Preferred term

environmental degradation

Is replaced by

[A. K. Pandey] Environmental degradation is a burgeoning problem owing to the continual expansion of industrialproduction, and high-levels of energy and material consumption associated with economic growth.Cleaner Production (CP) is a preventive environmental approach, aimed at increasing resourceefficiency and reducing the generation of pollution and waste at source...

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0390