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Impacts of Use and Abuse of Nature in Catalonia with Proposals for Sustainable Management
This paper provides an overview of the last 40 years of use, and in many cases abuse, of the natural resources in Catalonia, a country that is representative of European countries in general, and especially those in the Mediterranean region. It analyses the use of natural resources made by mining, agriculture, livestock, logging, fishing, nature tourism, and energy production and consumption. This use results in an ecological footprint, i.e., the productive land and sea surface required to generate the consumed resources and absorb the resulting waste, which is about seven times the amount available, a very high number but very similar to other European countries.
This overexploitation of natural resources has a huge impact on land and its different forms of cover, air, and water. For the last 25 years, forests and urban areas have each gained almost 3% more of the territory at the expense of agricultural land; those municipalities bordering the sea have increased their number of inhabitants and activity, and although they only occupy 6.7% of the total surface area, they account for 43.3% of the population; air quality has stabilized since the turn of the century, and there has been some improvement in the state of aquatic ecosystems, but still only 36% are in good condition, while the remainder have suffered morphological changes and different forms of nonpoint source pollution; meanwhile the biodiversity of flora and fauna remains still under threat.
Environmental policies do not go far enough so there is a need for revision of the legislation related to environmental impact and the protection of natural areas, flora, and fauna. The promotion of environmental research must be accompanied by environmental education to foster a society which is Land 2021, 10, 144 3 of 53 more knowledgeable, has more control and influence over the decisions that deeply affect it. Indeed, nature conservation goes hand in hand with other social and economic challenges that require a more sustainable vision. Today’s problems with nature derive from the current economic model, which is environmentally unsustainable in that it does not take into account environmental impacts. Lastly, we propose a series of reasonable and feasible priority measures and actions related to each use made of the country’s natural resources, to the impacts they have had, and to their management, in the hope that these can contribute to improving the conservation and management of the environment and biodiversity and move towards sustainability.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Rituximab-induced interleukin-15 reduction associated with clinical improvement in rheumatoid arthritis
More lively rear facade with varied rhythm, and yellow brick banding, detail, end block which would have store on ground floor; Oud was affiliated with the De Stijl group, and began to collaborate with artists on housing projects. Oud was appointed in 1918 municipal architect of Rotterdam, a position he held until 1933, and which allowed him the chance to put his theories about mass housing into practice: he was particularly concerned with strip building. Working with the "strip" row house model in the Hook of Holland, he added curved shop windows at the end of the rows, so emphasizing further the horizontality of the solid balcony parapets; these became widely published images upon the project’s completion in 1927. The balconies divide lower and upper floor apartment units, but Oud treats the facades not as an accumulation of individual dwellings but as an architectural whole in which the street elevation functions as part of the urban fabric. In contrast the rear facade is more lively. White facades, yellow brick, blue doors and railings and red lampposts are a De Stijl influence, although he broke with the movement after this building. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 8/19/2015
Inflamación bronquial, clínica respiratoria y función pulmonar en el síndrome de Sjögren primario
Ús i abús de la natura, impactes i propostes de gestió. El cas de Catalunya com a paradigma
78 pages, 10 figures, 20 tablesFem aquí un balanç dels darrers quaranta anys d'ús, en molts casos abús, dels recursos naturals a Catalunya, un país representatiu dels països europeus, en especial dels mediterranis. [...]Peer reviewe