Sentences with phrase «ecological complexities of»

To effectively respond to the effects of climate change, water management systems will need to take into account the social, economic, and ecological complexities of the region.

Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security explains that changes in the availability of water resources could play an increasing role in political tensions, especially if existing water management institutions do not better account for the social, economic, and ecological complexities of the region.

«Gardens can improve the ecological complexity of the schoolyard in ways that promote effective experiential learning in many subject areas, particularly the areas of science, environmental education, and food education.»

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«We expect that a closer look at ant - other arthropod relationships will yield numerous examples similar to ours and provide a better understanding of the complexities of microhabitat choice and its ecological ramifications.»

Whether he is recounting the relationship between fungi, vole faeces and fir - tree regeneration, or the complexities of fire dynamics, it is, Pastor says, natural observation, those backstories and the painstaking work of recording that are the keys to the storehouse of ecological knowledge.

While facial complexity was related to social variables, such as group size and the number of closely related species in the same habitat, facial pigmentation was best explained by ecological and spatial factors.

Abstract: Contemporary sustainability science and practice must embrace the complexity of social - ecological systems and capitalize on the lessons learned from the recent theoretical and applied a

What this latest report now shows is the degree of fine - tuning that is possible after ecological, social, neurogenic, and socio - cognitive niche construction has already occurred — and resulted in the nutrient - dependent pheromone - controlled increased organismal complexity that is us.

He began focusing his research on the interactions between wildlife and people in the Indian Himalayas; producing several landmark research papers on the complexities and ecological impacts of human natural resource use and conflicts throughout his career.

As part of Marfa Dialogues / Houston, Lucky Dragons, an experimental music group from Los Angeles, will perform a site - specific work that features a collaboration with Houston - based vocalists, arranged alongside an array of environmental field recordings and live electronics; a composition that lyrically speaks to biodiversity, human ecological impact and climate change as a loss of complexity in a moment of transition.

Dr. Soon's research has appeared many times in peer - reviewed journals, including: Climate Research; Progress in Physical Geography; Energy & Environment; Geophysical Research Letters; Ecological Complexity; International Journal of Forecasting; Science and Education, and others.

Almost a year after that paper's publication, a group of polar bear biologists including Stirling and Derocher published a response in Ecological Complexity.

This is the first of three articles on understanding complexity, and how our energy, economic and ecological systems, like unruly children, tend to defy our attempts to change them.

Learning to deal with the complexity of modern life, thinking about ecological alternatives that are balanced with the environment is our biggest challenge,» says Naresh Ramchandani, co-founder of The Green Thing.

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 1.7.2007).

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.

One of Soon's polar bear papers, published in 2007 in the peer - reviewed scientific journal Ecological Complexity, focused on this population.