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	Combating Environmental Degradation
		In the final analysis, the environmental crisis affects everyone on the planet, but the degree to which the inhabitants of different parts of the world contribute to this crisis depends on the level of their economic development and their consumption patterns.
		The poor may be both agents and victims of environmental degradation, especially in marginal areas, where the resource base is ill-suited to agriculture.
		Environmental degradation implies further burdens and responsibilities which are not compensated for by increased decision-making power.
	www.ifad.org /events/past/hunger/envir.html (3911 words)

	Environmental disaster: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The environmental protection agency (epa) is an agency of the united states federal government charged with protecting human health and with safeguarding the...
		Cercla is an acronym for the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act, 42 u.s.c....
		Environmental movement is a term often used for any social or political movement directed towards the preservation, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/En/Environmental_disaster.htm (1503 words)

	WG 5 DRAFT 1: Resources and Environmental Degradation as Sources of Conflict - 50th Annual Conference
		Environmental degradation can undermine the sustainability of societies in the long term; to ecologists the loss of productivity in areas where civilizations once flourished is painfully apparent.
		Environmental scarcity is caused by the degradation and depletion of renewable resources, the increased demand for these resources, and/or their unequal distribution.
		Environmental problems may be the first genuinely global test case in which the stakes are high enough and the logic of cooperation strong enough to promote the sort of positive, cooperative spillover envisioned by global-governance advocates since the end of World War II.
	www.pugwash.org /reports/pac/pac256/WG5draft.htm (9309 words)

	ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
		Apart from degradation and of loss of farms, oil spills have led to extensive deforestation with no adequate replanting practices; this in effect has shortened fallow periods, compounded land use degradation and led to a loss of soil fertility and consequently erosion of the topsoil.
		This has meant greater environmental degradation as a result of the intensive exploitation of the few remaining fertile land in the region by the residents.
		All the problems associated with oil and gas exploration ranging from environmental degradation, loss of farmland and marine life are solely borne by the rural dwellers.
	www.isokonorthamerica.org /mefolepaper.html (3886 words)

	Environmental Degradation
		When the environment becomes less valuable or damaged, environmental degradation is said to occur.
		Environmental degradation can occur naturally, or through human processes.
		The largest areas of concern at present are the loss of rain forests, air pollution and smog, ozone depletion, and the destruction of the marine environment.
	library.thinkquest.org /26026/Science/environmental_degradation.html (530 words)

	Deforestation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deforestation can be the result of the deliberate removal of forest cover for agriculture or urban development, or it can be an unintentional consequence of uncontrolled grazing (which can prevent the natural regeneration of young trees).
		Deforestation is the loss or continual degradation of forest habitat due to either natural or human related causes.
		Deforestation can be defined broadly to include not only conversion to non-forest, but also degradation that reduces forest quality - the density and structure of the trees, the ecological services supplied, the biomass of plants and animals, the species diversity and the genetic diversity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deforestation (2939 words)

	WTO \| Environment - 99study
		Environmental degradation occurs because producers and consumers are not always required to pay for the costs of their actions;
		Environmental degradation is sometimes accentuated by policy failures, including subsidies to polluting and resource-degrading activities — such as subsidies to agriculture, fishing and energy;
		In the end, the environmental Kuznets curve may not have a “natural” turning point — it will turn whenever political conditions are ripe for delivering the necessary policies to address environmental degradation effectively, including through transfers of resources and technologies to allow developing countries to modernize their production.
	www.wto.org /english/tratop_e/envir_e/stud99_e.htm (3584 words)

	THE MAQUILADORA INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1995 the Mexican Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection asserted that the final disposition of 25 percent, or 13,000 tons, of hazardous and toxic wastes produced by the maquiladora industry were not accounted for.
		And, in that vein, they evidence less zeal in their opposition to environmental degradation that may be connected with the assembly plants.
		Environmental, labor, and social action groups concerned with the problem of the maquiladora program's ruination of the Borderlands' environment obviously define a much purer position than national or local governments.
	www.natlaw.com /pubs/williams.htm (5640 words)

	IHDP Update02-04 DEGRADATION NARRATIVES
		Ever since the colonial era, “degradation narratives” have exercised considerable influence on understandings of the relationship between population, poverty and environmental degradation in the Global South.
		However, degradation narratives continue to circulate in population, environment and security circles, and it is important to identify and challenge their basic assumptions.
		Degradation narratives are one of the main obstacles standing in the way of greater understanding and communication between northern and southern environmental scholars and advocates.
	www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de /html/publications/update/update02_04/IHDPUpdate02_04_Hartmann.htm (1672 words)

