ECOLOGICAL


Meaning of ECOLOGICAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an ecological/environmental disaster (= causing great damage to nature )

This region is facing an ecological disaster as a result of toxic waste.

ecological footprint

the ecological balance

Human activity is ruining the ecological balance of our planet.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

approach

New ecological approaches sought to help us understand human adaptation to the environment.

Cowles developed an ecological approach within an academic framework that stressed rigorous pure research.

We have already seen how pioneers of the ecological approach forged an alliance with specialists from the environmental sciences.

balance

What of our own ecological balance sheet for the trees?

In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity, but not to upset the ecological balance .

The ecological balance in the area could be destroyed.

The effluents we pour heedlessly into its waters are a threat to its delicate ecological balance .

They harvest its riches without destroying the ecological balance .

Factory-farming makes pollution, excessive meat-eating upsets the ecological balance , trapping and hunting can injure habitat, and so on.

Researchers believe that the ecological balance was upset by the decision to introduce the Nile perch into the lake in 1960.

catastrophe

Environmental protection Overpopulation in the Majority World has often been blamed for ecological catastrophe .

If they do this, ecological catastrophe is inevitable.

crisis

The challenges of hunger, of poverty, of ecological crisis .

And that has worsened the overall ecological crisis that engine efficiency was originally meant to solve.

In part, McKenna sees this as a natural reaction to the ecological crisis brought on by the modern era.

Yet the people targeted by them still live with economic stagnation, political repression, malnutrition and ecological crisis .

damage

The legacy of the Duvalierist years included endemic corruption and vast ecological damage .

Some of these carry toxic cargoes and an accident could result in economic as well as ecological damage .

disaster

But if they do not leave, he said, ecological disaster could be as little as five or 10 years away.

Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.

In sum, our nation was headed toward ecological disaster .

Ben has adapted his zany thriller about ecological disaster and will play the lead.

Then there was Nordhausen - an industrial centre which was an ecological disaster .

But it's also a story of ecological disaster and man's excess.

Tex Slampacker was referring to yet another man-made ecological disaster .

impact

Clearly, a better understanding of long term ecological impact needs to be encouraged.

issue

The growing awareness of environmental and ecological issues often coincides with traditional beliefs and practices.

niche

This in turn has led to rapid evolution to fill the vacant or new ecological niches .

Some thing or things have to happen for a microbe to escape its previously harmless ecological niche and reach critical mass.

By contrast, the appeal of the industrial co-operative remains unchallengeable, its ecological niche exclusive to it.

It is an organism that has taken advantage of a man-made ecological niche , created in buildings' water systems.

Fewer plants equate to fewer ecological niches and fewer species of animals to fill them.

Old ecological niches were destroyed in the process and new ones opened up.

problem

How our sensibilities in regard to social and ecological problems have evolved over the last 40 years.

Paradoxically the ecological problems deriving from the application of artificial fertilizers are often equally complex and extensive.

The basic ecological problem of limited resources remains.

Both are concerned to overcome the ecological problem by using biotechnology.

The ecological problem forced itself on to our consciousness.

Creative solutions to our ecological problems ?

We know that there is an ecological problem .

system

The second is to gain the knowledge and experience to maintain humans within equilibrium in a closed ecological system .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The government is to provide incentives for people to protect natural ecological assets such as forests.

There are warnings that the building of the dam will upset the ecological balance of the river basin.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As dump opponents had feared, it explicitly sidesteps many of the ecological concerns raised last fall by Park Service scientists.

But in ecological terms, something catastrophic had occurred.

Each team works in 3 villages of a chosen ecological and cultural region, with 8 months in each of the villages.

Ecotopian biotechnology on the contrary would possess an infrastructure based firstly on ecological rationality and secondarily on an economic basis.

Previous studies have assessed the amenity role of countryside open-spaces using separate ecological , landscape and recreational criteria.

Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.

This recognition has had a major impact, not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries.

We could conceivably escape disaster, but we seem destined, absent real change, for ecological impoverishment.

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