Sentences with phrase «debate over our resources»

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As the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee prepares to consider new legislation that would open a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to energy development, long - time players in the debate over Alaskan energy production are explaining why now is the time to unlock critical resources in thResources Committee prepares to consider new legislation that would open a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to energy development, long - time players in the debate over Alaskan energy production are explaining why now is the time to unlock critical resources in thresources in the region.

The debate over aluminum's future in the United States comes after 20 years of China flooding the global market with the natural resource, depressing prices to a level where few U.S. companies can compete.

It comes over in all the modern debates — economic development and resources, use of environment, pollution, population, the «doomsday» debates.

One cost often neglected in the debate over recombinant DNA research concerns the allocation of scarce resources that might be used otherwise.

Mr Joyce's speech at the annual Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics in Canberra on Tuesday comes amid fierce debate over foreign investment in Australian farms after the sale of the Van Diemen's Land Company to Chinese company Moon Lake Investments.

The debate over the «Raise The Age» legislation centered in large part around shifting cases involving teens to the family court system, which some lawmakers worried was overburdened and in need of more resources to begin with.

The debate got most heated over a bill to create a «Guardians for Schools» license plate to raise money to help pay for school resource officers.

ABSTRACT: Debates over scientists» appropriate contributions to policy - making are prominent in a variety of natural resources fields.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources (e.g. organ donation, health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

Krueger remembers a popular debate among social psychologists over which metaphor best drives home the depth of the mind's failings: Should researchers view the mind as a «cognitive miser,» emphasizing our limited resources and reliance on irrelevant clues, or is the mind more accurately depicted as a «totalitarian ego,» pursuing self - esteem at the cost of self - deception?

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

And in this and other developments, according to school - finance experts, research findings on effective schools are reopening an old debate over the extent to which money and resources affect student achievement.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

One of the great achievement - gap debates is whether white students are being favored over black students inside the school walls, or whether education administrators are steering better teachers and more resources to white schools.

The debate over the direction we follow will involve a substantial commitment of resources and will therefore be a highly political struggle.

This is not the end, but the beginning of debates over where the resources of the US go, and how much is extracted from the populace.

Yet the link between power generation and water use has been virtually ignored in the debate over how to fairly allocate the region's water resources and plan for growth.

There's an interesting ongoing debate over Japan's efforts to produce offshore methane hydrate resources.

The debate over APS's RFP is one example of how clean energy advocates are pressuring utilities to alter their procurement practices and open them up to more public scrutiny as renewable resources and storage become increasingly competitive with conventional generation.

For now, Thomsen's vision for Nevada's cleaner electrical future includes developing geothermal resources alongside solar and wind resources, and continue debates over how to value emerging technologies.

Caleb Stevens of World Resources Insitute said that there's debate among land tenure experts over whether or not perpetual land rights are necessary to get the desired results of protected forests.

Until now, the dispute over who could rightly claim the Arctic's resources had boiled down to an arcane debate over which of the five nations» continental shelves were connected to the region's undersea mountain ranges.

To: Kelvin Vaughan OK, I read the 4th paragraph, which says: «There is much debate worldwide over natural resource allocations, this is partly due to increasing scarcity (depletion of resources) but also because the exportation of natural resources is the basis for many economies (particularly for developed nations such as Australia).»

When it comes to these resources, however, there's often debate over which platform is the best use of limited time and resources.

Breaking Ground: Chinese Investment in U.S. Real Estate provides a necessary resource for any investor, builder, financier, or service provider looking to stay ahead of this fast - moving trend, while also providing common ground for the broader debate, too often ideological and acrimonious, over U.S - China trade and investment.