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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

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The alterations to the physical environment and human interactions with it that may create or exacerbate risks that exist with or without climate change.  1, record 1, English, - environmental%20change

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Many of the results of our dependence on energy are obvious: air pollution, water pollution, thermal pollution, and noise pollution, to name a few. ... All of these basic environmental problems can be grouped together logically under the heading of "environmental degradation," since this title more clearly describes the situation. The fact that we dump polluting materials on the earth is not in itself dangerous; the earth has remarkable recuperative powers. What must concern us is how far the degradation of the earth's recuperative processes can be carried before those processes begin to fail.  5, record 1, English, - environmental%20change

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Sustainable adaptation must be considered both within the context of climate change and the broader hazardscape.  1, record 1, English, - environmental%20change

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Compare with "environmental damage."  6, record 1, English, - environmental%20change

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environmental change: term and definition standardized by Public Safety Canada and the Translation Bureau.  7, record 1, English, - environmental%20change

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

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Ensemble des altérations de l'environnement physique et des interactions humaines avec celui-ci qui peuvent créer ou aggraver les risques qui existent avec ou sans changement climatique.  3, record 1, French, - d%C3%A9gradation%20de%20l%27environnement

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La prise de conscience des effets néfastes de la pollution et de ses possibles rétroactions sur la croissance a donné lieu à des formalisations théoriques et à la recherche d'instruments (notamment économiques) pour une politique de correction des dysfonctionnements du marché générateurs de dégradation de l'environnement.  4, record 1, French, - d%C3%A9gradation%20de%20l%27environnement

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L'adaptation durable doit être examinée dans le contexte et du changement climatique et de l'environnement des risques.  3, record 1, French, - d%C3%A9gradation%20de%20l%27environnement

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dégradation de l'environnement : terme et définition normalisés par Sécurité publique Canada et le Bureau de la traduction.  5, record 1, French, - d%C3%A9gradation%20de%20l%27environnement

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

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Proceso inducido por el comportamiento y las actividades humanas (en ocasiones en combinación con peligros naturales) que dañan los recursos naturales básicos o modifican negativamente los procesos naturales o los ecosistemas.  5, record 1, Spanish, - degradaci%C3%B3n%20medioambiental

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medioambiente; medio ambiente: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, explica que las formas medioambiente y medio ambiente son correctas, aunque se prefiere la grafía simple. Las palabras que pierden su acento al pronunciarse junto a otras tienden a escribirse unidas, motivo por el cual medio ambiente […] forma medioambiente, […] de acuerdo con la Ortografía de la lengua española. [...] Por otro lado, cuando forma parte de una denominación oficial, se aconseja respetar la forma que aparece en el nombre [...] El plural de medioambiente es medioambientes y el adjetivo derivado es medioambiental, en una sola palabra.  6, record 1, Spanish, - degradaci%C3%B3n%20medioambiental

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

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Since alteration means change, change in the environment is synonymous with alteration. In this case, it is a change for the worse. Often the effects of alteration are neither immediately discernible nor accurately predictable. Who can foresee what will happen to a 1970 American baby who is born in an air-conditioned hospital, taken home in an air-conditioned car, reared in an air-conditioned apartment, schooled in an air-conditioned school and amused by recreational activities in an air-conditioned bubble? This unnatural alteration of normal rises and falls in daily temperature may result in eventual genetic changes. And what alteration is being wrought on the urban atmosphere during the summer while hundreds of thousands of air-conditioned apartments and homes pump their waste heat out into the atmosphere and the occupants undergo alteration of temperature and humidity inside? Undesirable levels of pollutants - toxic and otherwise - of course cause alteration of air, water and soil.  1, record 2, English, - change%20in%20the%20environment

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

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La source CILFG-20 («Dict. des secours d'urgence en cas de catastrophe», par William S. Gunn) définit le terme «altération de l'environnement» comme une «Modification, favorable ou défavorable, de l'état de l'environnement». Selon nous, cependant, «altération» ne peut en fait être considéré comme un synonyme de «modification» que si la modification est défavorable (ce qui est presque toujours le cas néanmoins). En effet, altérer veut dire «modifier en mal l'état normal d'une chose, dénaturer l'état normal de quelque chose» [d'après le Grand dict. encycl. Larousse].  4, record 2, French, - modification%20de%20l%27environnement

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