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The phrase "avoidance of negative impacts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing strategies or measures taken to prevent harmful effects in various fields such as environmental science, business, or social policy.
Example: "The company's sustainability initiatives focus on the avoidance of negative impacts on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "prevention of adverse effects" or "mitigation of harmful outcomes".
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Comte et al. (2012), working in the Brazilian Amazon, showed that mulching rather than burning resulted in higher topsoil water holding capacity and total N. Hypothesized additional benefits of fire exclusion include the avoidance of negative impacts of burning on soil biota, a faster fallow and ecosystem carbon stock recovery, and a reduced wildfire risk.
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As mentioned in the introduction, the eco-political goals of the expansion of renewable energy sources lie in the reduction of greenhouse gases within electricity production and the avoidance or mitigation of negative impacts on the environment.
But despite the mounting evidence of negative impacts, reaching a deal will not be easy.
I: What kind of negative impact?
The prevalence of negative impact only indicates the presence of the problems with negative impacts.
Avoidance of negative affect is one motivational factor that explains smoking cessation relapse during cessation attempts.
This includes obligations or duties from external sources as well as avoidance of negative outcomes (Dörnyei, 2009).
Increased success in voluntary avoidance of negative content in individuals with higher working memory capacity has been shown in a previous study of instructed avoidance [37].
Firstly, when spontaneously avoiding negative sentences, there was less recruitment of executive attentional areas when exposed to emotional ambiguous material (where avoidance of negative content occurred) than to neutral material (in which no avoidance was required).
Secondly, working memory capacity had little influence on the rate of the spontaneous avoidance of negative sentences.
The approach of positive outcomes is termed promotion focus, while the avoidance of negative outcomes is called prevention focus.
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