Sentences with phrase «use of its natural resources which»

All these continue to increase, especially because of the new life - style of the rich, and the irresponsible use of natural resources which add a peculiar burden on the ecosystem.

The island has long made great use of its natural resources which include vegetables, fruit, nuts and fish.

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It is important to note the political basis of an economic system as one of our basic dichotomies because there is a very real difference in the foundation of a capitalism in which the rules governing the system are determined by a few — rules concerning wages, monopolies, taxation, use of natural resources, government benefits, etc. — and one in which these rules are determined by representatives who are chosen by the general populace.

This system, dependent on a small affluent minority using a disproportionate share of the World's natural resources, was fast depleting the base upon which it rested: nonrenewable resources.

Given the present ecological realities of rising consumption and dwindling natural resources, can we be content with a situation in which 1 / 16th of the world's people use up at least 1/3 of the world's nonrenewable raw materials?

In contrast, the production and packaging of infant formulas uses natural resources and takes up landfill space, all of which contribute to climate change.

«Donor Charles Gelman, once labeled the second worst polluter in Michigan by the state's Department of Natural Resources, said in an interview that he considered the chemical, which is used to make baby bottles and aluminum can liners, to be safe.

The groups, which include the Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice and Frack Action, said using propane would create substantial risks because of the volatility of the gas, pointing to explosions at well sites in other states in recent years.

This action follows the release of the New York State Plastic Bags Task Force report in January, which outlined the environmental impact of plastic bags, single - use bag reduction measures, and proposed actions that the state could take to reduce pollution and protect New York's natural resources, including a ban on single - use plastic bags.

«Numerous organisations have recognised that use of antibiotics in agriculture poses risks to human health,» says Avinash Kar, a San Francisco - based lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which initiated legal action last year to try to force the FDA to phase out the growth promoters.

«The jet stream changes character every 10 to 12 days, and we use this pattern to predict the weather,» said Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science in MU's School of Natural Resources, which is located in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

The analysis, which used land elevation and tidal data, found that 460 acres, or about a sixth of Hallandale Beach, would be below sea level during high tide under a 3 - foot scenario of rise, according to Nancy Gassman, a natural resources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the assenatural resources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the asresources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the asseNatural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the asResources Planning and Management Division who worked on the assessment.

In her doctoral thesis, Henni Pulkkinen, Researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), explored how the various sources of uncertainty can be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment by using Bayesian statistical models, which enable extensive combining of information.

According to the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which has campaigned vigorously to ban use of the technology in waters rich in marine wildlife, recent cases of whale strandings likely represent a small fraction of sonar's toll, given that severely injured animals rarely make it to shore.

«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

Encouraging the uptake and use of biodegradable bags and materials is advantageous as this moves society away from a linear economic model based on «take, make, dispose», which relies on there being an infinite supply of resources and energy, to one that enables us to maximise the limited natural resources available.

Research and development to advance coal, natural gas, oil, and other fossil energy technologies, which will help the country make greater use of our rich natural energy resources and help keep down energy costs, are funded at $ 635 million — a decrease of $ 33 million below the fiscal year 2017 enacted level and $ 355 million above the budget request.

Australia has access to vast energy resources through sun, wind, biomass, natural gas and coal, all of which can be used to produce hydrogen and / or the desired energy carrier compound.

This natural resource, which inspires our attempts to understand the cosmos, should be protected through the use of well - designed lighting systems that put light where it is needed and not waste energy through unnecessary illumination of the sky.

When you learn how to build muscle effectively using some of the best strategies and resources in the natural bodybuilding world, which I do my best to share across this site, you'll be armed with more knowledge than the vast majority of other lifters and fitness enthusiasts who never take the time to properly self - educate themselves in this field.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

Our teaching structure: 1: Show examples of instructions and highlight the features 2: Get the children to go outside to think about which natural resources they may want to use.

For the thirty years that she was urging us to plant trees to stop soil erosion, retain water, and store carbon, Wangari was also insisting on the necessity of accountable political structures, which used resources (whether capital, natural, or human) equitably and responsibly.

HF 844, which was signed by Governor Dayton on May 30, prohibits the MN Department of Natural Resources (DNR) from adopting rules that restrict the use of lead ammunition until July 2019.

AND THE NATURAL WORLD Soil Culture Major arts contribution to the UN International Year of Soils 2015 Press Release 28 May 2014 The Soil Culture programme uses the arts to inspire a deeper public understanding of the importance of soil - a resource on which the whole of civilization depends but many take for granted.

Our unexampled wealth ann well being are directly due to the superb natural resources of our country, and to the use which has been made of them by our citizens, both in the present and in the past.

