Sentences with phrase «changes of a particular region»

Works in the collection exemplify photography's intrinsic ability to document, whether by recording the social changes of a particular region or capturing moments of high emotional tenor.

Not exact matches

While the researchers found significant changes in eight brain regions, there are two regions that are of particular importance to you.

Medium - term changes, like the general opening of the market, be it the market for goods or services, in particular financial services etc, or even the labour market, all of these are accelerating the transformation of the system and the transformation of capitalism and they are having significant social consequences in all regions of the world.

He is a planner, geographer and urbanist, and his research focuses on the contemporary restructuring and retrofitting of urban regions, with a particular emphasis on the changing dynamics of race, class and segregation across space and place.

Her research has concentrated on different dimensions of regime change, with a particular emphasis on the post-communist region.

In particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past century.

Wealthier areas of sub-Saharan Africa seeing more societal changes had the highest rates of diabetes in 2015, with almost two - thirds of the region's diabetes costs coming from southern Africa (62 %, $ 12.1 billion), in particular, wealthier South Africa.

But changes in sea level and ocean currents in the ice - covered regions of the Arctic and Antarctic in particular are very difficult to detect.

«This may be of particular interest in regions where the impacts of natural and anthropogenic climate changes are felt most acutely.»

The temperature change in any particular region will in fact be a combination of radiation - related changes (through greenhouse gases, aerosols, ozone and the like) and dynamical effects.

An approach called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), for example, records changes in blood flow that occur when a spark of activity passes through a particular brain region.

The amount of rainfall during the past 24,000 years seems to be linked to the level of exposure of the Sunda Shelf and in particular to the specific topography of the western edge of the region, rather than to changes in deglacial climate boundary conditions alone.

When muscles are lengthened or shortened, this seems to alter the cross-sectional area of the muscle fiber, which probably changes muscle conduction velocity (Kamen & Caldwell, 1996) and may also change the geometry of the particular region of the muscle being measured during the muscle action.

In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long - term pl...

Japan remains one of our preferred regions and this particular fund seeks to benefit from the economic, demographic and structural changes that the country is continuing to face.

Of course, as we frequently remind readers on this site, changes in one particular region do not necessarily translate to worldwide trends.

As reported in BEA13, through collaboration with our Russian colleagues who have extensive knowledge of tree - rings in this region, we have learnt that the Khadyta River site has problems related to the particular site conditions that differ from other sites in this region, and maybe influenced by changing permafrost.

The black smoke from such stoves also could be contributing to the melting of Himalayan snow and, by absorbing sunlight, can add local warming to whatever comes in a particular region from climate change.

The results show that when considering climate change over the next 20 - 30 years, taking into account the influence of short - lived pollutants dramatically changes the relative benefit of emissions reductions from a particular activity or region.

This analytical document presents some of the potential impacts of the different manifestations of climate change on transport networks, paying particular emphasis identifying issues pertinent to transport infrastructure in the ECE region and taking into account the different modes of transportation.

Climate modelling results have pointed to high - latitude regions as areas of particular importance and ecological vulnerability to global climate change.

It illustrates that there are regions all over the Earth where the heat, mass, and volume flows have not been studied, and how there isn't sufficient knowledge to predict how any of the flows will change, or how any particular part of the climate system will change.

(I have always been careful to note that, scientifically, we can not say that climate change caused a particular drought, but only that it is expected to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of drought in some regions, and that such changes are being observed.)

Both of these studies appear to rely on cherrypicked data from regions with many peculiarities (a little less so in the latter case); it is a huge leap to isolate one particular causative factor out of many possible ones (such as urban development, drainage of swamps, deforestation, etc.) and attribute some climate factor change to that cause.

«This is one of the better - understood dimensions of the relationship between global climate change and extreme weather in particular regions.»

It implied transient variations of wind patterns within broad limits, and mostly concerned how weather might change in a particular region.

South Asia on a whole and Pakistan in particular once again had to face climate change debacle in the form of heavy floods across the region which not only resulted in loss of lives but also catastrophic damages [continue reading...]

While our focus here is on national assessments, and in the United States in particular, the project of improving such assessments is an international one, with parallel efforts in other countries or regions (e.g. UK Committee on Climate Change 2017, California's four Climate Change Assessments12); the need for peer learning between respective efforts is critical and often overlooked.

Relatively abrupt changes in the climate of a particular location may be driven not by abrupt changes in the atmospheric circulation, but rather by otherwise slowly evolving changes in the circulation in regions of large horizontal gradients in surface weather.

... After adjusting for patterns of development, over the long term there is no climate change signal... of increasing damage from extreme events either globally or in particular regions.

In particular, it reviews the main challenges faced by the countries of the region in their quest for sustainable development, with a focus on emerging trends related to increasing demands for infrastructure development, energy supply, and commodity exports, as well as opportunities offered by the global response to climate change.

The latitudinal thermal gradient over the continental shelf in this region is extremely steep, and thus is of particular interest for monitoring biodiversity changes in a warming climate.

And while the scientists could not attribute the intensity of this particular heat wave to climate change, they found that extreme heat waves are likely to become increasingly frequent in the region in coming decades.

(I have always been careful to note that, scientifically, we can not say that climate change caused a particular drought, but only that it is expected to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of drought in some regions — and that such changes are being observed.)»

Having downplayed some of the more troubling elements of the scientific consensus — and simply dismissed the possibility of more dramatic changes that are currently being debated — Lomborg then seizes on one item in the WMO statement in particular — «The recent increase in societal impact from tropical cyclones has been largely caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions» — and runs with it.

When you strip away the rhetoric, the experts know little about the future severity of climate change and even less about the future physical impact in particular countries or regions.

These changes result in an adaptation of our practice in terms of strategy, for example, the need to start a business before applying for residency, a particular region that has adapted this is Wallonia, whereas Brussels clearly became a place to avoid.

Whether a particular country or region is considered safe could change from the time the plans are made to the time of the actual trip.