environmental risk (Q949)
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Environmental risk refers to adverse impacts on terrestrial, marine, and cryospheric systems from climate-related hazards, exposure, and vulnerability, and the risks related to air-pollution.
- environmental risks
- environmental impact
- environmental impacts
- environmental climate impact
- environmental climate impacts
- environmental climate impact driver
- environmental climate impact drivers
- degradation of ecosystem services
- degradation of ecosystem service
- ecosystem degradation
- environmental degradation
- degradation of the environment
- degrading ecosystems
- threats to ecosystem health
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | environmental risk |
Environmental risk refers to adverse impacts on terrestrial, marine, and cryospheric systems from climate-related hazards, exposure, and vulnerability, and the risks related to air-pollution. |
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Environmental risk refers to adverse impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems. Unsustainable land-use and land cover change, unsustainable use of natural resources, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and their interactions, adversely affect the capacities of ecosystems, societies, communities and individuals to adapt to climate change.
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