Three quarters of the world's forests have been cleared, degraded or fragmented due to human activity, while a third have disappeared altogether, according to IUCN.
As a result, creation as much as consumption becomes a deeply personal experience, not one alienated or fragmented like so many of our experiences post Industrial Revolution.
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But in the United States, or elsewhere in the developed world, poverty often goes hand in hand with a fragmented or broken social fabric.
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We do not want this common space to be fragmented or divided.
These players rapidly realised that no single operator or manufacturer's standard could be successful in a fragmented market such as Europe or indeed the world.
Can one even speak of a Greek attitude toward Alexander, or was the Hellenic world too fragmented and diverse to have a consensus view?
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That is still fragmented by the standards of spirits or beer, but the trend is clear.
Right now China's auto industry resembles America's at its highly fragmented start: There are 120 or so Chinese companies that have popped up in recent years.
Wealth management in Europe is fragmented and the market is believe it or not undersaturated.
The Pope's legacy to his successor "may prove to be weaker and more fragmented, rather than 'purified' or modernised", Le Bars writes.
The spot market for agricultural commodities, which is fragmented among 7, 000 local markets or mandis, would also benefit from more centralised electronic exchanges.
Consolidation plays in a fragmented industry--funeral homes, say, or trash haulers--can look like growth engines even when the cash is running out.
ICG's 50 target markets are mostly fragmented, where the risk of domination by one or two firms is slim, and offline supply-chain inefficiencies are large.
It was an attractive e-commerce idea: Customers were affluent, the industry was fragmented and premium brands were still not available at supermarkets or discount chains.
Or must something of the spirit of the old, no matter how fragmented, always haunt the present?
Whether because of national pride, incompatible priorities or the desire to prop up domestic industries, European defence spending is fragmented and duplicative.
Sure, the broad viewer market is a bit more fragmented now, but 1999 was well into the age of 80 or so cable channels.
But it is also local and fragmented, with most auctions taking place either at the factory itself or in an auctioneer's warehouse.
Unlike 3G, which resides in the same band internationally, or 2G, which runs in a handful of bands, LTE is heavily fragmented with more than 32 different recognised bands.
Third, for lead generation to be effective, the lead generation company has to focus on an industry in which it is difficult for consumers to get information, either because it is fragmented, localized, difficult to understand, difficult to gather data or inefficient.
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"To the extent that the extended family has disappeared and everyone is living fragmented lives, the impact of a child who needs lifelong caring or who has lifelong problems is going to be more heavily felt by parents because they don't have big support networks, " she says.
The market for center-based child care is highly fragmented, with 90% of U.S. providers operating 10 or fewer centers, according to the company.
After all, even had Lisbon been ratified, the Union would have remained a fragmented political actor, incapable of decisive action in times of international crisis or of wielding significant military force.
At question is whether the company can muster the talent to either extend its dominant desktop franchise and architecture and put it into the hands of mobile consumers, or redefine its position in the category completely, in what is already a very fragmented market.
Among the likely winners in the fragmented and mostly small-scale fish producing industry are either suppliers to farmers or companies that can obtain economics of scale in ocean fishing.
He also says the hostel market in the U.S. is fragmented by nature, with most properties owned as mom-and-pop operations or nonprofit businesses.
The DIY community is fragmented though, Shampine said, some people will talk about these things on Facebook or Pinterest, but nothing is gluing it all together.
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One reason she highlighted was a fragmented and inefficient industry, whose firms competed not for customers by offering better homes or building them more cheaply but for that scarce British commodity, land with permission to develop.
Thankfully, the Edge's GPU is not only discreet, but also powerful and (thankfully) not fragmented between the two models: an NVIDIA GT640M LE powers the graphics on both, while 4GB or 8GB (respectively) of DDR3 RAM keeps it all running smoothly.
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