The reasons behind the upsurge ranged from efforts by people to simplify their lives, inhabit a smaller ecological footprint, reduce expenses on home ownership (often with the goal of mortgage-free living), increase their options for location fluidity, or spend more of their disposable income on personal aspirations, including travel or education.
Clough, Y. et al. Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes.
Psychologists typically focus on underlying cognitive mechanisms at the expense of ecological validity, while behavioural ecologists generally examine adaptive function but ignore cognition.
Rather, it represents an ideology on the part of advocates for industrial exploitation of our environment, which subsumes all other principles to economic growth, always at the expense of ecological integrity.
Further, we show that benefits from the current mitigation strategy could be increased by shifting effort to protect more ecological services at the expense of sites that generate primarily human-use value.
To save expense this ecological area was not resurveyed.
That line of thought fails to take into account, however, the external costs of burning coal -- things that are passed through to the general public: medical expenses and ecological renovations.
This dual characteristic is associated with increasing levels of potential conflict between land management practices that promote improved economic performance of these enterprises at the apparent expense of the ecological health of the landscape; and vice versa.
It does so at the expense of other ecological partners through the successful re-acquisition of unicellular behaviors which are believed to be due to the over expression of viral or prokaryotic homologs.
Wen acknowledged mounting criticism of China's development model, saying, "We will show the world with our actions that China will never seek economic growth at the expense of its ecological environment and public health".
Likewise, among its other benefits, nanotechnology could supply new and superior drug delivery systems, but at the expense of health and ecological risks that have yet to be acceptably characterized, according to Moore.
