.

'' «Electrosmog» refers to the electromagnetic fields emitted by computers and mobile phones, «eco-village» is a term used for small ecologically - sustainable communities and «carbon footprint» is the measure of the impact human activities on the environment.»

He will discuss Cradle to Cradle as a design protocol that can change how we make things — products, architecture, cities, and more — and help us think about the human footprint in positive terms, rather than something to be minimized toward a goal of zero.