"To cut to the chase: Unless the global community takes bold steps now to transition away from a high-carbon economy, we are facing unthinkable harm to our habitat, our infrastructure, our food production, our water supplies, and potentially to life itself".
Our analyses are concerned with minimum patch sizes of suitable habitat; increasing infrastructure density would change suitability.
Most agricultural landscapes are a mosaic of farmers' fields, semi-natural habitats, human infrastructures (e.g. roads) and occasional natural habitats.
Therefore, investing in blue infrastructure habitat restoration is a green opportunity benefiting coastal economies and societies in both the short and the long term.
During the four days of the conference, water advocates spent time in workshops that shared best practices for watershed restoration, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, water and energy conservation, green infrastructure, habitat restoration, safe drinking water and more.
Widespread destruction of NHP habitat, rapidly developing infrastructure, as well as social and economic forces, are changing the geographic landscape and bringing previously separate NHP populations into contact with each other, as well as into contact with humans.
A hazard cannot produce a disaster unless it interacts with human habitat and vulnerable infrastructures (Cannon 2008).
People have caused major impacts on nearshore and intertidal habitats by building infrastructure associated with shipping, recreation, residential and commercial developments.
Recently, there is increased public interest and policy supporting the use of habitats, or natural infrastructure (NI), following decades of increasingly supportive ecological, engineering, and economic evidence.
However, it is not clear how infrastructure affects habitat quality for wildlife adapted to natural disturbances.
