-
Economic activities depend on access to ecological resources including water, biomass and fossil fuels.
UNESCO: Resource limits and their implications for economic policy | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
-
Virtually every economic activity and life itself depends on access to ecological resources and services.
UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE
-
Wealth and Footprint size: The higher the income of a country, the greater was its demand for ecological resources and services (and the higher its per capita consumption).
UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE
-
Demand outstrips supply: In less the 50 years, the Mediterranean region nearly tripled its demands for ecological resources and services, and increased its ecological deficit by 230 percent.
UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE
-
What if our decline is due to the very impact of this kind of short term short sighted thinking on the effective management of the social and ecological resources that will increase long term prosperity?
FORBES: Connect
-
The report, Nurturing Nature highlighted the importance of the natural environment to economic activity - that ecological processes deliver the resources needed for economic progress - but 11 of 15 of the most important UK habitats are declining.
BBC: Jobs or birds: Turning Rio rhetoric into reality
-
"These results support the conclusion that bighead and silver carp have not yet become established in Minnesota, " said Steve Hirsch, director of the Ecological and Waters Division for the Department of Natural Resources.
WSJ: Study finds Asian carp numbers low in Minnesota
-
On Day 1 in Burlington, considered by many the heart of green business, John Erickson, professor of ecological economics at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, clearly touched a nerve.
FORBES: Are We All Just Homogeneous Globules of Desire?
-
Still, this emphasis on ecological constraints means that great emphasis is placed upon our limiting our abstraction of resources from nature.
FORBES: A Steady State Economy
-
Economic growth from simply using more resources though will, at some point, bump up against those ecological barriers to growth that we keep hearing about.
FORBES: The Solution to Climate Change: Chasing Rainbows Now Available on Kindle