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The book contains a collection of articles dealing with how the extraction of mineral resources can be considered in environmental analyses such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The consumption of resources, e.g., metals, is increasing strongly worldwide. This is associated with more energy use; environmental pollution; and social, economic, and political consequences. An increase is also expected for the coming decades. At the same time, modern products and technologies, even in the field of renewable energies, require a large number of critical raw materials. A crucial question here is the exhaustibility of natural resources. What is the relevance of resource depletion today? Must a geological shortage of metals be expected in the foreseeable future? How could such a thing be considered in the LCA of products and weighed against other environmental aspects? The articles in question have been written over the past three years by leading experts in both geology and environmental sciences and show the breadth of the controversial discussion.
Mining --- Environmental Impact --- Life Cycle Assessment --- Scarcity --- Resource depletion --- Mineral resources production
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Pericopsis --- Regeneration. --- Regeneration --- forest stands --- forest ecology --- resource management --- Resource depletion --- History --- Assamela --- Cameroon
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Natural resources --- Resource depletion --- resource management --- Economic geography --- Sociology --- socioeconomic organization --- Rwanda --- Burundi
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ecology --- ecology --- Natural resources --- Natural resources --- Resource depletion --- Resource depletion --- Environmental impact --- Environmental impact --- Resource conservation --- Resource conservation --- Environmental policies --- Environmental policies --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable development --- Reseau zone aride --- world --- world --- Reseau zone aride
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Water resources --- Forest resources --- resource management --- Resource allocation --- Resource depletion --- Environmental policies --- Sustainability --- Democratic Republic of the Congo --- Ressources en eau --- Forêts
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ECO Ecology --- density --- dispersion --- distribution --- dormancy --- dynamics --- ecology --- evolution --- germination --- growth --- handbooks --- population --- predation --- resource depletion --- seed banks --- 581.524 --- Populations, Plant --- Associational ecology. Synecology --- 581.524 Associational ecology. Synecology --- Plant populations --- Population biology --- 574.3 --- Biology --- Ecology --- Plant ecology --- 574.3 Populations and environment. Population dynamics --- Populations and environment. Population dynamics --- Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Plant populations. --- Population biology.
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An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future.An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.
Groundwater --- Water-supply --- Social aspects --- Great Plains. --- Heartland. --- Julene Bair. --- Ogallala Blue. --- Sarah Smarsh. --- The Ogallala Road. --- William Ashworth. --- belonging. --- conservative America. --- conservative values. --- environment. --- environmental crisis. --- ethnography. --- exclusion. --- family histories. --- farm families. --- global warming. --- groundwater depletion. --- memoir. --- memory. --- partisanship. --- polarization. --- resource depletion. --- rural life. --- sustainability. --- the best memoirs. --- water crisis. --- water wars. --- High Plains Aquifer. --- High Plains (U.S.) --- Social conditions.
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Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and-following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment-implement and enforce actual international policies.
Environmental policy --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- International cooperation --- History --- Government policy --- History. --- 20th century. --- climate change. --- comprehensive exploration of environmental activities. --- debates about environmental degradation. --- develop binding intergovernmental commitments. --- habitat management. --- historical. --- implement and enforce international policies. --- pollution. --- resource depletion.
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500 Milieu --- Sustainable development --- Sustainability --- Macroeconomic analysis --- economic crises --- Economic growth --- Economic policies --- Environmental impact --- Resource depletion --- resource management --- Global environmental change. --- Environmental policy. --- Environmental protection. --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Global environmental change --- Environmental policy --- Environmental protection --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy --- Climatic changes
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Eloquent, urgent, and inspiring, The Constant Fire tackles the acrimonious debate between science and religion, taking us beyond its stagnant parameters into the wider domain of human spiritual experience. From a Neolithic archaeological site in Ireland to modern theories of star formation, Adam Frank traverses a wide terrain, broadening our sights and allowing us to imagine an alternative perspective. Drawing from his experience as a practicing astrophysicist and from the writings of the great scholars of religion, philosophy, and mythology, Frank locates the connective tissue linking science and religion-their commonality as sacred pursuits-and finds their shared aspiration in pursuit of "the True and the Real." Taking us from the burning of Giordano Bruno in 1600 to Einstein and on to today's pressing issues of global warming and resource depletion, The Constant Fire shows us how to move beyond this stale debate into a more profound experience of the world as sacred-a world that embraces science without renouncing human spirituality.
Religion and science --- Bible and science --- Science and the Bible --- Science --- History. --- History of controversy --- astrophysics. --- big bang. --- climate change. --- controversial debate. --- cultural debate. --- einstein. --- ethos. --- evolution. --- flood myths. --- giordano bruno. --- global warming. --- human spiritual existence. --- human spirituality. --- humanity. --- ireland. --- microscopes. --- modern world. --- multiverse. --- mythology. --- mythos. --- neolithic archaeological site. --- philosophy. --- political debate. --- religion. --- religious experience. --- resource depletion. --- sacred narratives. --- sacred pursuits. --- science and religion. --- science. --- scientists. --- spiritual. --- spirituality. --- star formation. --- telescopes.
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