Unsustainable management practices can also be a contributing factor.

These factors can make unsustainable practices more profitable than sustainable forest management.

This encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

These issues contribute to environmental degradation through the unsustainable practices of utilizing natural resources.

Our water is still pure, but we have seen other seas contaminated by unsustainable practices.

Reforming subsidies that encourage unsustainable water use could encourage water conservation and investments in water saving technologies and practices.

Unsustainable land use practices constitute one of the major threats to sustainable food production on much of the Earth's marginally productive lands.

Unsustainable Development Goals

Rio s Unsustainable Nonsense

This is unsustainable.

Credit expansion must now be followed by a period of contraction, because some of the new credit instruments and practices are unsound and unsustainable.

While deforestation and unsustainable management practices can lead to increased water pollution, sustainable forest management in watersheds can help to protect supplies of freshwater.

Such incentives may also be needed to help with the transition from unsustainable agricultural practices to sustainable methods that will eventually become self supporting.

104. Unsustainable agricultural practices commonly take place where those involved have limited or no property or user rights to the resources they are overexploiting.

Poverty has contributed to unsustainable agricultural practices and environmentally harmful use of our forest resources, which, in turn, have led to drought and desertification.

Absence of control in the overall fishing effort and fishing practices of local fishers and foreign fishing vessels, prompted by the inadequacy of monitoring, control and surveillance, is the root cause of such unsustainable fishing practices.

Sustaining the Unsustainable Eurozone

This is always unsustainable.

But this policy is unsustainable.

The situation is clearly unsustainable.

The lack of mechanisms to compensate forest owners for environmental and social non market services encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

The Declaration calls on States to take practical steps to end unsustainable fishing practices and reinforces the commitment of all nations to manage fisheries in a sustainable fashion.

This is a completely unsustainable pattern.

So this whole industry is unsustainable.

The situation in the ministry is unsustainable.

That model, we have learned, is unsustainable.

However, the pressure on staff is unsustainable.

Equally worrying is Africa's unsustainable debt burden.

Human activities, such as environmentally damaging infrastructure development, modification of river flows, deforestation, unsustainable agricultural practices, over fishing, introduction of invasive alien species and release of pollutants, can upset this delicate balance.

The US budget deficit is enormous and unsustainable.

That pace of employment growth now appears unsustainable.

Asia must leapfrog the unsustainable stage of development.

Unsustainable claims should not be made for it.

Unsustainable development patterns can generate new disaster risks.

What this means is our economy is unsustainable.

(f) The heavy reliance of populations on natural resources for subsistence which, compounded by the effects of demographic trends and factors, a weak technological base and unsustainable production practices, contributes to serious resource degradation

(f) the heavy reliance of populations on natural resources for subsistence which, compounded by the effects of demographic trends and factors, a weak technological base and unsustainable production practices, contributes to serious resource degradation

They understand that their countries fiscal positions are unsustainable.

But China s rulers know that this situation is unsustainable.

Unstable and unsustainable configurations must come to an end.

The first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable.

Environmentalists point out that this production method is unsustainable.

The situation became unsustainable and a civil war began.

What I'm saying is our approach is simply unsustainable.

A year ago, most pundits argued that this was unsustainable.