1. World problems
  2. Cumulative environmental impacts

Cumulative environmental impacts

  • Combinations of environmental impacts

Nature

Cumulative impacts of human activity on the environment become important when sources of perturbation in the environment are grouped sufficiently closely in space or time such as to exceed the ecosystems natural ability to remove or dissipate the resultant disturbance.

Claim

Among the most troublesome interactions between development and environment are those that involve cumulative impacts.

Broader

Narrower

Aggravates

Aggravated by

Strategy

Value

Accumulation [D]
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Accumulation [C]
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
Content quality
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Language
English
Last update
Dec 3, 2024