But it isn't all about money, especially considering the ecosystem that surrounds Las Vegas, which is already strained with the unnatural influx of people to the desert there every year.
From 1992 onwards, the objectives of the CBD have been gradually incorporated into international environmental legislation, considering the "ecosystem approach" by declaring the inclusion of multiple taxonomic groups into environmental monitoring mandatory (e.g. Republica de Panama 1998; European Parliament 2000; Republica Argentina 2002; Republic of Namibia 2004).
The second image of sustainability is often referred to as "deep ecology", and it considers the ecosystem as a living whole of which humanity is only one part.
When nutrient cycling or the effects of management practices on soils are being considered, the ecosystem may be as large as an entire plant community and soil polypedon system.
The authors of the Millennial Ecosystem Assessment have said that any hope of achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals not just for environmental sustainability but also for poverty eradication and improved health must explicitly consider the ecosystems that people depend on.
Therefore, the different visions and expectations considering the service ecosystem development should be thoroughly discussed (a) in an open environment where all the ecosystem actors are encouraged to take part and (b) in a way that helps the ecosystem actors to co-elevate their conflicting ideas and perceptions, and to integrate them with shared concepts and rules of conduct.
The aim may be ambitious, the mayors say, but it is not such a stretch, considering the large ecosystem of production that is already here — Toyota's North American headquarters, Raytheon, two Ford plants and a General Electric manufacturing plant.
This process conserves marine biodiversity by considering the whole ecosystem a species is in and how different species interact in the marine environment.
Sawgrass growing to a length of 6 feet or more, and broad-leafed marsh plants, are so prominent in this region that they gave the Everglades its nickname "River of Grass", cemented in the public imagination in the title for Marjory Stoneman Douglas's book (1947), which culminated years of her advocacy for considering the Everglades ecosystem as more than a "swamp".
Measures to minimize the human tick interface are less likely to succeed considering the forest ecosystem and the dependence of local villagers on it.
Generally, the purposes of wetland restoration are to re-establish the ecological structure and functions of wetlands, links between biotic and abiotic components and to improve local biodiversity at all levels by considering the entire ecosystem (Gallego Fernández and García Novo 2007; Loomis and others 2000; Ruiz-Jaen and Aide 2005a; Zedler 2000).
