Sentence examples for limits of environmental from inspiring English sources

The authors argue that they wish to illuminate precisely how such places are approaching the limits of environmental sustainability.

The greening of the Los Angeles River is a sobering demonstration of the limits of environmental restoration in an urban landscape.

However, tree height as the best variable for interpreting species diversity may suggest that forest structural complexity plays a more foundational role for species diversity, as tree height is a direct indicator of structural complexity (Franklin et al. 2002), which echoes forest development and succession, and also the limits of environmental conditions and topography.

The amounts of residual metal ions in mordant bath were beyond the acceptable limit of environmental standards.

In the waters off Alaska, drilling has remained largely off limits because of environmental restrictions and lawsuits by conservation organizations.

The fields available in North America are more mature and thus have smaller reservoirs of gas, and larger fields are off limits because of environmental concerns, they said.

IN August, Lloyd Alter came up against the limits of his environmental convictions when he had to replace the leaky roof on his house in Toronto.

Lynne Cherry, a prize-winning environmental writer and illustrator (remember "The Great Kapok Tree"?) who's now also a youth-oriented filmmaker, recently alerted me to a paper exploring the limits of traditional environmental messages given a deeply ingrained human habit of avoiding inconvenient warnings.

I think we're at a point now where we can make that choice, to say maybe we can harness the positives that we've developed with industrial civilisation and develop something new, a post-growth, post-industrial form of civilisation that doesn't reject science and technology but recognises that ultimately you have to be living within the limits of your environmental systems.

Rats were used to check whether regular consumption of black, red, or white tea would have a protective effect similar to the action of green tea on the intestine and liver in the case of exposure to Cd and Pb within the limits of human environmental exposure to these elements.

Elevation is often used as an indirect predictor of temperature, but this limits the applicability of environmental models to other study areas and introduces errors in mountainous terrain where variations in slope, aspect, and radiation can significantly alter the relationship between elevation and temperature.