	Environmental Protection Efforts in a Developing Country: The Case of Guyana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Environmental degradation and constraints to environmental protection prevailed not only in the colonial period but were also exacerbated when Guyana attained its independence from Great Britain in 1966, after 152 years of colonial rule.
		Although environmental concerns were at the forefront of opinion polls at the time (Baden and Stroup, 1990), development and state policy planners ignored, deliberately or otherwise, the sustainability debate of the 1970s and 1980s, and they neither fostered nor promoted environmental initiatives.
		Since there are positive correlations between the debt burden and environmental degradation in the Third World (George, 1988; 1992), the Government of Guyana is faced with the challenging task of promoting and sustaining environmental protection measures.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj13/lakhan1.html (4527 words)

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		The Summitville mine was the scene of a major environmental disaster in the 1990s when the hastily installed liner of a cyanide-laced tailing pond began leaking heavily.
		However, the island is an environmental disaster areadisaster area as a result of decades of phosphate mining, and the potential for large-scale planting is minimal.
		The cause is a vast amount of pollution that is threatening to cause an environmental disasterenvironmental disaster.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Environmental-disaster.htm (1368 words)

	Afghanistan: Environmental degradation in a fragile ecological setting Int. J Sustain. Dev. World Ecol. 8 (2001) 279-289 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While environmental concerns and sustainable development are on the agenda of the international community, including many developing countries, the war-ravaged country of Afghanistan is facing a devastating environmental crisis, unprecedented in its history.
		An environmentally disastrous practice in Afghanistan has been the building of institutions, and factories in or close to residential areas in cities and towns, in sensitive and fragile ecosystems, in reservoir catchment areas, in scenic spots, historical sites, and areas of beautiful landscape that should be designated as nature reserves.
		An environmental monitoring agency with stations at national level needs to be put in place to record the levels of pollutants in the atmosphere and to check the quality of water and land.
	www.mindfully.org /Heritage/Afghanistan-Environmental-Degradation-Saba.htm (6158 words)

	Chapter 6: Addressing Environmental Degradation
		The poor environmental protection policies that have been in effect are evident in the quality of land, water, air, and natural habitats that exist on the island today.
		Environmental Criminal Investigations Training is designed for police officers and teaches how to recognize environmental crime and how to provide an initial response, while ensuring the personal safety of all involved.
		Among the documented environmental impacts from hotels and the roads which service them are: lagoons cut off from the sea by roads; polluted coral reefs, beaches, and waters; habitat destruction; disruption of critical wildlife behavioral patterns; propagation of introduced species; filled wetlands, with negative impact on fisheries; beach, and sand dune erosion, etc.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/2004/32253pf.htm (14930 words)

	Madagascar - Environmental Degradation
		on the importance of environmental degradation in the African crisis.
		Environmental degradation will be reversed and sustainable use of natural resources promoted through support of the
		Environmental degradation primarily affects the poor, both in rural and...
	www.wildmadagascar.org /topics/Environmental_Degradation.html (986 words)

	Can the Internet Help Slow Global Environmental Decline?
		Environmentally the Internet can, and indeed is already, being used as a research and management tool that can help human kind identify when we are near or have passed nature's limits.
		Enforcing environmental regulations has always strained the capacity of regulatory agencies, but by making the regulations available on the Internet, as well as violations, agencies have found their corps of enforcement agents expanded though the collaboration of environmental and community interest groups.
		The problem is especially acute in regards to global ecosystems because the environmental damages are spread among all members of the planet, while costs of reversing the damage are concentrated among a smaller group of polluting industries or countries.
	firstmonday.org /issues/issue6_11/unruh (5278 words)

	Environment
		The full consequences of such large-scale environmental degradation are impossible to judge, but what we do know is that the impacts on humanity will be most devastating in the developing world.
		Agriculture in general is one of the most resource-intensive and environmentally damaging aspects of industrialised living.
		Environmentally conscious consumers are concerned not only with food miles, over-packaging, pesticide use and GM foods, but also question the environmental sustainability of modern animal husbandry.
	www.vegansociety.com /html/environment (446 words)

	Focus: Environmental degradation is contributing to health threats worldwide
		Environmental Change and Human Health, a special section of World Resources 1998-99, describes how preventable illnesses and premature deaths are still occurring in shockingly large numbers, even though vast improvements in human health globally over the past decades mean millions of people are living longer, healthier lives than ever before.
		While most of these statistics assess conditions in the developing world, environmental threats to health in the industrialized nations are also of concern.
		Because many of the environmental conditions that impact health are avoidable, prevention of health problems through environmental management, rather than simply treating diseases and ailments after they have occurred, is the salient message of the environment and health section of World Resources 1998-99.
	www.ourplanet.com /imgversn/95/roberts.html (776 words)

	Global warming and other environmental concerns
		Air quality is degrading and contributing to the early deaths of tens of thousands of North Americans.
		A case can be made that leaving a highly polluted world behind for future generations is a profoundly immoral act, to say nothing of the massive loss of life caused by environmental degradation.
		Degradation of forests, water and soil; resource consumption; waste problems.
	www.religioustolerance.org /environment.htm (620 words)

