Sentences with phrase «anthropogenic global environmental change»

However, there remains a serious lack of knowledge about fire's fundamental role in Earth system processes, as well as an insufficient appreciation of fire's interaction with anthropogenic global environmental change,» the authors write.

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The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Even if we had a steady - state society based on «best practices», we would still need to be continually adapting to environmental changes — and that would be true even without anthropogenic change, which will be affecting global conditions for centuries to come.

«Most scientists now regard anthropogenic (human - caused) global climate change to be the most important environmental issue of our times.»

Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature — Abstract — Environmental Research Letters — IOPscience We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer - reviewed scientific literature, examining 11944 climate abstracts from 1991 — 2011 matching the topics «global climate change» or «global warming».

[3] In this sense, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term climate change has become synonymous with anthropogenic global warming.

From the article:... While and colleagues (2009:2) observe that the global campaign to address anthropogenic climate change has recently become «the new «master concept» of environmental governance,» eclipsing biological diversity conservation as the central organizing principle around which ecological work is undertaken.