Even renewable natural resources (like trees) are of no ultimate use to us if the time necessary to mature to an economically useful size is longer than the rate at which we deplete them.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

The right use of natural resources, the proper application of technology and the harnessing of the spirit of enterprise are essential elements of an economy which seeks to be modern, inclusive and sustainable.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

The general consensus from the summit was that the use of natural resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas — which provide 80 percent of the world's energy needs — should be avoided.

This analytical report aims to catalyse thinking about the ways in which agriculture — which has a vital role in global food security, development and natural resources use — can and must be fully integrated into national strategies and a consensus - based multilateral framework to address the challenges of climate change.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the earth's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

The publication Naturbruksupproret which is about reclaiming power over the use of land and natural resources, illustrates how important it is to shift the power balance from corporations to local producers in the transition to a just and sustainable society.

For the thirty years that she was urging us to plant trees to stop soil erosion, retain water, and store carbon, Wangari was also insisting on the necessity of accountable political structures, which used resources (whether capital, natural, or human) equitably and responsibly.

«Perhaps most importantly, this project will promote the recovery of our traditional knowledge, which can then be put to use for climate change mitigation and adaptation, defend our territorial collective rights, and the sustainable use of natural resources in our territories,» said COICA Technical Manager Juan Reategui.

For the Environment Group of UNEP2 sustainable consumption and production practices are «the use of services and related products, which respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while minimising the use of natural resources and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardise the needs of future generations.»

According to GFN, if we don't rapidly shift things, by 2030, we'll be using the equivalent of two Earths» worth of natural resources and ecological services, and the pressure put on these natural systems could possibly lead to significant damage to the long - term biocapacity of the planet, which will then negatively affect the amount of resources available for our ever - growing population.

The distinction is clear between inefficient, polluting, extractivism, and relying on technology in which the use of natural resources is optimized (because batteries and wind turbines and so on can be recycled with relatively low loss rates.)

Coal is an abundant natural resource that can be used as a source of energy, as a chemical feedstock from which numerous synthetic compounds (e.g., dyes, oils, waxes, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides) can be derived, and in the production of coke for metallurgical processes.

It is also important to note that this was at a time when the Trans - Atlantic Slave Trade was a major source of economic gain for North American and European powers, who used un-free labour of Africans to amass the wealth that allowed these regions to enjoy otherwise unimaginable luxury and leisure and which would later drive the West's Industrial Revolution (also built on the backs of Blacks, through the use of exploited Africans who, in Africa, extracted the natural resources used to build Western cities, factories and products of the Industrial Revolution).

With technology from Metavine Lab, creator of the Metavine Genesis product, Crowd Machine plans to focus on the development of its dApp building platform via three core facets: the Crowd App Studio, which enables users to build blockchain agnostic applications using natural language and without prior coding knowledge; Crowd Share, a repository of applications and code sections offered as a resource to all developers and Crowd Computer, which creates a distributed computing environment to allow any user to run and test their applications, leveraging the unutilized computing power of other processors in the network.

, which enables users to build blockchain agnostic applications using natural language and without prior coding knowledge; Crowd Share, a repository of applications and code sections offered as a resource to all developers and Crowd Computer, which creates a distributed computing environment to allow any user to run and test their applications, leveraging the unutilized computing power of other processors in the network.

Royalties must be paid to the Crown; 83 however, the Authority can receive royalties for the use of its land or natural resources which has been delegated to the Aboriginal Lands Trust.84 The Bonner Review of the Aboriginal Lands Trust recommended that the Western Australian government review the scheme for the payment of royalties to the Land Trust, and that the Trust pay all mining revenue to the communities affected by the mining.85

For example, much of the output of the Indigenous arts industry, a market activity that generates much tourist interest, is produced on country and uses sustainably harvested natural resource inputs; wildlife habitats on Aboriginal lands (which are the breeding grounds for many migratory species) are maintained; and customary fire regimes assist biodiversity maintenance and can abate atmospheric carbon and smoke.

The study defined the key elements of sustainable development which extend beyond the sustainable use of natural resources and include responsibility for maintaining and enhancing the health and wellbeing of individuals and social structures that are affected by project development.

One aspect of remedying this problem, which is consistent with a human rights based response to climate change, is recognising and utilising traditional environmental knowledge, which has already been identified by natural scientists as an under - used resource for climate impact and adaptation assessment.

In 2009, they reached a consent determination with the state which recognises their rights to hunt, use natural resources, camp and conduct traditional ceremonies recognised over the majority of the area.