environmental degradation

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meanings of environmentaland degradation

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environmental
adjective
uk /ɪnˌvaɪ.rəˈmen.təl/ us /ɪnˌvaɪ.rəˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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degradation
noun[U]
uk /ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/
the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed ...
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Examples of environmental degradation

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Majorities tend to be aware of environmentaldegradation costs now and in the future, but only small minorities favor policies based solely on environmental consequences.
With continued environmentaldegradation, the argument continues, agricultural production will decline, food deficits will increase and poverty and starvation will result.
Environmentaldegradation, poverty, and migration, are often hypothesised to be closely connected in a complex web of mutually aggravating cause and effect relationships.
This resulted in soil erosion and general environmentaldegradation.
By the mid-1930s, the perception of environmentaldegradation added momentum to destocking campaigns.
Indeed, rates of resource depletion and levels of environmentaldegradation tend to be higher in developing countries than in the developed world.
On the other hand, an enormous amount of environmentaldegradation in rural areas has little to do with modern farming systems.
It is assumed that economic activities lead to environmentaldegradation and, as a consequence, reduce utility and/or production possibilities.
Besides environmentaldegradation, also indicated as push factors are natural disasters and wars.
On the other hand, migration could also be a result of environmentaldegradation.
The important question to care about now is not to distinguish the beneficiaries from the sufferers of this environmentaldegradation.
Though the top richest and bottom poorest people are both the main origins of environmental degradation, the developing countries often bear the worst environmental consequences.
Poverty appears to be significantly correlated with environmentaldegradation and thus deserves ongoing policy attention.
Furthermore, the hypothesis implies that more trade will cause environmentaldegradation and pollution in developing economies.
Macroeconomic adjustments should stimulate sustainable developments rather than furthering unsustainability; where they do lead to environmentaldegradation, compensatory projects might provide a short-term retrofitting option.
That political instability (at the extreme, civil war) is a direct cause of environmentaldegradation is obvious.
The future prospect of surplus power coupled with subsidized power prices would aggravate the process of environmentaldegradation and the resulting externalities.
These poor people often depend on environmentaldegradation for their livelihoods.
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