Asked about their cars over the past week, many New York representatives offered environmental rationales, some more persuasive than others.
Finally, we should remember that doing nothing about climate change will lead to severe economic disruptions resulting from sea-level rise, drought, extreme weather events, and forest fires, which will generate an economic, environmental, and moral rationale for being aggressive on climate policy.
Using energy optimally in Swedish single-family households has a strong environmental and economic rationale.
The rationale is environmental concern and the necessity to develop EM absorbing materials.
This paper outlines the local environmental conditions and the rationale supporting such a choice.
"It evolved from our work with life cycle thinking and the cradle-to-cradle concept," he recalled, adding that its rationale - reduced environmental impact, design simplicity, faster manufacture and more streamlined material flow, made perfect business sense.
Environment groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Resources Institute (WRI) trumpet the environmental potential — and economic rationale — for putting reforestation at the heart of "natural solutions" to climate change.
Description: This elective course will provide a basic introduction to the rationale for environmental indicators, the strengths and limitations of data that contribute to their development, the methods for their normalization and aggregation into indices, and their use in policy settings.
There are a number of studies analyzing the rationale, economic, environmental and social implications of South-to-North Water Division SNWDD) Project (Ma et al. 2006; Shang et al. 2003; Shao and Wang 2003; Yang and Zehnder 2001).
However, the environmental and socio-economic rationale for this capture by the sector is now being questioned.
