The socio economic changes cited included rapid population growth, high food demand, and land and ecological degradation.

And you can't really have a proper model for development if at the same time you're destroying or allowing the degradation of the very asset, the most important asset, which is your development asset, that is ecological infrastructure.

Environmental and ecological aspects

Ecological Youth of Angola

So no ecological collapse here.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

Ecological indicators are mentioned as still undeveloped.

ROSELT Long term Ecological Monitoring Observatories Network

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage

It is called telephony and electricity without ecological interference.

Monitoring should relate to both ecological and economic parameters.

FIELD Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation

But the ecological revolution has less need for new institutions.

It is time to replace GM technology with ecological farming.

Both candidates want jobs to be created in ecological services.

Bacterioplankton occupy a range of ecological niches in aquatic systems.

Geographic, hydrographic, hydrological, hydrogeological, climatic, ecological, and other natural features

Another important theme of this Meeting is ensuring ecological sustainability.

Ukraine had also elaborated a national programme for ecological education.

Certain projects currently in progress in countries or pilot areas are endeavouring to produce vulnerability maps of degradation or the risk of land degradation.

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

... ecological management must be linked to poverty alleviation and wealth creation.

It is time for policies making ecological integrity supplant environmental devastation.

The environmental degradation is obvious even to casual observers.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

If the world economy s current growth patterns continue, we face ecological disaster.

The ecological damage that the world is facing is no less important.

In Indonesia, the rampant smuggling of illegal timber caused massive ecological destruction.

Meanwhile, the economic consequences of environmental degradation can be severe.

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

We could drive it back to its ecological fundamentals to the hills, to the streams, to the basic hydrology and shoreline, to the beaches, the basic aspects that make the ecological landscape.

The objectives of ROSELT OSS are to enhance knowledge about the causes and consequences of desertification, to monitor the long term evolution of ecological systems and resources, to understand the functioning of these systems and how this interacts with the human populations, and to look for the links between climate and the human causes of land degradation.

Progress in developing and using benchmarks and indicators, particularly ecological indicators, remains modest.

Desertification (land degradation caused by aridity) and overgrazing are also problems.

(g) Perverse subsidies and their impact on deforestation and forest degradation

We also have to confront the serious degradation of the environment.

Industries are responsible for the pollution, which poses a serious threat to ecological balance.

Forests carry out important ecological functions which stabilize soils and help protect water resources.

This progress has come at a high price in human and ecological terms, however.

The Panel does not consider lost catch as a reasonable measure for ecological loss.

In some areas those activities are damaging the ecological systems of the Caribbean Sea.

We run a project called the Bronx Ecological Stewardship Training, which provides job training in the fields of ecological restorations, so that folks from our community have the skills to compete for these well paying jobs.

Reintroduction of indigenous vegetation will help with the degradation of the land.

Disasters may be both a consequence and a cause of environmental degradation.