Sentences with phrase «most ecological systems»
Most ecological systems are exposed to multiple stressors.
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Evolving our global food production system so that it supports the economic well - being of farmers, as well as long - term ecological stability, is not only the right thing to do — it is in the best interest for every single player in the supply chain, from farmers in the most remote regions of the world to consumers in every major metropolis.
In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the world.
Most reduce complex ecological systems to a linear relationship between resource density and population growth — something that can be broadly applied to infer how much resource loss a species can survive.
To maintain this status while growing its electricity system to serve millions of new customers, the country is planning a major expansion of hydroelectric power in the Amazon Basin — one of the most important ecological systems in the world.
And in environmental research, there is always a good chance that the most economic solution is in compliance with nature and therefore stabilizes the ecological system.
Studies have found that kelp forests are one of the most productive systems in the ocean with high biodiversity and ecological function.
Not necessarily meat, but when it comes to fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, eating what mother nature provided without altering its ecological balance is the most beneficial way to get live nutrients into your system.
Building on Honda's emphasis on fuel - economy, most upcoming Civic models receive Honda Eco Assist (Ecological Drive Assist System) technology (earlier post), already available in the CR - Z and Insight hybrids.
Most conservationists recognize the moral value of ecological systems.
Laos» pristine ecological system is still as nature intended — set off on one of the company's tailor - made Laos holidays and they'll take you to the most beautiful parts of this delightful country.
A significant part of his oeuvre to date has led him to scrutinize the actual and dominant demands for technological advances, most of which depend on further depleting the Earth's natural resources and have vast implications for the future of our ecological systems.
His thesis also clearly informs the work of Erle Ellis of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whose research on «anthromes» as units of ecological function is premised on the reality that there is a deep — and not necessarily «bad» — human influence on most biological systems.
It is also clear that modest amounts of warming will have both positive and negative impacts, but above about 4 or 5 degrees Fahrenheit most impacts turn negative for many ecological systems, and for most nations.
Climate change not only threatens more people, animals, and ecological systems around the world than the Gulf spill; it promises to be a problem that will continually wreck havoc for centuries while harming the world's poorest and most vulnerable people with drought, floods, killer storms, rising sea levels, and vector borne disease.
In doing so, we overlook the most fundamental and efficient systems around us — the ecological ones.
If you concede that climate skeptics have not proven in peer - reviewed journals that human - induced warming is not a very serious threat to human health and ecological systems, given that human - induced warming could create catastrophic warming the longer the human community waits to respond to reduce the threat of climate change and the more difficult it will be to prevent dangerous warming, do you agree that those nations most responsible for rising atmospheric ghg concentrations have a duty to demonstrate that their ghg emissions are safe?
The most striking feature of urban agriculture, which distinguishes it from rural agriculture, is that it is integrated into the urban economic and ecological system: urban agriculture is embedded in - and interacting with - the urban ecosystem.
A position on a global ghg atmospheric stabilization target is essentially an ethical question because a global ghg atmospheric concentration goal will determine to what extent the most vulnerable people and the ecological systems on which they depend will be put at risk.
As human development increasingly creates conflicts with wildlife and natural systems — most notably reflected through shrinking ecological diversity and quickening global climate change — Scenic Hudson said the expertise of a research scientist is crucial.
Permaculture is another one of these concepts that, as Hopkins notes, is «notoriously difficult to explain in two minutes in the pub,» but it's most commonly described as an ecological design movement that sees nature in terms of interlocking systems.
«Ecological theory,» as advanced by renowned developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, emphasizes the multiple, interdependent «ecologies,» or environmental systems, in which children develop.67 In this theory, which has been tested and confirmed by numerous studies, the most important ecologies for children are the «microsystems» — those ecologies that contain the direct relationships children have with caring adults.
The most integrative of these theories is ecological systems theory (Bronfenbrenner 1979).