Sentence examples for environmental roles from inspiring English sources

The main functions analyzed were the food production and environmental roles of urban agriculture.

Increasingly, their agricultural functions are declining in importance, while cultural and environmental roles are increasing.

While forested areas play critical environmental roles at local and global scales, forest soil maps are typically at low resolution.

Among the degrading watershed resources, fresh water and soil fertility take the lead in posing significant socio-economic, ecological, and environmental roles, especially for developing countries including Ethiopia where traditional agricultural-based economy is dominant.

Although charcoal's density and porosity shape its environmental roles (e.g. controlling its landscape movement and determining the internal pore space available as microbial habitat), the rate of change of these properties in the environment remains largely unknown.

However, despite their critical productive and environmental roles, little is known about tree distribution within pastures or how farmers' management decisions influence the trees themselves and their impact on farm productivity and biodiversity conservation.

DONGTING LAKE, a giant splash of water in central China, plays a critical environmental role that humans only belatedly appreciated.

Another executive, someone in the insurance industry (but not coming from an environmental role), actually mocked the climate denier and laughed in his face.

Yorkshire Water believes this process has helped board members, suppliers, customers and other parties to better understand the company's important environmental role.

It argues that farmers do not simply produce food but have a wider environmental role which deserves compensation from public funds.

However, the watchdog explained that legislation would be needed before it could take on an environmental role and demand such a move.