According to C. Michael Hogan, the Daugava River began experiencing environmental deterioration in the era of Soviet collective agriculture ( producing considerable adverse water pollution runoff ) and a wave of hydroelectric power projects.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " China has been working with great determination in recent years to develop, implement, and enforce a solid environmental law framework.

According to the American Psychological Association ( APA ), there are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation, but some believe that " sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors ," and that genetic factors play a " significant role " in determining a person's sexuality.

According to a 2006 United Nations initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contribute on a " massive scale " to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.

According to an internal memo from Philip Morris referring to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), " the credibility of the EPA is defeatable, but not on the basis of ETS ( environmental tobacco smoke ) alone.

According to the British Nutrition Foundation, trout contain one of the lowest amounts of dioxins ( a type of environmental contaminant ) of all oily fishes.

According to the EIB, in these countries, the institution works to implement the financial pillar of the union's external cooperation and development policies: private sector development, infrastructure development, security of energy supply, environmental sustainability.

According to a meta-analysis published in 2002, approximately 40 % of variation between individuals is explained by differences in genes, and 60 % by differences in environment ( mainly non-shared environmental influences rather than those that would be shared by being raised together ).

" According to the CBD, Kempthorne's regulations violated the Endagered Species Act, " did not go through the required public review process " and " were rushed by the Bush administration through an abbreviated process " with " environmental impacts were analyzed in a short and cursory environmental assessment, rather than a fuller environmental impact statement.

According to flag designer Spring Davis, the blue represents the town and the University of North Carolina ( whose colors are Carolina blue and white ); the green represents " environmental awareness "; and the " townscape " in the inverted chevron represents " a sense of home, friends, and community.

One of the primary myths initially believed by communities facing environmental injustice is that the government is “ on our side .” According to Luke W. Cole, this myth is shared more widely among white Americans than among minorities, probably because minorities have historically faced several levels of governmental injustice.

According to the proposal, the three broad objectives of the future CAP are: " Viable food production ", " Sustainable management of natural resources " and " Balanced territorial development ", which respond directly to the economic, environmental and territorial balance challenges identified in the Communication and which guide the proposed changes to the CAP instruments.

According to Peter Berg, bioregionalism is proactive, and is based on forming a harmony between human culture and the natural environment, rather than being protest-based like the original environmental movement.

According to the consensus environmental protection was considered at best a necessary evil, and at worst a temporary nuisance.

According to the WWF, an ecoregion is defined as a " relatively large unit of land or water containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions ( Dinerstein et al.

According to its Environmental Mission Statement, Bowdoin College " shall seek to encourage conservation, recycling, and other sustainable practices in its daily decision making processes, and shall take into account, in the operations of the College, all appropriate economic, environmental, and social concerns.

According to the university administration, the most remarkable recent research achievements have been in the fields of molecular and cell biology, gene technology, immunology, pharmacology, laser medicine, materials science, laser spectroscopy, biochemistry, environmental technology, computational linguistics, psychology, and semiotics.

According to the International Parking Institute, " parking is a $ 25 billion industry and plays a pivotal role in transportation, building design, quality of life and environmental issues "

According to Gilmartin, love-shyness is, like most human psychological characteristics, the result of some combination of biological factors ( genetic / developmental ) and environmental factors ( experiences of child abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ), cultural, familial, religious, etc .).

According to the ICANN Dashboard ( Domain Name ) report, the composition of < tt > org </ tt > is diverse, including cultural institutions ; associations ; sports / teams ; religious, and civic organizations ; open-source software projects ; schools ; environmental initiatives ; social, and fraternal organizations ; health organizations ; legal services ; as well as clubs, and community-volunteer groups.

According to Zwicky, neglect of either logical or lyric thinking leads to our ontological, epistemological, ethical and environmental peril.

According to recent estimates, about 5 to 10 % of disability adjusted life years ( DALYs ) lost are due to environmental causes in Europe.

According to its 2010 General Election Manifesto, the National Front's policy on environmental issues includes enacting legislation to protect existing green areas and to also seek to expand their size and number, particularly in cities.

