The Hmong and Karen are routinely blamed for resource degradation but say their traditions protect nature.
That this is no longer the paradigm — that cities from Luxembourg to Prague, from Madrid to Istanbul, are experiencing accelerating sprawl and its increased automobile traffic, CO2 emissions, energy consumption, land fragmentation, natural resource degradation, watershed damage, farmland decline, and social polarization — has become a major concern across the continent.
The masterstroke of David Bent, the head of Forum's business strategy unit, was to avoid feelings of guilt or obligation around issues such as climate change, resource degradation and species decline and instead build the thinking around positive change and innovation.
But by exporting to poor countries identical versions of the developed world's model for water management, we risk locking the development agenda into a vicious cycle of capital-hungry and energy-intensive solutions, resource degradation and overuse, and an expanding reliance on costly remediation.
Since 1970s Ethiopian government have launched various soil and water conservation programs to curve resource degradation.
It can provide baseline information about the status and trend in water resource degradation.
The study advocates for basin based cooperation that can address ecological alteration and resource degradation.
Organizations began deciding how to act (or not) around issues such as resource degradation, pollution, carbon emissions, and climate change.
Rural households in less-favoured areas (LFAs) face multiple constraints for overcoming chronic poverty and resource degradation.
This work proposes a lifetime design strategy for binary geothermal plants which takes into account heat resource degradation.
The metal contamination of soil may also be a source of landscape change, habitat destruction, soil and water contamination and land resource degradation.
