Sentences with phrase «at a national scale»

To describe forest cover at the national scale, the use of information from remote sensing, whether satellite images or aerial photographs, represented the most accurate data source.

So, although renewable energy output might be intermittent on a regional scale, it would have a more constant flow at a national scale.

Historically two obstacles have slowed accurate carbon inventories at national scales.

It begins with resources that set the context at the national scale and then starts to delve deeper at local scale factors where the spatial distribution of elderly impacts both rural and urban areas.

The MRLC is a group of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of environmental, land management, and modeling applications.

Students then go on to explore the use of ecological footprint at the national scale through a case study on Switzerland.

Except against countries from which we import oil or certain rare earths we can impose trade sanctions with impunity at the national scale.

The ultimate goal of research is to develop indicators that can be obtained at national scales and used for pan-European comparison of structural properties of forests.

«Species monitoring of shallow reef communities at national scales is only possible with the support of citizen scientists, such as the RLS divers who contributed data to our study.

Poston added that each institution is going to need a multiplicity of approaches for supporting students and collecting data at a national scale.

It was under his guidance that astronomy really took off in Canada, developing first at the national scale and then rising to international stature.

Our pivotal role is to lead a multidisciplinary consortium to provide schools and communities with technical expertise in: school improvement; teacher training and behaviour change programmes at a national scale; girls» education, protection and rights; community mobilisation and cash transfers; primary health care, school health and non-state slum education; and monitoring, research and evaluation in education.

This approach analyzes or programmatically addresses a program, category of activity, or type of impact at a national scale.

Anyone who has been following FAOs leadership of the «climate - smart» agriculture agenda should be concerned that climate finance decisions will follow their priorities rather than those determined at a national scale.

We downscale four planetary boundaries (climate change, land - system change, freshwater use and biogeochemical flows) to per capita equivalents, and compare these to footprint indicators at the national scale.

We combine these two approaches to measure sustainability at the national scale, by comparing national consumption - based environmental footprints to «downscaled» planetary boundaries6.

«This report is a big step forward is transforming the built environment to improve health and wellness at a national scale.»

While the above illustrates the challenges associated with comparing «raw» data taken at stations to the long - term time series for locations, the Bureau can show some comparisons at the national scale.

Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries: an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK (open access)

Interestingly, controlling graft was also highlighted by Venter and colleagues (2016) as a factor influencing why economically growing countries have differential human - footprint outcomes between 1993 and 2009; lower corruption scores and greater urbanization percentages were associated with decreased human influence at the national scale.

They are looking toward the future of how crypto - assets will be used and deployed at national scale.

To improve the lives of institutionalized children, Dr. Yildiz has designed, coordinated and conducted several projects at the national scale sponsored by the Turkish government including Evidence Based Mentoring Programs and Individualized Rehabilitation Models focused on utilizing healthy peer relationships for social and emotional rehabilitation of disadvantaged, institutionalized youth.

REPORT: Toward High - Quality Early Childhood Development Programs and Policies at National Scale: Directions for Research in Global Contexts Two - page Brief

While the deployment of nuclear (and hydro) at national scales for some countries can be safely said to have caused reductions in carbon intensity, we err on the side of caution and refrain from claiming a causal connection at aggregated national levels.

«I'm fairly confident that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new wealth gets created, we're going to see some version of this at a national scale,» wrote Y Combinator president Sam Altman in January.

«It's great to hear Secretary Clinton talking about doing that at a national scale.

She talks about the challenges of generating educational change at a national scale and how to take advantage of the technological rich infrastructure that Uruguay has in order to accelerate results.

Lead author Terry Marsh, senior hydrologist at CEH, says: «At a national scale, the winter floods of 2015/16 were the most extreme on record.

Improving energy efficiency (EE) can reduce energy demand and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and deliver a range of other benefits such as improved air quality, enhanced economic competitiveness and, at the national scale, a higher degree of energy security.

Improving energy efficiency (EE) can deliver a range of benefits such as improved air quality, enhanced economic competitiveness and, at the national scale, a higher degree of energy security.