Sentences with phrase «as land use changes»

Here's why: Energy Returned on Energy Invested Better Too Although the study did not take into account the effects of indirect emissions, such as land use changes, because of improvements in crop and soil management, as well as corn hybrids which allow for steadily increased crop yields,

Climate Change per IPCC def is changing climate (> 30 years averages) due to effects of anthropogneic CO2 and other human influences / activities such as land use changes.

Factors that determine whether a disease changes distribution include: importation from international travel of people, vectors or hosts (insects, agricultural products), changes in vector or host susceptibility, drug resistance, and environmental changes, such as land use change or climate change.

«At the moment the voices that are heard tend to be advocating for big embankments and flood defences when they should be addressing the underlying causes such as land use change.

We target disturbances such as land use change and fire at the local and regional level.

Not exact matches

But fortunately, just as poor land - management practices are contributors to climate change, use of good on - farm...

As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy, climate change & emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.

Their estimates suggest a population of over 9 billion people and a change in dietary habits, such as increased meat consumption, using more resources such as water, energy and land.

... modalities, rules and guidelines as to how, and which, additional human - induced activities related to changes in greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks in the agricultural soils and the land - use change and forestry... shall be added or subtracted.

Because the Continuum project is seeking a zoning change, it will need approval through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, which includes input from the local community board and borough president as well as up - down votes from the City Planning Commission, City Council and mayor.

In addition to revising existing rules, Mr. Russell said, revamping the code would allow the town to add new uses and take a fresh look at land - use requirements in order to better fit the changing industry while minimizing negative impacts such as increased traffic.

Federal Law is Changing Rockland's Zoning Landscape BY LEGAL LARRY In 2000, Congress enacted a law known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.

Speaking at the Georgetown University, Washington DC on Saturday, Saraki said previous images of Africa as land of disease and wars and famine have changed noting that even western media that used to portray the continent as dark now have programmes dedicated to celebrating the new day in Africa.

Using historical data, they included carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and changes in land use — such as deforestation.

In the Northeast, the researchers project a ratio of high species movement from land use as compared to climate change, based on its already dense development and large population.

For example, soil is second only to oceans as the planet's largest carbon sink, while agriculture and land use changes represent the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

GCAM is especially suited for projections such as this because it takes into account ongoing future changes in technology, society and the economy, including energy and land use.

«I was carrying out sampling for my Masters Degree studies, but I had no idea that new dung beetles could be found in a forest that is disturbed by human activities, such as livestock grazing and land - use change,» recalls Moctezuma.

Mortelliti, whose lab research focuses on the effects of land - use change on mammals and birds, will focus on the northward movement of plant species as temperature increases.

In a recent review of the literature, Winfree and her colleagues concluded that land - use changes such as urbanization and deforestation can affect native pollinators differently, depending on whether they increase or reduce the numbers and diversity of flowering plants.

Previous studies tend to underestimate such connections as simulated land - atmosphere interaction is also resolution - dependent, which means that the signals for changes in small - scale land use are likely to be much weaker in a coarse resolution model,» says Minchao Wu.

However, when land is used for agriculture, as a wood source, or for mining, carbon is often released into the atmosphere where it contributes to climate change.

The study authored by Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists John Coulston, David Wear, and Jim Vose is the first to isolate the impacts of forest disturbances, such as fire, disease, and cutting, as well as the impacts of land use change using permanent monitoring locations across the Southeast making it one of the most thorough carbon studies completed.

According to the report, under a «business as usual» scenario, climate change will be the fastest growing driver negatively impacting biodiversity by 2050 in the Americas, becoming comparable to the pressures imposed by land use change.

Rising costs from flood damage are due to several factors such as changes in climate, land use, population and wealth.

And in reality, that percentage will probably be much more than 5 %, and there will be lots of other land - use change as well to replace the other 95 % of the vegetable oil.

Right now, indirect land use related to biofuels isn't included in proposed climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate, as well as proposed agreements that will be on the table in Copenhagen.

The locations of weather stations, changes in instruments, the siting of weather stations in warmer urban areas, changes in land cover and other issues have all been cited as issues affecting the temperature trends often used to show that our planet is in fact warming.

Land use in these parts of northern Europe has changed markedly with key butterfly habitats such as hay meadows disappearing at alarming rates.

As they spread into new areas due to changes in climate and land use, DNA can now tell us which animals will be at risk for rabies, opening up the possibility for more targeted vaccination and surveillance campaigns.»

The burgeoning world population (predicted to be 9.3 billion by 2050), changing consumer demand in third - world countries, the gradual depletion of prime agricultural land, the use of innovative technologies, and scientists who view plants as a source of industrial products as well as food all contribute to the good prospects for the ag - biotech industry, particularly in Canada.

The study supports calls for improved monitoring of wetlands and human changes to those ecosystems — a timely topic as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to examine land use impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, says Prof. Merritt Turetsky, Department of Integrative Biology.

The research program also will analyze changes in Viking society as shown by land use.

In subsequent years, these annual reports used these data to evaluate specific impacts, such as the arrival of climate change and activities on private lands.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

The study is the first to differentiate between the impact of human activity in the Amazon — such as deforestation or changes in land use — and the impact of climate change to quantify the carbon - storing potential of new forests.

«When combined with other threats, such as land use, climate change, cats, and buildings, it's no wonder we're seeing such strong declines in so many bird species across the United States.»

Malaria is also affected by shifts in seasonal rainfall and humidity, as well as land - use change and urbanization.

Land - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thouLand - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thouland to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thought.

They estimated that land - use changes in the continental United States since the 1960s have resulted in a rise in the mean surface temperature of 0.25 degree Fahrenheit, a figure Kalnay says «is at least twice as high as previous estimates based on urbanization alone.»

The results indicate that although land - use change is currently considered as the major driver of pollinator declines in Europe, climate is the most important factor limiting the distribution of pollinators at large spatial scales.

Other explanations, such as a more virulent strain or changes in land use, agriculture, or animal health systems, seemed implausible, they said, and the disease had struck primarily in those areas that had heated up the most.

Importantly, countries such as Jordan that are dependent on waterways flowing downstream to them are vulnerable to the consequences of drought and land - use change in upstream regions.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

Human activities and land use changes that result in permanent deforestation have a much greater impact than temporary deforestation from natural disturbances, such as a fire.

Regional - level boundaries as well as globally aggregated PBs have now been developed for biosphere integrity (earlier «biodiversity loss»), biogeochemical flows, land - system change, and freshwater use.

Lal calculates that land - use changes such as these have stripped 70 billion to 100 billion tons of carbon from the world's soils and pumped it into the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and lakes since the dawn of agriculture.

Land - use change and agriculture are by far the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, as forests and savannas are cut down for cattle pastures and cropland.

Other high biodiversity areas, such as Amazonia, which have seen no land use change have higher levels of biodiversity and more scope for proactive conservation.

Joseph Poore highlighted vast reductions in human land use as yet another clear and positive benefit of diet change (12...