deadly companions how microbes shaped our history dec 2007
deadly companions how microbes shaped our history dec 2007
... creatures profoundly influenced our evolution, and by causing epidemics that killed significant numbers of our predecessors they helped to shape our history. Through most of this coexistence our ancestors had ... 1999–2004 Source: L. R. Petersen and E. B. Hayes, ‘Spread of West Nile Fever in the US 1999– 2004’, New England Journal of Medicine 351(2004): 2258. show why they emerged at...
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the emerald planet how plants changed earths history apr 2007
... I show how plants are painting a vivid and revealing picture of the dramas in Earth’s history. The timeframe for this ambitious venture is the last 540 million years, a thick slice of Earth history ... investigation of the past has much to teach us about our present predicament. It oVers us cautionary lessons about the current mismanagement of our planet’s resources we would be wise...
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How to reach Our Customer
... đề Mô hình web users (clients) browse Internet (WWW) WWW servers authors write HTML resources (HTML files) 12 Add to SE 15 Xếp hạng (page ranking) alexan.com 5 Đặt vấn đề Tìm
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How sustainable are our economies_2 pot
... for Nature: http://www. panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/index.cfm). ● Our world is in a state of pervasive ecological decline; our current economies are toxic, destructive on a gargantuan scale, ... [3a] 134 (2002) [6a] 72 (Fig. 1.1) 27 [3] 70 [8] - Decade-long decline in the global fish harvest [4, p. xx]. - Exploitation of living marine resources and loss of habitats are now recogniz...
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How sustainable are our economies_5 pptx
... compared to 1980–1999. Source: IPCC (2007) – Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policymakers. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (See Colour Plates). The review ... 2008–2012 Kyoto target K Nature and biodiversity – protecting a unique resource Forest resources Annual tree fellings J Land resources Land take and fragmentation of large habitats L Emissions o...
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How sustainable are our economies_7 potx
... increasingly on foreign resources (op. cit.). Globalization, together with domestic resource depletion, are significant factors in this outsourcing of natural resource supply (Section 14.1). 6.3.3 ... through the (blue-coloured) black box of the economy as inputs and outputs from and to the environment. The plate also shows ‘translocations’ of unused primary natural resources that had to...
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How sustainable are our economies_8 pdf
... and other resource taxes as a significant source of governmental property income (shown in the primary income distribution accounts) ● The acquisition of tradable emission and resource use permits ... (Landefeld & Howell, 1998). Other (developing) countries show more significant effects on their natural capital. At a time, Costa Rica and Indonesia exploited their natural resources a...
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How sustainable are our economies_12 doc
... of natural resources by TNCs (tragedy of the commons) - Natural resource saving (from least-cost sources) - Spread of wasteful consumption patterns - Rebound effects from resource (cost) saving - ... of the Rio Declaration (United Nations, 1994) caters to the application of the PPP by means of ‘economic instruments’ (a syno- nym for market instruments). The Declaration precedes, however, s...
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How sustainable are our economies_13 pptx
... Structural profiles (Section 10.2.1), input-out- put analyses (Section 10.2.2) and decomposi- tion analyses (Section 10.2.3) show economic growth and growth-based energy use as the principal cause of ... done?’ (continued) 15.3 How Bad Is It? 267 Fig. III.1 SEEA application: Germany, 1990 Note: a Represents depletion and degradation caused by the government, households and NPISHs. Source...
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How sustainable are our economies_15 potx
... compared to 1980–1999. Source: IPCC (2007) – Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policymakers. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Colour Plates 325 Plate 6.2 ... Sweden 1994 Source: Wall (2001b), The use of natural resources in society, plate 30; Copyright Eolss, with permission from Eolss. Colour Plates 323 Plate 5.2 Ecological footprint Source: Copyright...
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