Sentences with phrase «ecological challenges of»

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

Not exact matches

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.

At the close of the twentieth century, with ecological deterioration accelerating and the nuclear threat ever with us, we need to feel not acceptance but the challenge to join forces on the side of life, for while we, like all creatures, are ultimately part of a universe that is brutal and may well end, we have, while we live, a part to play different from that of any other creature: we are responsible agents who can join with our loving parent to help our own and other species to survive and flourish.

The seriousness of the ecological crisis creates major new theological challenges.

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.

From an ecological horizon of interpretation, this must challenge the hearer about the understanding of even the most insignificant feature of the interconnectedness of the whole earth community.

To challenge this extension of the paradigm to new fields, there has arisen, largely outside of economics departments, an international society for ecological economics.

In times of population stressors (lack of food, ecological challenges, etc.) the rate of males in a species born gay increases.

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 categorieof 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 categorieof 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 categorieof 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 categorieof 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 categorieof 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 categorieof 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 categorieOf 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 categorieof Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof 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.

«We are convinced that there can be no sincere and enduring resolution to the challenge of the ecological crisis and climate change unless the response is concerted and collective, unless the responsibility is shared and accountable, unless we give priority to solidarity and service.»

We turn also to the power of a religious naturalism that emphasizes both the continuing transcendence of challenging ideals and the relative transcendence of surpassing resources to give us the challenge and the empowerment to undergo the drastic paradigm shifts which may be needed as we face our exponentially worsening ecological crisis.

The ecological perspective has also challenged our notion of ethics.

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 South Korean Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Woon - Ki Lyeo, has reaffirmed his government's intention to help confront the challenges facing the people of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) ecological zone.

«You have a lot of closely related species with these diverse ecological challenges and different social systems,» she says.

They show that tarantulas evolved profoundly and rapidly to adapt to ecological challenges — unlike such living fossils as horseshoe crabs, which have remained unchanged for millions of years.

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.

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.

A new article addresses the ecological and ethical challenges stemming from the question of what effects the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology will have on the conservation of nature.

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.

It is not enough to produce more food; we must also simultaneously stabilize the global population and reduce the ecological consequences of food production — a triple challenge.

«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.

Fanged frogs present an even more exciting challenge, he says, because their diversification likely was influenced not only by the dynamic tectonics of Sulawesi, but also by adaptive radiation via ecological diversification.

Since much of Beringia, theorized to have been located generally between northwest North America and northeastern Asia, has been under water for more than 10,000 years, it has been challenging to find archaeological and ecological evidence for this «deep history,» as Sicoli calls it.

«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.

«Birds are ideally suited for such a test, as they are one of the only groups of animals for which the relationship between large brains and enhanced behavioural response to ecological challenges is best understood.

She teaches a variety of undergraduate courses, including Environmental and Molecular Analysis of Disease, Ecological Analysis with GIS, and Where the City Meets the Sea, where students are challenged to develop research questions, collect data and communicate their scientific findings.

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

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.

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.

; 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.»

The left - leaning Guardian newspaper of Britain has put the Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg — anathema to many environmental scientists and campaigners for challenging projections of ecological doom — on a list of «50 People Who Could Save the Planet» with the Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the movie star and environmental filmmaker Leonardo DiCaprio, and NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt.

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

The basics of global warming science remain robust — more greenhouse gases will continue to heat the planet, erode ice, raise seas and present challenges to many human and ecological communities.

An equally central challenge, that is not going to be touched upon by many politician for a long time yet, is that of a world population exploding while all sorts of human driven ecological devastation is taking place at the same time.

It challenges a longstanding model of the Arctic ecological response to global warming.

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.

However, defining the ecological reach of a particular energy production site can be a challenge.

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.

13 September, 2017 — Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew appeal for urgent global response to the «challenge of the ecological crisis and climate change».