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deadly companions how microbes shaped our history dec 2007
... creatures
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that killed significant numbers of our predecessors they helped to
shape our history. Through most of this coexistence our ancestors
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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.
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... for Nature: http://www.
panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/index.cfm).
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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...
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...
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...
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)
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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...
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...
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...
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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