They concentrate great attention on biodiversity; soil quality; natural resources; climate change; air and water quality; and emission reductions in production and logistics activities.
We don't want a world where markets for carbon mean land is afforested at the expense of biodiversity, water quality and beauty.
A group called the Northwest Santa Tecla Ecological Defence Committee has filed a complaint with the environmental secretariat at the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Act (DR-Cafta) alleging that the Villa Veranda development could threaten local water supplies, biodiversity and quality of life for communities nearby.
Such aspects include, e.g. effects on biodiversity, landscape, quality of life, social and inter-generational equity or gender issues.
Stephens and Grist (2014) reviewed the market potential for delivering joint wood production and ecosystem services from planted forests in Australia, including biodiversity, water quality and carbon sequestration.
Qualitative information about the relationships between natural woodland and biodiversity, water quality, fish populations and flooding is available from scientific references but few of these provide quantitative data or estimates, especially the marginal quantitative estimates ideally needed for economic analyses.
For most taxa, changes in wildlife habitat due to land use changes in the Biodiversity, Water Quality, and Past scenarios were similar, resulting in greater habitat than either the present landscape or the Production scenario.
In accepting the idea that sustainability includes a multifunctional view of forests, there is a need to find ways of integrating classical forest ecosystem research with biodiversity, water quality and socio-economics.
The global issues facing the 21st century (e.g., food security, climate change, biodiversity, water quality, tropical deforestation, and poverty) can be addressed through soil and landscape restoration, which are essential for humans to live in symbiotic harmony with nature.
