The world's national parks are faced with great challenges in balancing economic activity and environmental preservation.
If elected officials with oversight authority are looking for activity at the Environmental Protection Agency which reduces economic opportunity, environmental justice should be on their list.
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Users then input contextual data tags like time of day, type of activity and the surrounding environmental conditions to allow them to track variables that may affect their focus.
PwC says that it expects to see continuing activity in this realm because environmental pressures will only heighten.
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In the Pacific Ocean alone around 95 percent of leatherbacks have vanished in the past 20 years due to human activity, according to the environmental group Conservation International.
The idea is to relate economic activity, measured in cash terms, to environmental magnitudes measured in physical units.
The solutions have potentially huge cascading effects: Obviously, a more pedestrian-friendly infrastructure leads to fewer cars and less environmental pollution, but it also creates more opportunities for physical activity and socialization and, therefore, healthier and happier populations.
In the past couple of years, dozens of localities, anticipating that the state will eventually allow drilling, have enacted local bans or moratoriums on drilling at the request of residents who have petitioned town boards saying such heavy industrial activity is inconsistent with the community character and that they fear potential health and environmental risks.
Smarr is filling a nature reserve at UC Irvine with sensors to transmit environmental data to San Diego supercomputers, which are modeling weather patterns, seismic activity and behavior of animal populations.
The reason for all this activity is widely believed to be that because sex produces genetic diversity, it protects a species against environmental fluctuations and, in particular, against parasites.
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