Sentence examples for Ecological returns from inspiring English sources

Policies to protect coastal resources may lead to greater social, economic, and ecological returns when they consider potential co-benefits and trade-offs on land.

Mr Isted added that the trees were reaching an age to provide "the maximum environmental and ecological returns to the community; benefits and services which may be considered priceless in terms of climate mitigation alone".

An ecological return-on-investment (EROI) metric was developed to compare perennial grass cover and tree cover per unit area cost of each active treatment.

Price-based MBIs are considered attractive to landholders, who are provided with financial payments for the delivery of defined ecological outcomes on their land, and for policy-making, where ecological return on investment can be measured quantitatively.

Their presence in restoration sites raised the frightening possibility that ecological restoration, rather than returning disturbed sites to their natural beauty, may actually be introducing deadly plant pathogens, such as those related to Sudden Oak Death, into the wild.

Doing ecological restoration in New York requires not just a return to some vestigial state, but a huge leap back to a time and place that many people say has been irretrievably lost under the tumult of history.

Compensation paid for ecological restoration cannot cover the loss to farmers and headsmen of returning farmland to forest and, as a result, the farmers return and deforest and re-cultivates the land.

Ecologists hypothesize that, after a catastrophic event, human communities and ecological communities return at the same rate.

Ecological stream restoration is the return of a stream ecosystem's structure and function to a state that is more reflective of its predisturbance form.

This whole bias of giving up some kind of financial return to make an ecological or social return is just not true.

The New Yorker, October 3, 1970 P. 27 This fair land was settled in the odor of original sin, by Puritans grimly determined to forge a paradise and ecological self-consciousness returns us to the bracing sense of unavoidable guilt.