Sentences with phrase «ecological challenges in»

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Is not this, in brief, the challenge before all of us today, whether our interests are primarily ecological or political, whether we are Jews or Greeks, males or females, First World or Third World?

While many other ecofeminists are deeply skeptical about the environmental fallout from the Christian economy of creation and salvation, Grey sees in that economy the prophetic challenge and the inspiration to remedy the ecological crisis.

Küng's underlying thesis is essentially the same as that of the 1993 statement of the Parliament of the World's Religions, «Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration)»: In the face of multiple global challenges (political, economic, ecological), a new world order is needed.

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The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.

However, the traditional Western - Christian paradigm of nature is being challenged by new ecological models and theoretical explanations of the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categories.

Having advanced the ideal of ecological justice based on the ethical implications of the Christian tradition, the statement concludes with a challenge to the churches — one that is appropriately set in visionary terms.

Two challenges seem to loom large in the modern world including India which is in the process of modernization; one, of humanizing the technological revolution to serve the poor and protect the ecological basis of life; and the other, of building a secular state and common civil society with openness to religious insights in a situation of religious pluralism.

All too often innovations are marketed as «green» based on gains in a single metric, when the complex landscape of ecological challenges requires a holistic approach.

The long - term challenge, says marine ecologist Paul Snelgrove of Memorial University of Newfoundland, will be to continue investigating the ecological significance of the newfound organisms after the primary census is completed in 2010.

Although Christianity has seldom been recognized as an ally to the ecological movement, with the Church proving all too often too slow to meet the environmental challenge — there are many Christian theologians that contributed to and significantly participated in the early ecological thought.

Understanding how individuals resolve conflicts over contributions to, or exploitation of, common resources remains a major challenge in ecological research as well as in social sciences.

In 2004, although many people had already written Gorongosa off as a catastrophic ecological loss, former tech entrepreneur turned philanthropist Greg Carr was looking for a new challenge and turned his attention to Gorongosa.

In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro tackles to the topic of de-extinction, carefully considering the technological, ecological, and ethical challenges that such an endeavor would entail.

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«This study challenges the bottom - up bias that some scientists have — that microbes are running the show, and phytoplankton and plants are all that matter,» says Joe Roman, a whale expert in UVM's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.

While I was at Beloit, I attended a 9 - day conference that was very challenging to those who, like me, are interested in simulated ecological and biological research.

«Future challenges in Australia will be to protect a marine environment that contains growing humpback whale populations and to develop alternative approaches to ecological sustainability,» said Dr. David Johnston of Duke University USA, co-author of the study.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

Alternatively, a basic gene drive could spread protective alleles through a population in advance of an impending ecological or disease - based challenge.

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I am interested in ecological neuroscience: trying to understand the challenges of visual information processing that animals face under natural, evolution - relevant conditions.

One of the main challenges to the scientific community involved in biology conservation is to demonstrate that the loss and damage of habitats, ecological interactions and species generates a prejudice (present and future) that far exceeds the profits from the exploitation of natural resources and agricultural production.

In this series of films Presenter Stefan Gates meets people using innovative solutions to the big ecological challenges of our age.

In this guest post he uses an interesting ecological example to demonstrate how biases work and then provides educators with an exercise to help students challenge their own perceptions to better understand people and the world around them.

Recognizing Muir Woods??? Centennial Year, the Chronicle takes an in - depth look at the national monument??? s past, present, and future??? with special emphasis on the ecological complexities and challenges in the Redwood Creek watershed.

An ecological sacrifice, they face a gauntlet of challenges in order to fulfill their life's purpose

Island fox recovery is still going to be a long journey with many challenges, but... [we] are making, and will continue to make far - reaching achievements in ecological restoration and what is most important to remember is that in a world of troubling times someone, somewhere must provide a ray of hope.»

If you're a sim fan in general, I think you'll enjoy Block» hood; you're still sitting waiting for your city to generate enough money to do the next thing you want to do sometimes, but at the very least there's a challenge here to maintain some kind of ecological equilibrium... and you'll get a little bit of a moral high the next time you recycle.

In his art he tackles social, ecological and economical questions, and at an international level, Rehberger is considered one of the most challenging artists of his generation.

A major exhibition filling MoMA PS1's entire gallery space will open in 2013, highlighting artists who are reacting to the pressing questions of the 21st century with its interrelated ecological, economical, spiritual, ethnographic, political, and social challenges.

The installation piece by Adrián Villar Rojas, one module of «Expo 1: New York» curated by Triple Canopy, is presented in a larger collection of work that explores «ecological challenges» and 21st century «economic and sociopolitical instability.»

In the early days of glasnost and perestroika much of the burgeoning challenge to the Soviet system expressed itself through previously forbidden ecological activism....

It seems to me the ecological challenges presented to the human community in these early years of Century XXI are necessary matters for discussion; however, our failure to acknowledge in open discussion «the human population factor» as a primary, driving force, one that is precipitating the ecological challenges visible on the far horizon, is making our best efforts insufficient.

Paul, an investor with Spring Ventures who has invested in Solar Mosaic and helped organize the hackathon, calls the cleanweb «the most powerful lever» available today to entrepreneurs hoping to solve environmental and ecological challenges.

Clearly, India's current ecological deficit poses a clear challenge to its leaders» ability to improve the quality of life for vast segments of the population now living in poverty.

To address future challenges related to climate change and land use, it will be important to assess the local impacts of tree loss on climate, climatic and ecological consequences, as well as the mechanisms that drive ecological responses in remote teleconnected areas.

At bottom, once we look the three tons of carbon challenge in the eye, it's a straightforward matter to develop a clear plan in steps to get from our polluting and self - destructive present to a sustainable ecological future.

In contrast, when the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007In contrast, when the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007).

For instance, in Nisbet's typology, «ecological activists» such as Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein frame climate change as a product of the global capitalist system, «smart growth reformers» such as Al Gore and Nicholas Stern diagnose climate change as a market failure that can be corrected with more efficient price signals, and «ecomodernists» such as Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger believe climate change has been misdiagnosed as an environmental problem and should be reframed as a resilience and innovation challenge.

The Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) has a fun Eco-Challenge in October in which people make up personal or group challenges to reduce their waste, energy use, vehicle miles and other ways of shrinking their ecological footprints.

When the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon.

But there is no doubt that art, and in particular film, can have a profound effect on how we face our impending ecological challenges.

Concern over climate change and the ongoing challenges of managing degraded ecosystems have made the field of ecological restoration a growing focus in the agendas of national and international conservation organizations, including the United...

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