Sentences with phrase «better ecosystem management»

By having more information on what processes are active in the different parts of the Baltic Sea, such models can likely be refined, leading to better predictions and in the long run better ecosystem management.

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The GBX — GSX ecosystem plans to host a complete range of ancillary services from banking and payments to company formation and asset management as well as facilitate dual / multiple listings on a global network of stock exchanges.

We get a better feel for management behaviour and we get more information about how a business fits into its ecosystem.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

The workbook has 14 chapters encompassing best practices from the grape to glass: viticulture, soil management, vineyard water management, pest management, wine quality, ecosystem management, energy efficiency, winery water conservation and quality, material handling, solid waste reduction and management, environmentally preferable purchasing, human resources, neighbors and community and air quality.

«CSWA will hold workshops on issues such as water quality, ecosystem management and energy efficiency, as well as developing new chapters for the best practices workbook.»

The Workbook has 14 chapters encompassing best practices from the grape to glass: viticulture, soil management, vineyard water management, pest management, wine quality, ecosystem management, energy efficiency, winery water conservation and quality, material handling, solid waste reduction and management, environmentally preferable purchasing, human resources, neighbors and community and air quality.

Agroforestry and other techniques for better environmental management of such agriculture remain rare, despite their proven ability to help balance increased food production with ecosystem services like carbon sequestration.

To that end, RCF operates a long - term study that examines how intertwined grizzly bears are with their chief food source, salmon, to ultimately inform ecosystem - based management of salmon such that the nutritional needs of grizzlies as well as other coastal large carnivores such as black bears are safeguarded.

«This paper shows that ecosystems are best thought of as portfolios of natural capital assets and the wealth held in the ecosystem provides an attractive headline index for ecosystem - based management,» said Seong Do Yun, a postdoctoral fellow at F&ES and lead author of the paper.

In other words, the evaluation of the wealth of an ecosystem — and its subsequent management — is best viewed in terms of how different species interact.

«This is a species that has been logged historically and still is, so it certainly is important in terms of thinking about not only how our ecosystems are responding to changes in climate, but also in changes of the economics of forest management, as well,» Restaino said.

«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

A better understanding of this unique marine ecosystem will eventually allow for better development of management and conservation strategies.»

Scientists at Michigan State University's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, in two parallel papers published in this week's journal PLOS ONE, develop a new integrated approach to measure human dependence on ecosystem services and human well - being so as to promote the understanding of the linkages between them — an important step toward improved understanding, monitoring and management of coupled human and natural systems.

Researchers at the Moorea site have been active in developing the cyberinfrastructure for a sensor network that would provide real - time environmental data to enable better management of the reef ecosystem.

The Blue Carbon Initiative partners, as well as many other organizations around the world, are working on conservation science, policy and management of blue carbon ecosystems globally.

Santa Clara, CA — December 15, 2017 — The ExpertusONE Learning Management System (LMS) received an honorable mention in the Best All - Purpose Extended Enterprise LMS category, which is designed to best support the diverse needs of external learning audiences in a corporate ecosysBest All - Purpose Extended Enterprise LMS category, which is designed to best support the diverse needs of external learning audiences in a corporate ecosysbest support the diverse needs of external learning audiences in a corporate ecosystem.

Discovering weeds before they become well - established is critical to reducing damage to ecosystem integrity, preventing the loss of habitat for rare plants and animals, and preventing costly natural resource management.

Taken in total they express our best understanding of the status and trends of the ecosystem and cultural resources in the sanctuary, an assessment of what research activities are most needed to more completely address our management needs, and recent successes in meeting our research needs.

First launched in 2006, the Urban Field Station provides a location for this long - term research partnership promoting applied science on urban ecology, conservation, stewardship, and ecological literacy to support ecosystem management and human well - being.

Soil carbon lost from Mollisols of the North Central U.S.A. with 20 years of agricultural best management practices, Gregg R. Sanford et al., Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, v162, pp 68 et seq..

