Sentences with phrase «as environmental drivers»
«Our research points to the fact that changes in long - distance contact, socio - cultural interactions and population movements may be just as important, or more important, for innovation as environmental drivers,» says van Niekerk.
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The May 10 EPA Merit Award ceremony in Boston's Faneuil Hall drew hundreds of attendees from environmental agencies and nonprofits organizations, including Wellfleet Bay supporters such as Bruce Beane, a volunteer driver.
As the governor signed the documents, a coalition of environmental groups released a report that finds lands designated wilderness are an economic driver for the Park.
Evolutionary biologists and animal behavior researchers are searching out the genetic basis and molecular drivers of cooperative behaviors, as well as the physiological, environmental, and behavioral impetus for sociality.
Furthermore, the approach allows the investigators to assess the O2 consumption rates as a function of environmental drivers like food availability and hydrodynamics.
Because it uses environmental productivity as a key driver of ecosystemdynamics, EEH incorporates both bottom - up and top - down forces.
«There are many potential benefits to concentrating our environmental impact by intensifying drivers of land - use change, such as agriculture and forestry, in exchange for gazetting large remote undisturbed reserves.
As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.
«Temperature is widely recognized as a key environmental driver of reefs and temperature extremes are known to be one of the key stressors to coral reef communities around the world,» Ryan Lowe from the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute and School of Earth and Environment who led the research, said in a statement.
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) defines Level 5 as «full automation,» capable of operating «under all roadway and environmental conditions that can be managed by a human driver.»
The new Raptor's off - road mode driving technology is now presented as the Terrain Management System, and allows drivers to select their driving dynamics based on environmental conditions.
A late - comer to the pursuit of tourism as a primary driver for the island's economy, St. Kitts is uniquely positioned in the Caribbean to be able to structure their developing tourism product along the principles of environmental sustainability.
The overlapping drivers of disease and environmental change, as well as their development implications, point towards the need for, and benefits, of «One Health», a more integrated view and approach to human, animal and environmental health.
But, as Mendelson writes, that would miss the wider point revealed when putting this species» interruped story in wider context of Earth's unfolding «Anthropocene» — a span, duration as yet unknown, in which humans are the dominant driver of environmental change.
A particularly powerful thread, the importance of the Pentagon as a driver of innovation and market for effective energy technology, emerged in an earlier discussion involving three of the top figures in the federal government focused on advancing energy choices that will work for the long haul — Cathy Zoi, assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy, Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who runs environmental research and development programs for the Department of Defense.
This manual outlines key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures.
Anthropogenic climate change and land use change in the form of agricultural expansion («habitat conversion» — a sweet description for deforestation) act as synergistic drivers of biodiversity loss — in a Costa Rican environmental experiment — literally drying out the... Continue reading →
Neither of us has a history of environmental activism, but both of us are moved by the compelling scientific evidence emerging from multiple, independent lines of study implicating human industry as the driver of worldwide climate change.
Secondly, knowledge failures (research and information challenges), such as failure to address social and environmental drivers of ill health, a historical scarcity of transdisciplinary research and funding, together with an unwillingness or inability to deal with uncertainty within decision making frameworks.
Such institutional factors as urban planning policies that favor alternatives to auto transport, by providing high quality transit systems and raising environmental awareness may be key drivers of these differences.
«Calculating the greenhouse gas impact of business activities will allow the group to use carbon as a driver for continuous environmental improvement and is a great compliment to their new greenERhouse ™ program,» commented Mike Watt, VP at Walker Environenvironmental improvement and is a great compliment to their new greenERhouse ™ program,» commented Mike Watt, VP at Walker EnvironmentalEnvironmental Group.
Environmental experts and advocates have long viewed natural gas as a critical driver of the shift from coal to lower - carbon energy.
«Temperature is widely recognised as a key environmental driver of reefs and temperature extremes are known to be one of the key stressors to coral reef communities around the world,» Lowe said in a statement.
And herein lies the problem, this article fails to discuss what is driving the rampant «resource» exploitation namely economic growth which in turn is acting as a driver of environmental degradation.
Agriculture and food consumption are identified as one of the most important drivers of environmental pressures, especially habitat change, climate change, water use and toxic emissions.
In addition, ocean acidification is co-occurring with other drivers of environmental change (including warming, eutrophication, hypoxia, eutrophication, pollution [12]-RRB-, yet the interactive effects and relative importance of multiple stressors on species physiology, life history and ecology, as well as species — environment interactions and ecosystem function remain poorly understood [13 — 17].
Second, we argue for the primacy of urbanization as a driver of change in demographics, resource consumption, and ideation and, in turn, develop a qualitative model of how changes in those factors drive environmental impacts, harming and then potentially helping nature in a broadly predictable way.
Total consumption equals population multiplied by average consumption per capita, both of which are recognized as primary drivers of human environmental impact.2
These histories can be associated with the scene geometry and environmental conditions to assess human factors issues such as: perception - reaction, visibility, driver strategies or potential evasive tactics.
How buildings are used, in energy terms, is becoming a crucial issue: energy costs are rising; various policy drivers (such as display energy certificates) mean that there is increasing awareness of the environmental impact of the built environment; and the pricing and rationing from the CRC (carbon reduction commitment) will begin to bite over the next few years.
«Green Drivers Ed» for Hanford, Salinas, and Turlock - Drivers Ed Direct is widely accepted as the first «Green Driving School», which means we run our driving school operation with an environmental conscious, even if it means not always taking the easy route.
This is a welcome marker in an increasingly uncertain world and reflects lifestyle and employment trends as much as transport or environmental drivers.