According to the accounts of historian Diodorus Siculus and geographer Strabo, the area's first permanent settlers were the mountain-dwelling Ligures, who emigrated from their native city of Genoa, Italy.

According to Ahmad Y. al-Hassan, these panemone windmills were invented in eastern Persia as recorded by the Persian geographer Estakhri in the 9th century .< ref >

According to Pausanias the geographer ( 3. 19. 9 – 10 ): " The account of the Rhodians is different.

According to geographer Pausanias ( 1. 28. 2 ), the original bronze Lemnian Athena was created by Phidias circa 450-440 BCE, for Athenians living on Lemnos.

According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the " Song of Geryon ", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book Geographika ( volume III ), the Hesperides are in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula.

According to the Roman geographer Strabo, the early Empire sent a fleet of around 120 ships on an annual one-year trip to China, Southeast Asia, India and back.

According to the ancient geographer Ptolemy, writing in the 2nd century AD, Dunium was the main settlement of the Durotriges.

The Greek geographer Strabo claimed that Greek colonists named the river Sybaris after a fountain of the same name at Bura in Achaia: According to some sources it had the property of making the horses that drank its water shy.

According to the Arab geographer Yakut, in the mid-13th century there were two independent sultans ruling over parts of Pemba Island.

According to the Greek geographer Strabo, Capri was once part of the mainland.

According to the 9th century Arab geographer Ya ' qubi, ar-Ramleh ( Ramla ) was founded in 716 by the Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, and its name was derived from the Arabic word Raml ( رمل )— meaning sand.

According to the Egyptian Greek geographer Ptolemy, the Phoenicians had founded here a colony named Saduce, but the Romans are the most likey to have founded the current town, as shown by findings of edifices and a necropolis ( from whose size it has been deduced that the settlement had around 2, 000 inhabitants ).

According to the ancient geographer Strabo, Daco-Moesian was further spread into Asia Minor in the form of Mysian by a migration of the Moesi people ; Strabo asserts that Moesi and Mysi were variants of the same name.

According to the French geographer Ernest Nègre, the name Menton comes from the Roman name Mento.

According to the geographer Strabo's reports in the 1st century, today's location of the city of Čakovec was the site of Aquama ( wet town ) in Roman times and at the time a marshland, a military post and a legionnaire camp.

According to geographer Elek Fényes, in 1851 Felső-Őr was a Hungarian village with a population of 2323 people.

According to Arab geographer al-Ya ' qubi, it was the last town in the Province of Syria and on the road from Ramla to Egypt.

According to the geographer Claudius Ptolemy, the indigenes were the powerful Turdetani, in the valley of the Guadalquivir in the west, bordering on Lusitania, and the partly Hellenized Turduli with their city Baelon, in the hinterland behind the coastal Phoenician trading colonies, whose Punic inhabitants Ptolemy termed the " Bastuli ".

According to a theory first proposed by Lennart Meri, it is possible that Saaremaa was the legendary Thule island, first mentioned by ancient Greek geographer Pytheas, whereas the name " Thule " could have been connected to the Finnic word tule ("( of ) fire ") and the folklore of Estonia, which depicts the birth of the crater lake in Kaali.

According to the Greek geographer Strabo, Seleucus was also the first to assume the universe to be infinite.

According to the calculations of the Russian geographer Alexander Bazelyuk, merely 9. 1 km of the length of the West Manych river remains in its original " river " ( rather than reservoir form ): 8. 2 km from the Vesyolovsk Dam to the upper reaches of the Ust-Manych Reservoir, and 0. 9 km from the Ust-Manych Dam to the river's fall into the Don.

According to Israeli geographer Zev Vilnay, the land belonged to the Catholic Monastery of St. Anne, whose monks hailed mainly from France.

According to Ahmad ibn Rustah ( c. 930 ), a Persian explorer and geographer, the " Magyars are a race of Huns and their king rides out with horsemen to the number of 10, 000 and this king is called Kanda.

According to Glanville Price, the account of the Greek geographer Strabo shows that the Getae and the Dacians were one and the same people.