ORSS: Organizational Role Stress Scale IRD: Inter-Role Distance S/RC: Self/Role Conflict REC: Role-Expectation Conflict PI: Personal Inadequacy RS: Role Stagnation RA: Role Ambiguity RO: Role Overload RE: Role Erosion RIn: Resource Inadequacy RIs: Role Isolation EDC: Educational Development Centers The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
Together with marketisation and the steady erosion of resources, this way of seeing things sets up an impossible task and leaves a burnt-out workforce struggling to cope.
The erosion of resources has been made worse by the recent declines in the financial markets, which have taken substantial bites out of the investment portfolios of many cultural institutions.
For example, to determine which actions are most cost effective in preventing coastal erosion, both resources and outcomes need to be assessed.
Planning for conservation measures within an area requires assessing the magnitude of soil erosion, which enables resource planners in deciding what is considered acceptable, and the effects of different conservation strategies can be determined.
It has been estimated that intensive agriculture and animal farming alone already contribute almost 20% of worldwide annual greenhouse gas emissions, and are responsible for increasing soil erosion and water resource pollution and depletion.
The debate goes on, but the steady erosion of natural resources caused by a changing climate is now more or less established as one cause amongst many for the social strife and conflict.
Many of the commercial logging endeavours were mismanaged, and the clearcut forests led to lower agricultural yields, erosion, depleted water resources, and increased flooding throughout much of the surrounding areas.
Inefficient energy use is what's bad for the economy, as is the collateral damage in terms of pollution, erosion of water resources, and international security that accompanies old-school fossil fuel and nuclear solutions on the supply side.
Ecosystem services provided by soil include regulation of the atmosphere and climate, primary (including agricultural) production, waste processing, decomposition, nutrient conservation, water purification, erosion control, medical resources, pest control, and disease mitigation.
