One ecological driver of bat virus transmission is development in the flying foxes' natural habitat.
Sustainable development is not a subset of development; it is development (in a modern world of resource limits).
We have first-hand experience of the maxim that conflict is "development in reverse", and know that a return to conflict can set back progress by decades.
Geoff D. Porter, a Middle East and Africa analyst for the Eurasia Group, which advises corporations on political risks, said, "The stick is tough immigration laws, the carrot is development in the countries where the immigrants come from".
There are many causes — the decline of the auto industry and white flight among them — but the one that Professor Galster returns to time and again is development in the suburbs.
"The greatest threat to our water these days is development in the wrong places, and the groundwater standards are one of the building blocks of protection -- and they are full of holes," said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation.
