Sentences with phrase «definitional issues»

Confidence is limited because of definitional issues regarding how to classify and measure a drought, a lack of observational data and the inability of models to include all the factors that influence droughts.

This technical document provides background on definitional issues related to reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries.

Still, most organisations will choose for a wider rule, covering any belief that might upset anyone, but leading to possible definitional issues: what is a manifestation of a particular philosophy?

The CJEU handed down an important judgment two weeks ago on EU water policy which concerns a number of interesting definitional issues as well as the more general issue of legal effects of directives prior to their transposition deadline.

Keep in mind, there are policy definitional issues, state law issues and judicial interpretations that may apply to the dates stated in your life insurance policy and how coverage is applied.

Having spent much of the past decade teaching lawyers around the world to manage their projects, I've come «round to a different — and I believe clearer — way to frame that definitional issue: What does success look like?

«Once you get into these definitional issues, you can see the delay and friction that will be put into the program,» he said.

To be fair, most advocates of CDR acknowledge the need for more careful testing, and argue rather that the definitional issue is preventing this necessary task; but there are also boosters out there who talk as if they have a silver bullet for climate change already in the chamber.

(a) Scientific, socio - economic, technical, and methodological issues, including the role of forests, in particular tropical forests, in the global carbon cycle; definitional issues, including those relating to links between deforestation and degradation; data availability and quality; scale; rates and drivers of deforestation; estimation of changes in carbon stocks and forest cover; and related uncertainties;

Having spent much of the past decade teaching lawyers around the world to manage their projects, I've come «round to a different — and I believe clearer — way to frame that definitional issue: What does success look like?

Some explanations are related to definitional issues; others are related to what people think is best for the students involved (Kauffman, 1999; Walker et al., 2001).

We turn now to definitional issues that are instructive to the goal of improving measurement of the monitoring construct.