adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ecological/environmental disaster (= causing great damage to nature )
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This region is facing an ecological disaster as a result of toxic waste.
ecological footprint
the ecological balance
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Human activity is ruining the ecological balance of our planet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approach
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New ecological approaches sought to help us understand human adaptation to the environment.
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Cowles developed an ecological approach within an academic framework that stressed rigorous pure research.
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We have already seen how pioneers of the ecological approach forged an alliance with specialists from the environmental sciences.
balance
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What of our own ecological balance sheet for the trees?
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In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity, but not to upset the ecological balance .
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The ecological balance in the area could be destroyed.
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The effluents we pour heedlessly into its waters are a threat to its delicate ecological balance .
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They harvest its riches without destroying the ecological balance .
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Factory-farming makes pollution, excessive meat-eating upsets the ecological balance , trapping and hunting can injure habitat, and so on.
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Researchers believe that the ecological balance was upset by the decision to introduce the Nile perch into the lake in 1960.
catastrophe
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Environmental protection Overpopulation in the Majority World has often been blamed for ecological catastrophe .
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If they do this, ecological catastrophe is inevitable.
crisis
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The challenges of hunger, of poverty, of ecological crisis .
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And that has worsened the overall ecological crisis that engine efficiency was originally meant to solve.
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In part, McKenna sees this as a natural reaction to the ecological crisis brought on by the modern era.
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Yet the people targeted by them still live with economic stagnation, political repression, malnutrition and ecological crisis .
damage
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The legacy of the Duvalierist years included endemic corruption and vast ecological damage .
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Some of these carry toxic cargoes and an accident could result in economic as well as ecological damage .
disaster
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But if they do not leave, he said, ecological disaster could be as little as five or 10 years away.
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Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.
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In sum, our nation was headed toward ecological disaster .
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Ben has adapted his zany thriller about ecological disaster and will play the lead.
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Then there was Nordhausen - an industrial centre which was an ecological disaster .
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But it's also a story of ecological disaster and man's excess.
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Tex Slampacker was referring to yet another man-made ecological disaster .
impact
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Clearly, a better understanding of long term ecological impact needs to be encouraged.
issue
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The growing awareness of environmental and ecological issues often coincides with traditional beliefs and practices.
niche
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This in turn has led to rapid evolution to fill the vacant or new ecological niches .
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Some thing or things have to happen for a microbe to escape its previously harmless ecological niche and reach critical mass.
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By contrast, the appeal of the industrial co-operative remains unchallengeable, its ecological niche exclusive to it.
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It is an organism that has taken advantage of a man-made ecological niche , created in buildings' water systems.
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Fewer plants equate to fewer ecological niches and fewer species of animals to fill them.
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Old ecological niches were destroyed in the process and new ones opened up.
problem
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How our sensibilities in regard to social and ecological problems have evolved over the last 40 years.
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Paradoxically the ecological problems deriving from the application of artificial fertilizers are often equally complex and extensive.
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The basic ecological problem of limited resources remains.
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Both are concerned to overcome the ecological problem by using biotechnology.
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The ecological problem forced itself on to our consciousness.
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Creative solutions to our ecological problems ?
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We know that there is an ecological problem .
system
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The second is to gain the knowledge and experience to maintain humans within equilibrium in a closed ecological system .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The government is to provide incentives for people to protect natural ecological assets such as forests.
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There are warnings that the building of the dam will upset the ecological balance of the river basin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As dump opponents had feared, it explicitly sidesteps many of the ecological concerns raised last fall by Park Service scientists.
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But in ecological terms, something catastrophic had occurred.
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Each team works in 3 villages of a chosen ecological and cultural region, with 8 months in each of the villages.
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Ecotopian biotechnology on the contrary would possess an infrastructure based firstly on ecological rationality and secondarily on an economic basis.
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Previous studies have assessed the amenity role of countryside open-spaces using separate ecological , landscape and recreational criteria.
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Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.
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This recognition has had a major impact, not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries.
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We could conceivably escape disaster, but we seem destined, absent real change, for ecological impoverishment.