In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment, the natural environment or the built environment.

Sustaining our environment and natural resources base for development

In 1993 a further hall was opened, the Natural History Hall, focusing on the natural environment of Bahrain.

Vice Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Ministry of Sustainable Development)

It is the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds a species population.

Threats to our natural environment are therefore threats to our very existence.

Cooking made it possible that mutations, natural selections, our environment, could develop us.

For many people, sustainability is associated with finite natural resources and the environment.

Maintenance and improvement of the environment and the natural resources of the countryside

Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment etc2.2.1. At the central government level

It is a broad field of study that includes also the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them.

Conversely, the poor are the first to suffer from deterioration of their natural environment.

This programme is designed to take account of all components of the natural environment.

Our 70 trillion per year global economy is putting unprecedented pressures on the natural environment.

Another rationale for buying organic is that it is supposedly better for the natural environment.

Improvements in natural science enhance, rather than impede, our ability to shape our physical environment.

(iv) the costs of reasonable measures of reinstatement of the property, or environment, including natural resources

But nowhere is this clearer than in the interaction between economic processes and the natural environment.

This has put greater pressure on the natural environment and increased the risks of land degradation.

Social and economic development depends on a limited range of natural resources and a healthy environment.

In its Sector Plan, the Ministry of the Environment, privileges the involvement of rural communities, particularly women, in the management of the environment and natural resources.

So in the end, it's not the most natural environment, but they're able to play real music.

Cooperation will be needed in many areas. One is the management of natural resources and the environment.

Recently, the system of environmental indicators of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) was established.

The objective of the treaty is to protect the natural environment of the Alps while promoting its development.

Parties recognized that poverty leads to high dependence on natural resources and the environment resulting in their overexploitation.

The Helen Doron method provided an English speaking environment that successfully mimicked the natural process of mother tongue learning.

It is the natural method of birth for all mammals except monotremes, which lay eggs into the external environment.

Environmental philosophy is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the natural environment and humans' place within it.

Goal 7 Environment Sustainability Promoting environmental sustainability through education and good management of natural resources (including soil and water).

The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions.

In so doing, they are passing on to future generations the costs of today's unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and the excessive pressures on the absorptive capacity of the natural environment.

Unsustainable processes of development had exerted tremendous pressure on natural resources and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, especially in the industrialized countries, were threatening the fragility of the natural environment.

Well, it depends on what one thinks the alternative is. Slow global growth would benefit natural resources and the environment.

It is crumbling because of the devastating effects of successive natural disasters and the ecological damage to its deteriorated environment.

That is why its natural environment is democracy, since democracy promotes equality of civil, political and social rights for individuals.

The meeting was declared officially open by Ingeniero Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico.

Expressing its concern for the deterioration of the world environment including increasing environmental pollution and the depletion of natural resources

Earth science Understanding of natural and human induced changes on the global environment is the main objective of NASA's Earth science.

It was only through dialogue and bilateral and regional negotiations that the issues of natural resources and the environment could be settled.

Their activities are mainly concerned with the recovery of degraded land, the rehabilitation of the natural environment, and water and soil conservation.

These are magnified in a globalized, liberalized and competitive international economic environment and with the increasing incidence of more devastating natural disasters.

For example, terrain types, bodies of water, natural units (consisting of all plants, animals and microorganisms in an area functioning together with all of the nonliving physical factors of the environment) are natural geographical features.

Taken together, these provisions embody a general obligation to protect the natural environment against widespread, long term and severe environmental damage the prohibition of methods and means of warfare which are intended, or may be expected, to cause such damage and the prohibition of attacks against the natural environment by way of reprisals.

In 1981, Kenya banned the export of the pancake tortoise unless given written permission by the Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources.