Sentence examples for of unsustainable development from inspiring English sources

Examples of unsustainable development are given.

"To me it looks like the Mount Everest of unsustainable development.

growing global populations and the relentless pursuit of unsustainable development is reducing the ability of our ocean to sustain life".

Revisiting the way society defines and measures progress has been identified as one of the key levers in tackling the root causes of unsustainable development.

I'd like the WEF to pledge to leave Davos after 2015 and take the annual conferences to the front lines of unsustainable development, so that the challenges are up close and personal to its delegates.

Nick Reeves, executive director of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, said: "It's another example of unsustainable development that exposes the myth of the 'greenest government ever'.

Coping with risks inherent to unsustainable development paths of small island regions, calls for a more integrated development approach, seeking a low ecological footprint tourist development pattern and a better integration of the tourist sector in the local economic structure for a 'fair' benefit sharing by the local society.

While the standard of living and quality of life of the people has improved in the last 20 years, these improvements have produced negative effects on the terrestrial, coastal and marine environments due to overexploitation of these ecosystems and to unsustainable development practices.

As development of NTFPs increases, there is a danger of unsustainable exploitation.

America's excesses have become the sustenance of China's unsustainable development, and vice versa.

In particular, Nigeria's over-reliance on the petroleum industry for economic growth — which is resulting in the loss of biodiversity and unsustainable development — has had terrible ramifications on living conditions.