The document recommends the use of adaptive forest management to protect forest resources against increasing abiotic disturbances, and calls for the use of strategies such as species diversification, windbreaks and mixed cropping patterns to enhance ecosystem resilience, as well as selective planting.

Such measures can range from «working with nature» (e.g., placing a greater emphasis on coastal resource management, or protecting mangrove and natural reef ecosystems), to a concerted «climate - proofing» of infrastructure, including storm - drainage systems, water supply and treatment plants, as well as protection or relocation of energy or solid waste management facilities.

This increased exposure for CDR approaches, which encompass both biological (e.g. afforestation, ecosystem restoration, land management, biochar, and bio-CCS) and chemical (e.g. direct air capture, enhanced mineral weathering) techniques — is a good thing for the climate change debate: we will likely need to have scalable, sustainable, cost - effective CDR systems as well as ways to reduce our emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

«The incorporation of sound science and meaningful stakeholder involvement in the planning and management of wave energy projects is in the best interests of nearshore ecosystems and coastal communities.»

In the short term, better management of overfishing and local stressors may increase resilience of reefs to climate threats, but rising global CO2 emissions will rapidly outstrip the capacity of local coastal managers and policy - makers to maintain the health of these critical ecosystems if the emissions continue unchecked, the authors stress.

With the need for better global water management and the push for expanded global hydropower capacity, careful siting of new reservoirs, and revising management of existing ones may help balance the positive ecosystem services that reservoirs provide against the GHG emission costs.

Management actions, such as maintenance of genetic diversity, assisted species migration and dispersal, manipulation of disturbance regimes (e.g., fires, floods), and reduction of other stressors, can reduce, but not eliminate, risks of impacts to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems due to climate change, as well as increase the inherent capacity of ecosystems and their species to adapt to a changing climate (high confidence).

But while the industry and its regulators might be focused on good management, Greenpeace argued that krill fishing is placing unnecessary pressure on sensitive ecosystems in a part of the world's oceans already greatly threatened by melting sea ice and rising ocean temperatures.

Great examples include children, freed from the task of collecting water and firewood, able to attend school and benefit from education; farmers able to support their families with improved yields due to better land management and sustainable farming practices; or the reintroduction of a locally - extinct species due to ecosystem improvement and education of local communities.

Also included was the need to enhance local and regional management practices to identify and reduce the primary drivers of high - carbon coastal system degradation, as well as the requirement to enhance international recognition of coastal carbon ecosystems.

This refers to that part of the framework convention itself that recognizes «common but differentiated» responsibilities between rich and poor countries, and also the need to promote the sustainable management of natural carbon sinks, including «biomass, forests and oceans as well as other terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems.»

For anyone interested in coastal conservation — and, more broadly, the benefits of ecosystem - based management — this documentary is well worth the watch.

Better management of fisheries, preservation of delicate mangrove ecosystems, and more detailed data are initiatives recommended by the report.

Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested in order to produce resources in the future to compensate or make the best of conditions then; this can be investment in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment in the economy in general so that more resources will be available in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.

Extending this approach to other shelf - sea models would help quantify the uncertainty in more biogeochemical simulations, a step that would ultimately improve the models» ability to inform better management of sea - shelf ecosystems, the source of more than 90 % of the world's fishing catches.

We share the vision of an open ecosystem where customers can choose the best solutions for their document management and analysis needs.»

The exhibition will present cryptocurrency exchanges, services for traders, electronic wallets, equipment and software for mining, platforms for trading and creating digital ecosystems, decentralized management systems, as well as services of companies for project promotion and legal support.

The workforce technology ecosystem is becoming increasingly crowded and complicated, and managed service programs (MSP) providers are well positioned to guide their customers through these and other workforce management challenges.

Land management and maintenance of the biodiversity and ecosystems through programs including Working on Country and the development of Indigenous Management Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous lamanagement and maintenance of the biodiversity and ecosystems through programs including Working on Country and the development of Indigenous Management Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous laManagement Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous lamanagement, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous land owners.