Natural Capital Degradation. Greenhouse gases water abstraction land use water land pollution air pollution waste. Natural capital degradation involves using resources at an unsustainable rate.
Natural capital degradation involves using resources at an unsustainable rate. Examples include forests shrinking topsoil eroding and deserts expanding. Environmental degradation can alters some of the natural process such as the water cycle and the normal processes of animal and plant activities.
It is caused directly or indirectly by anthropogenic activities.
Natural capital degradation involves using resources at an unsustainable rate. As a result of it pressure of population on land has increased very much and land is being exploited ruthlessly. These people cut trees for their subsistence and thereby exploit natural capital. Moreover natural capital yields benefits and goods such as timber or food which can be harvested by humans.