	Market Failures Leading to Environmental Degradation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Essentially the economic causes (as opposed to other causes) of environmental degradation are pricing and poverty (Munasinghe 1993 p17).
		Environmental economics is making an effort to incorporate non-pecuniary costs into the price of outputs through shadow pricing or economic opportunity costs and other valuational techniques (Munasinghe, 1993 pp16-19; Pearce, Markandya and Barbier, 1989 p154).
		While insufficient information can lead to a commodity being overpriced, it is when it leads to underpricing that environmental degradation is most likely to occur.
	www.iisd.org /greenbud/market.htm (481 words)

	The state of Planet Earth
		Global warming, though to be resulting from increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel use and from deforestation, may have the potential to alter climate on a massive scale.
		The greatest peril is to become trapped in spirals of environmental decline, poverty, and unrest, leading to worldwide social, economic and environmental collapse from which we may be unable to recover.
		In the private sector, environmental advances by several major transnational corporations are not reflected widely in the practices of small- and medium-sized companies that form the backbone of economies in many countries.
	www.ecopsych.com /zombie5.html (2398 words)

	Environmental degradation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Environmental degradation refers to the diminishment of a local ecosystem or the biosphere as a whole due to human activity.
		Environmental degradation occurs when nature's resources (such as trees, habitat, earth, water, air) are being consumed faster than nature can replenish them.
		This page was last modified 14:06, 18 May 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Environmental_degradation (78 words)

	GIS and Spatial Decision Support System for Environmental Degradation Monitoring
		The consequences are a significant damage to the original ecosystem with the consequent degradation of the riparian vegetation and widespread erosion, with river siltation and degradation of the natural resources, risking the sustainability of anthropic activities in the Pantanal lowlands of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
		On the other hand, occupation during the last 30 years of the Cerrados in the highlands amplified degradation of soil and water resources, to a point that it is considered the principal menace to the Pantanal’s integrity.
		The result of this was a comprehensive explanation of the causes of the land degradation problem in the Upper Taquari watershed, characterized by the various types of erosion present in the region (Figure 2) and used to design the solutions to the problem in a SSD context.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /proceedings/gisdeco/sessions/f9_simoespf.htm (1950 words)

	Environmental Degradation and Evangelicals (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ISA advisors were among those who issued the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship in April 2000 to clarify the relationship between man and his environment.
		While some environmental concerns are well founded and serious, others are without foundation or greatly exaggerated.
		The poor, who are most often citizens of developing nations, are often forced to suffer in poverty with its attendant high rates of malnutrition, disease, and mortality; as a consequence, they are often the most injured by such misguided, though well-intended, policies.
	www.theconservativevoice.com /articles/article.html?id=10041 (1087 words)

	NEW STUDY REVEALS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE THREATENS FUTURE WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		World food production is at risk from farming methods that have degraded soils, parched aquifers, polluted waters, and caused the loss of animal and plant species, according to a new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Resources Institute (WRI).
		Soil degradation, including nutrient depletion, erosion, and salinization, is widespread.
		The MEA is expected to fill in the data gaps identified by these reports through the participation of hundreds of the world's leading scientists who will be mobilized for this $20 million, four-year effort.
	www.worldbank.org /html/cgiar/press/news0102.htm (1262 words)

	Environmental Degradation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As it stands now, the land is degraded, suffering from years of environmental mismanagement and neglect that has only worsened in the past 34 years of Israeli occupation.
		Palestine is a classic example of the organic relationship that exists between environmental degradation and political conflicts.
		This paper will try to address the environmental problems in Palestine defined here as the West Bank and Gaza, including East Jerusalem, out of a conviction that sustainable peace is only possible through just and equitable utilization and management of natural resources between Israelis and Palestinians.
	www.arij.org /pub/pubarabic/envdegredation (2175 words)

	Environmental Journalism Now
		Then I started reading a a new report from Environmental Defense, titled "Sustaining America's Fisheries." In line with the National Geographic stories, it notes that worldwide, as many as 90 percent of large predatory fish species are gone.
		Environmentalists who claim that humans are responsible for environmental degradation are advancing a “one-sided and unbiblical view of human nature,” states a joint paper of the Institute on Religion & Democracy and the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty.
		On the other side of the holy war, those who see the quasi-religion of environmentalism as a direct threat to their own spiritual beliefs are girded for battle.
	cejnewsviews.blogspot.com (3733 words)

	Handbook of Environmental Degradation of Materials
		This handbook outlines these costs, but more importantly, explains how to measure, analyze, and prevent environmental degradation for a wide range of industrial materials.
		Experts from around the world share how a diverse set of industries cope with the degradation of metals, polymers, reinforced concrete, clothing, and wood under adverse environmental conditions such as weather, seawater, and fire.
		Case studies show how organizations from small consulting firms to corporate giants design and manufacture products that are more resistant to environmental effects.
	www.knovel.com /knovel2/Toc.jsp?BookID=1253 (107 words)

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