Sentences with phrase «ecological context of»

The internal structure and ecological context of coparenting: A framework for research and intervention.

In a family - centred approach to services, assessment and treatment are guided by the ecological context of the family, incorporating information about formal and informal community supports (Winters and Metz 2009; Winters and Pumariega 2007).

The paper crosses disciplinary boundaries by explicitly exploring how the ecological context of a population shapes the evolutionary pressures it experiences.

«We also need to think about the surrounding ecological context of the evolutionary process.»

According to the study, the ecological context of the birds» habitat in Barcelona — a highly urbanised and industrialised area — can increase exposure to lead.

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

Not exact matches

In the context of considering the NGP's economic burdens and benefits (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.4.4), the JRP noted that the concept of «ecological goods and services» was described during the hearing but that, based on the hearing record, the estimated costs for damages to ecosystem goods and services were not well quantified and based on a methodology that is not currently broadly accepted.

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

in human life in a given social and ecological context, becomes the locus of the parabolic teaching of Jesus.

It is interesting to note in this context that family therapy broke out of purely intrapsychic relations into wider systems of relationships that characterize and condition us all; and now we see the more recent birth of «ecological» therapy, where the concern broadens to include human relationships to the fullest extent possible (see FFT 256ff.).

In particular, the basic ecological realities of today and tomorrow require us to think in terms of a «world - man image» in the context of a planetary society.

The gradual and progressive appearance of order is an apt description of development, most appropriately viewed in an ecological context.

His merit is to avoid narrow concepts and to refrain from making the antagonisms under which he himself had to suffer by the center of his theology.22 Looking at his dealing with ecological issues it becomes clear that Boff is not fixed on his context but willing to take up issues from outside and translate them into his context.

Each particular part is defined by and dependent on the total context».42 In this ecological view of a nature which includes human beings, nothing is wholly self - subsistent.

A new mindset is needed, one that locates food production in the wider ecological and social context and involves consideration of how the affluent can reduce their demands for food.

It does not make sense to the Menominee to think of animals as divorced from their ecological contexts, Waxman says.

These results show how similar ecological contexts can result in the repeated evolution of highly adaptive strategies across species and regions.

Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across different ecological contexts.

The research illustrates the context - dependent ecological role of sheephead in Southern California kelp forests.

According to Dr. Biju Kumar, one of the study's authors, the discovery of this crab is very important in the context of conservation of the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotpot as they can serve as ecological indicators, reflecting the health of the ecosystem.

Although an evolutionary innovation can open up new ecological niches, traits which are essentially beneficial can put species at a disadvantage in the context of rapid environmental changes.

In the future, the understanding of this interaction between two brains would allow for the comprehension and analysis of very complex aspects of the fields of psychology, sociology, psychiatry, or education, using the neural images within an ecological or real - world context.

2) the nutrient energy - dependent polycombic ecological adaptations that link ecological variation to the physiology of pheromone - controlled reproduction in the context of autophagy and chromosomal rearrangements linked to all biodiversity via amino acid substitutions in cell types.

We know intuitively that the nature and form of natural selection changes with ecological context, but how it changes is rarely studied explicitly.

Framing ecological adaptations manifested in morphological and behavioral phenotypes of species from microbes to man in the context of evolution should be detered by experimental evidence of ecological speciation that is nutrient - dependent and pheromone - controlled.

In this context, we aim to explore the impact of policy instruments — in particular risk - coping mechanisms, environment - related policies and land use policies — on the social - ecological resilience of smallholders.

These impairments hold ecological relevance, particularly in contexts in which precise disambiguation of complex socio - emotional cues is critical but insufficient sleep is prevalent; for example, in members of the military, emergency service personnel, medical professionals, and new parents.

No other film, however, has examined the dissolution of the human self as closely or in the same specific ecological context as Annihilation.

While it focuses more on the social and ecological impact on the lives it follows, the story wouldn't exist without the context of the political situation that brought these Frenchmen onto North American soil.

«Some conservationists claim that cats are the single largest threat to biodiversity regardless of ecological context,» Linn continued.

Still, some conservationists claim that cats are the single largest threat to biodiversity regardless of ecological context.

The Repellent Fence is a monumental, site - specific installation that examines the cultural, political, economic and ecological issues of indigenous migration within the context of -LSB-...]

The Repellent Fence is a monumental, site - specific installation that examines the cultural, political, economic and ecological issues of indigenous migration within the context of the Tohono O'odham Nation located in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico.

I've had a great time learning from, and sometimes debating with, two smart people with very different areas of expertise and vantage points: the blogging meteorologist Eric Holthaus and Jacquelyn Gill, who studies past climates in the context of ecological change.

Main sustainable development activities include organic agriculture and green tourism on the Desna river as well educational activities developed in the context of the «Desnianski Zori» ecological camp for schoolchildren.

And while ecological problems in the context of a vast coherent economy are not new — Rome knew them, IIRC — the scale is unprecedented.

But, you also might be like many of us who have found that ecological - and socially - conscious living can be surprisingly more difficult in rural communities than in urban contexts.

In this context of hyper growth and accelerated urbanism, the Asian Cairns project fights for the construction of an urban multifunctional, multicultural and ecological pole.

• Promote reform of industrial agriculture to agro-ecological systems such as permaculture, within the context of protecting and restoring adequate terrestrial systems necessary to maintain biodiversity, ecosystems and achieve global ecological sustainability.

In their Perspective in this issue of PLOS Biology, Blomqvist et al. [1] set out to demonstrate that «Ecological Footprint measurements, as currently constructed, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context.»

They all emphasize that global security is now a matter of interconnections both ecological and technological; the Anthropocene is an increasingly artificial context.

For example, they commented that Schweingruber's collections were largely based on a couple of campaigns in which they flew into sites for a couple of days, cored trees and flew off to the next site, without any ecological context.

Technologically, a comprehensive and economic series of changes are available to transform the self - destructive industrial present to make economic growth men ecological improvement in the context of a global pursuit of social and ecological justice.

I'm used to using PCA in an ecological context with a multivariate dataset where you might have all sorts of different types of data like various species abundances, and you plot PC1 vs PC2 to look at how different communities fall out.

This framework also shows climate change in a greater context — one which unites all of the ecological threats we face today.

Currently, monitoring is taking place in a variety of contexts, and some data - sharing and uniformity of data sharing is emerging with efforts such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).23 But in general different things are being monitored in different ecosystems, and there is little coordination among different groups.

An important key to success will be developing the capacity to incorporate climate change information into adaptation in the context of other important technological, social, economic and ecological trends.

Johnstone, J. A., and T. E. Dawson (2010), Climatic context and ecological implications of summer fog decline in the coast redwood region, Proc.

In this context, UNEP - Environment's functional definition of a green economy, without reference to growth, is an economy that translates into «improved human well - being and social equity, environmental risks and ecological shortages.

In the context of ecological sustainability, after all, passive construction is the opposite of apathetic — it's an aggressive, conscientious effort to battle the planet's energy problems from the ground up.