Sentence examples for environmental degradation and resource from inspiring English sources

The World Bank estimates that the cost of environmental degradation and resource depletion is equivalent to 9 percent of China's gross domestic product.

The environmental dimension of sustainability requires the long-term viability of resource use and emphasizes the issue of environmental degradation and resource depletion (Sheth et al. 2011).

But it has equal emphasis on cost efficiency, creating opportunity, reducing risks associated with raw material availability and price volatility, and addressing indirect costs of environmental degradation and resource depletion.

Today it's a very different world, with many progressive companies seeing environmental sustainability as a way to enhance productivity and competitiveness; seeing environmental degradation and resources scarcity as a quantifiable business risk; and beginning to go beyond CSR concerns to recognise that investing in nature's goods and services can bring positive returns.

Extending the lifespan will mean more crowding, more mouths to feed, more environmental degradation, and more resource depletion.

The good body condition for most of the fish indicates less perturbation from environmental degradation and abundance of food resource base, which ensured good body fitness and growth.

Ecological planning therefore is a new paradigm that promotes economic development while reducing environmental degradation and preserving the natural resource in the city.

As a consequence of too much emphasis on income generation without the consideration of the existence of natural systems and environments, cities and/or local authorities face the potential risk of environmental degradation and loss of natural resource values.

Mr. Kaplan's title essay focuses on the deterioration of life in West Africa and South Asia, where pressure on land and resources, environmental degradation and the availability of rootless young men to serve in private armies will lead to a "withering away of central governments, the rise of tribal and regional domains, the unchecked spread of disease and the growing pervasiveness of war".

Many authors, such as Kamla Jain, have claimed that the Jain tradition, with its emphasis on ahimsā and anekāntavāda, is capable of solving religious intolerance, terrorism, wars, the depletion of natural resources, environmental degradation and many other problems.

It was a downer, but the audience found a restorative within the hour in Mr. Feagin's presidential address, a paean to "societal usefulness," chock-full of condemnations of racism, sexism, exploitation, domination, resource inequality, environmental degradation and other sins.