Sentence examples for of environmental decline from inspiring English sources
This complements two fine books from other publishers, Michael McCarthy's elegiac The Moth Snowstorm (John Murray and Tony Juniperr's What Nature Does for Britain (Profile), which both deal with the bigger picture of environmental decline.
Bruntland said she could understand why people felt disillusioned and why many participants felt powerless, but she said strong action was needed to offset a degree of environmental decline that is pushing at planetary boundaries — with an impact on food security and commodity prices.
Biggs spent 2.5 years analyzing why scientific controversies arise over the causes of environmental decline.
Good governance is widely seen as a prerequisite for effective natural resources management in the context of environmental decline and increasing anthropogenic pressures.
At the core of the Rio+20 agenda is the idea of changing many of the factors driving this pattern of environmental decline while also raising living standards for the world's poor.
This is despite more than 700 international agreements designed to tackle specific aspects of environmental decline, and agreements on alleviating poverty and malnutrition such as the Millennium Development Goals.
From this vantage point, the future looks decidedly bleak, and we may well wonder what use we will have for the social sciences in a world of catastrophic environmental decline and change.
Others have not changed the status quo due to top down decision-making processes usually ignoring the causes of the social and environmental decline of the city and occurring in an institutional context dominated by political patronage.
Deforestation starts a vicious circle of drought and environmental decline.
No political leader wants to see the local impact of economic and environmental decline.
You could argue that Vershinin's optimism sits ill with the current sense of economic and environmental decline.
