Sentence examples for indicator for environmental from inspiring English sources

Ecological footprints may therefore serve as a screening indicator for environmental performance.

In this study a single indicator for environmental impact assessment of BIPV is investigated in the Netherlands.

We analyze the trade-off between minimizing makespan, a measure of service level and total energy consumption, an indicator for environmental sustainability of a two-machine sequence dependent permutation flowshop.

Together, the present study showed high sampling efficiency and versatility of this butterfly as an indicator for environmental risk assessment but simultaneously suggested preferable conditions for a field sampling design.

However, our results also show that the usefulness of EF as a stand-alone indicator for environmental impact is limited for product life cycles with relative high mineral consumption and process-specific metal and dust emissions.

The 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is an exploratory effort to construct an index that measures the ability of a nation's economy to achieve sustainable development, with the long term goal of finding a single indicator for environmental sustainability analagous to that of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Beta-AOB community in the Pearl River Estuary showed a mixture of these two genera (Fig.  2a, b) (Jin et al. 2011) while in the SCS, the Nitrosopira-related lineages are dominant indicating beta-AOB community change along the gradient could be a candidate bio-indicator for environmental pollution and source tracking (Kowalchuk and Stephen 2001; Dang et al. 2010; Cao et al. 2011d).

Material flows induced by national economies can be regarded as indirect pressure indicators for environmental degradation.

Amphibians are "wet canaries in the coalmine" as indicators for environmental health.

Our study suggests that the 5%-threshold for unnatural deformation rates should be seen in a critical way until further evaluation if deformation rates of free living amphibians are suitable indicators for environmental pollution.

Next a Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) was done, in which the inventory data are aggregated into indicators for environmental effects, which included resource depletion, land use, climate change, toxicity, acidification, and eutrophication.