Sentences with phrase «ecological networks in»

In the new study, Kharrazi and researchers at IIASA applied an approach first developed to study ecological networks in order to better understand the dynamics and properties of the global commodity trade system.

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In Theology in a Nuclear Age he writes that theology must redefine God as «the unifying symbol of those powers and dimensions of the ecological and historical feedback network» sustaining the fragile web of lifIn Theology in a Nuclear Age he writes that theology must redefine God as «the unifying symbol of those powers and dimensions of the ecological and historical feedback network» sustaining the fragile web of lifin a Nuclear Age he writes that theology must redefine God as «the unifying symbol of those powers and dimensions of the ecological and historical feedback network» sustaining the fragile web of life.

It could also be called ecological in that it starts from a network of relationships between interdependent beings, rather than from separate beings or dialogic pairs.

IFOAM - Organics International, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Mekelle University in Ethiopia, the Ecological Organic Agricultural Initiative (EOAI), and the African Organic Network (AfrOnet) organized a three day conference on the 23rd to the 26th November 2016, entitled «Changing Food Systems in Africa: Agroecology and Food... more

The event takes place from February 1 — 4, 2012, and is the largest ecological agricultural gathering in the West, offering more than 60 workshops, and a comprehensive array of educational and networking sessions for 1,500 farmers, marketers, activists, consumers, students, and educators.

Maine EPSCoR Assessment and Guidance On March 12th, RCP completed an assessment of the University of Maine's Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET)- a statewide effort to develop a transdisciplinary understanding of how social - environmental systems (SES) interact with sustainable ecological aquaculture (SEA) in Maine's coastal communities and eEcological Aquaculture Network (SEANET)- a statewide effort to develop a transdisciplinary understanding of how social - environmental systems (SES) interact with sustainable ecological aquaculture (SEA) in Maine's coastal communities and eecological aquaculture (SEA) in Maine's coastal communities and ecosystems.

That is more ambitious and potentially more scientifically fruitful than the previous such foundation project — the Long Term Ecological Research Network begun in 1980 — which largely answered specific questions about impacts in a specific region, albeit in a way that failed to allow comparisons with other sites.

A new network of observatories aims to take ecological science to the continental scale in the next 30 years.

Variation in insect diet has implications for numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, including effects of environmental disturbance, the stability of networks of interacting species and the top - down effects of predators being controlled by the level of herbivore diet specialization.

The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.

Because we share similar ecological networks, truly individualized or personalized therapies, which consider not only the unique microbial state of an individual but also the unique dynamics of the underlying microbial ecosystem, may not be needed in order to shape the healthy microbiome.»

«Private - public partnerships are going to be a hallmark of how more research is done in the future and this is a great model to see that in action,» says Kevin Rose, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, who is active in the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network.

Like all animal and plant species both are part of complex ecological networks, in which interacting species are interlinked.

Environmental «noise» is a key evolutionary pressure that shapes the interconnections within cells, as well as those of neural networks and bacterial / ecological networks, they observe in a paper to be published online April 30 by the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coEcological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

«We visited six or seven offices,» said first - time participant Hongyan Luo, a biometeorologist with the National Ecological Observatory Network in Boulder, Colorado.

Incorporated as an LTER site in 1980, Andrews Forest was one of the founding sites in NSF's national network of ecological research sites.

The Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network is a grassroots network of more than 600 members in 50 + countries conducting innovative science to understand, predict, and communicate the role and response of lakes in a changing global envirNetwork is a grassroots network of more than 600 members in 50 + countries conducting innovative science to understand, predict, and communicate the role and response of lakes in a changing global envirnetwork of more than 600 members in 50 + countries conducting innovative science to understand, predict, and communicate the role and response of lakes in a changing global environment.

Introducing NEON: The National Ecological Observatory Network was created to understand and forecast the impacts of climate change, land use change, and invasive species on continental - scale ecology by providing an observational infrastructure to support research, education, and environmental management in these areas.

Bio: Dr. David Schimel is the Chief Science Officer and Principal Investigator of the National Ecological Observatory Network in Boulder, Colo..

The network motif concept can be used to identify important functional building blocks in social, ecological, and economic networks.

In an interview at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), Dr. David Schimel, chief science officer and principal investigator at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), explains why math is essential in environmental biology and why it matters to the work of NEOIn an interview at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), Dr. David Schimel, chief science officer and principal investigator at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), explains why math is essential in environmental biology and why it matters to the work of NEOin environmental biology and why it matters to the work of NEON.

According to Daycha Siripatra of the Alternative Agriculture Network in Thailand and the director of Technology for Rural and Ecological Enrichment, vitamin A deficiency will not be solved by golden rice technology since it does not address the key to the problem of poverty, which is landlessness.

In an interview at NIMBioS, Dr. David Schimel, chief science officer and principal investigator at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), explains why math is essential in environmental biology and why it matters to the work of NEOIn an interview at NIMBioS, Dr. David Schimel, chief science officer and principal investigator at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), explains why math is essential in environmental biology and why it matters to the work of NEOin environmental biology and why it matters to the work of NEON.

I believe the whole SINGEK network will push forward this technology in protists, allowing addressing new biological (mostly ecological and evolutionary) questions.

Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].

What is needed is a vision of a networked system of decentralized, community based, sustainable economies in a diversity of settings, which stands on a foundation of ecological integrity, social accountability and an economically equitable distribution.

In the last few decades NEC has helped to steer the growth of technology in the education environment with display solutions that bring visual accuracy, interactivity, engagement and enviable performance to the curriculum, backed by a service and support network to trust and ecological standardIn the last few decades NEC has helped to steer the growth of technology in the education environment with display solutions that bring visual accuracy, interactivity, engagement and enviable performance to the curriculum, backed by a service and support network to trust and ecological standardin the education environment with display solutions that bring visual accuracy, interactivity, engagement and enviable performance to the curriculum, backed by a service and support network to trust and ecological standards.

AppliedTrust provides IT security and network / systems infrastructure consulting services that help our clients maximize their IT investment in the areas of security, performance, and availability, while reducing cost and ecological impact.

She got in touch with Terreform ONE [Open Network Ecology], a non profit architecture group for smart city design, ecological planning and public art based in New York City and began planning a design exhibition with the designers there.

Nadim Samman — general curator of the biennial — suggests the theme reflects, like the work submitted to the open call, such cultural developments as «ecological collapse, the dissolution of distinctions between «nature» and technology, the inescapable topography of the network, and the interplay between transparency and opacity in the information age.»

Xinran Yuan: Without gaining more awareness about this state of being together, we're going to continue with our self - entitlement, claiming certain hierarchies in the ecological network, while unaware of our act of occupation.

Human induced trend has two components, namely (a) greenhouse effect [this includes global and local / regional component] and (b) non-greenhouse effect [local / regional component]-- according to IPCC (a) is more than half of global average temperature anomaly wherein it also includes component of volcanic activities, etc that comes under greenhouse effect; and (b) contribution is less than half — ecological changes component but this is biased positive side by urban - heat - island effect component as the met network are concentrated in urban areas and rural - cold - island effect is biased negative side as the met stations are sparsely distributed though rural area is more than double to urban area.

Built in June by Dr. Henry Loescher, the tower, located high on a ridge overlooking the Trans - Alaska Pipeline and Dalton Highway, is collecting data on prevailing wind directions and annual temperature variations that are crucial for the design and construction of a National Ecological Observatory Network research site.

«Global Footprint Network has extensive experience in measuring ecological risks at the country level, specifically as it relates to their incorporation into sovereign bond investments and credit ratings.»

Mora also underscored our joint efforts, saying, «[the MOU with Global Footprint Network] isn't simply to carry out scientific studies on Nariño's Ecological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainabEcological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainabecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainable.»

The subsecretary of Environmental Management and Green Growth of Nariño, Ricardo Mora, reached out to Global Footprint Network for technical support about using the Ecological Footprint and other sustainability metrics to advance strategic initiatives in the Nariño province.

M. Davis et al., «New England — Acadian Forests,» in Taylor H. Ricketts et al., eds., Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999); David R. Foster, «Harvard Forest: Addressing Major Issues in Policy Debates and in the Understanding of Ecosystem Process and Pattern,» LTER Network News: The Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Network, spring / summer 1996; U.S. Forest Service, «2006 Forest Health Highlights,» various state sheets, at fhm.fs.fed.us, viewed 2 August 2007.

The Global Footprint Network (GFN) has developed the concepts of biocapacity — the amount of land available to provide for human needs, and ecological footprint — the land needed to satisfy the consumption of different nations in a sustainable manner, including the biological capacity to absorb and mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions that lead to global warming.

Global Footprint Network's most recent accounts reveal that Earth's biocapacity in 2008 was 12 billion hectares (ha) compared to humanity's Footprint of 18.2 billion ha, and that the average Ecological Footprint had reached 2.7 global hectares (gha) per capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per capita [5].

Prior to working with NIDIS, Kat worked at the National Ecological Observatory Network developing web and print communication resources and improving the usability of online interactive data visualization tools in conjunction with staff from the National Geographic Society's FieldScope Program.

Kirsten Balding at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is a huge advocate of using Global Footprint Network's Ecological Footprint calculator to teach students about sustainability.

Times News Network: Himachal Pradesh has embarked on the path of green growth and sustainable development, keeping in view its location in the fragile western Himalayan region and the need to undertake development without disturbing the delicate ecological balance.This was stated by Himachal Pradesh chief secretary P Mitra while addressing a brainstorming session on «Green growth [continue reading...]

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.

Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international campaigns with a shared vision for social and environmental justice.

The project divided the mainland U.S. into the 18 regions used in the National Ecological Observatory Network.

According to the most recent data from the Global Footprint Network, humanity as a whole is currently in ecological overshoot, demanding one and a half planets» worth of Earth's biocapacity.

Then, the idea of Ecological Footprints emerges, co-developed first by Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and co-founder of Global Footprint Network, in order to reveal what individuals, businesses, cities, and countries demand from nature and highlight the role of governments in managing our natural capital more wisely to ensure all live well, within the means of our planet.

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.

Global Footprint Network An organization raising awareness of Earth's current level of ecological overshoot by using ecological footprint data in planning in all public and private enterprise.